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MISMANAGEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL SHORTAGE
3Nov By AdminNo Comments
Main Story

MISMANAGEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL SHORTAGE

Request for proposal gives 4 days to supply 85,000 Barrels of fuel Highlights painful mismanagement When it comes to fuel shortages, one of the reasons you’ll hear in just about every news report or conversation is “supply and demand.” There will be a main cause—such as weather or political unrest in foreign nations—but there is much more to it than that in Sri Lanka. So it appears. Mismanagement on the part of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) appears to be the most likely scenario why there ‘appears’ to be a fuel shortage. The operative word is ‘appears’. Sri Lanka is not at war, there are no known shipping strikes in the region, supplies of fuel is unaffected by trouble in the producing regions and so from a fuel supply and transport point of view there are little challenges ...
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ONE BIG LET DOWN
30Oct By AdminNo Comments
Editorial

ONE BIG LET DOWN

We at the Ceylon Independent take matters relating to the public interest pretty seriously. We believe that corruption has no place in democracy and we verily aver that all liberal thinkers in Sri Lanka share this perspective. In essence we believe too, that there are no mitigating circumstances when elected officials make a premeditated departure from these honourable ideals, impacting directly on the greater public interest. And it follows that, we have no time to cover up for the poor performance of officials who dance the merry jig after carrying out the most spectacular daylight heist this country has known - since we were freed from the shackles of imperialistic colonial invaders, in 1948. In January 2015 - what now turns out to be a gullible public- voted Mahinda Rajapaksa out pr...
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