Sunday, July 17, 2011
Chapter VII, Article 38 (2, a): Any Member of Parliament may, by a writing addressed to the Speaker, give notice of a resolution alleging that the President is permanently incapable of discharging the functions of his office by reason of mental or physical infirmity or that the President has been guilty of: Parliament
(ii) treason
(iii) bribery
(iv) misconduct or corruption involving the abuse of the powers of his office, or
(v) any offence under any law, involving moral turpitude, and setting out full particulars of the allegation or allegations made and seeking an inquiry and report thereon by the Supreme Court.” (From the 1978 Constitution) Read More »
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“Bemusement” Is The Word!
Sunday, July 17, 2011The current regime has put all its eggs in one basket, The Southern Sinhala chauvinist one.
As someone who was born in this country before World War II and who regretted, as a school-going child, the arrival of independence in 1948 because my birthday ceased to be a public holiday (“Empire Day” in what was then Ceylon and “Victoria Day” in other parts of the “white” British Empire), what I have seen unfold while living here – up to 1973 – and then from half way across the world and then right back here, at first hand once again, on the shores of Serendib, has been nothing short of “bemusing.” If I might pause here to refresh the reader’s memory (and take a long breath after that inordinately long and convoluted opening sentence!), my dog-eared copy of a Chambers Dictionary defines it as, “putting in confusion, stupefying.” And I’d assume that, by virtue of the manner in which that term continues to be used, that its interpretation has not changed to any marked degree in the intervening years.
Given that long preamble, I suppose the reader of this column could justifiably ask that I cut to the chase and get on with saying my piece! Full Story>>>
