The End of Untracked Ownership: Why Revenue Licences Now Require a Taxpayer Identification Number
Starting November 1, obtaining or renewing a vehicle revenue licence across Sri Lanka comes with a strict prerequisite: no Taxpayer…
Category: EDITORIAL
323 Containers and a Question Customs Cannot Afford to Leave Unanswered
Parliament’s investigation into the release of 323 containers has been given additional time. The controversy is not simply about whether…
Political Victims or Unaccounted Millions? The Rajapaksa Paper Trail
A court rejects Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s overseas travel application over a technical discrepancy. But beyond procedural arguments lies a larger question:…
The Government Has the Numbers. But Does It Have the Results?
Sri Lanka’s Government possesses one of the strongest parliamentary majorities in the country’s democratic history. Two years after the presidential…
What Ails France? When Governments Stop Listening, the Streets Begin Speaking.
France’s latest upheaval is about considerably more than inflation, policing or President Emmanuel Macron. It concerns the widening distance between…
The People Did Not Vote for More Arrest Warrants. They Voted for Justice
Sri Lanka has no shortage of investigations, arrests, court appearances and allegations of corruption. What remains in desperately short supply…
Chamara Sampath Arrested and Remanded. Rs. 8.1 Million in Alleged Bribes and Another Test for the Justice System.
Badulla District Parliamentarian Chamara Sampath Dassanayake has been remanded until 23 October following his arrest by the Commission to Investigate…
The Law Is Not a Spectacle. Justice Is Not a Public Execution
Sri Lanka is witnessing an extraordinary period in which individuals once regarded as politically untouchable are being investigated, arrested and…
The People Did Not Vote to Change the Prisoners. They Voted to Change the Country
Sri Lanka’s democratic transformation cannot be measured exclusively by the number of powerful individuals appearing before courts. The real test…
The Horror of Human Badness. The Greatness of Humanity. Which One Defines Us?
Sri Lanka has become accustomed to the spectacle of wrongdoing, from corruption and cruelty to political arrogance and the abuse…
