President Mahinda Rajapaksa earned a vast measure of goodwill in May 2009 by defeating the LTTE, and went on to accumulate even more public approbation thereafter by employing his exceptional public relations skills.  In marked contrast, a number of his hangers-on have conducted themselves, from even earlier on, with an almost total disregard for public [...]

In May 2009, CIMOGG wrote to the Press regarding several questionable features of the so-called “hedging” contracts entered into by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC).  Whatever be the final outcome of the arbitrations and appeals that are involved, the public needs to look into this unsavoury episode from first principles, without being put off by [...]