AG’s dept. advises police to stop media hypes, do duty properly!

 Wednesday, 28 January 2015 

A senior official of the attorney general’s department has advised the police department that corruption, frauds and murders committed during the Rajapaksa regime would never be proven before the law if it stages media hypes, instead of investigating on the basis of accepted legal principles.

Speaking to a group of senior policemen, the official has noted that only those guilty in the Embilipitiya students murder case had been punished in investigations by the Chandrika regime that came to power in 1994.

The superior court has invalidated the findings of several presidential commissions of inquiry, and officials accused before these commissions – Army commander Lionel Balagalla and IGP Chandra Fernando – had later been appointed as ministry secretaries, all of which should never be forgotten, he said.

Already, the floating armoury issue has become a no-show, while the allegation of the military conspiracy taken place on the day of the presidential election too, is unlikely to be materialized. Such baseless media hypes have given much publicity to the former president and his henchmen, he has pointed out.

The Royal Cabinet And School Chauvinism

By Udan Fernando -January 28, 2015

A hot topic among the middle class circles in Colombo and on social media in the last couple of weeks was the humongous number of ‘Royalists’ in the Cabinet. Factually that’s true. But why is there such a big noise about it and a waving of the blue-gold-and-blue flag, two months before the Royalists can do it at the SSC grounds?

We had a period close to a decade which was dominated by an extra-large Cabinet that drew Ministers who went to so many unheard of schools. Interestingly, nobody talked big about the respective schools the former President and Prime Minister attended. The former President is said to have gone to a half a dozen of schools from Galle to Colombo and nobody claimed that he was a product of this 

school or that school. But could it be that no school wanted to make that claim due to their embarrassment about their product? Probably. After all, school OBAs are nothing but Ego-Gyms. So why would they claim for themselves someone that would be a liability and tarnish the reputation and image of a school?Read More