Remember our caper a couple of weeks ago about the Export Development Board - that Mr. Rauf Hakeem addressed the board believing it was part of his turf only to find that when the subjects under ministries were gazetted, it had gone to Prof. G. L. Pieris’ Industrial Development umbrella? So the good professor addressed the board.

The situation has changed all over again and the EDB is back again under the Trade Ministry as it was during Minister Kingsley. T. Wickramaratne’s time.

Obviously somebody up there cannot make up her mind or reacts as the pressure mounts. Alternatively, the much talked about inefficiency is still very much a part of the national scene.