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Dear Readers,
What do you think of Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama’s unlimited
foreign travels?
Hit the apple with a pithy one-liner on the issue written on it and win a prize. Please make it short and to the point.
Responses will be published daily from Monday to Friday, when the winner will be named.
Try to spare the head on which the apple rests but if
you really want to do otherwise, so be it! However, we reserve the right
to edit responses to keep them within the confines of decency and the
law.
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Responses
An IMF loan being another long rope to MR.
Siyambalapitiya "And Company" at the Diyawannawa asylum to hang
themselves with. But "And Company" are master adapts at saving their own
necks and plunging the noose down on the suffering masses.
R. R. Samaranayake,
Battaramulla
Of Siyambalapitiya,,
If I were to tell,
he is Lanka’s saviour,
Who without a failure,
Is borrowing enough funds,
To feed both - wise and dunce.
Government will enjoy the loan
and throw us a rotten bone.
Loan conditions terrible.
Government requirements horrible.
Siyambalapitiya in a state of comedy.
Country will be in a real tragedy.
Nazly Cassim,
Colombo 1
The fool and the money will soon be parted.
Jayatissa Perera,
Bambalapitiya.
People don’t know or ask, where the loan money goes or
what happens. Therefore he smiles
W. Ranasinghe,
Anuradhapura.
The apple may go through the ears of the Minister but never his desire for foreign funds will cease.
"This is how we stoop in front of the foreign lending
agencies" - Minister.
Ferlyn Junkeer,
Colombo 13.
Ranjith paying for Mahinda Chintanaya.
M. H. Nizam
Galle
"If only I had attended Bandula G’s Econ class!"
Mahela Siriwardena
Kandy
He is only holding the fruit; the Rajapaksa brothers
will enjoy it.
Hamsa
Beruwala
With the begging bowl we, go
Trotting round the globe
To the west, east or IMF
Borrowing billions but,
Who could say we are poor
With hundred ministers
Running in Limousines.
Nimmi Subhashini,
Anuradhapura
2.6 billion IMF dose
I administered on ailing economy
Is life giving medicine
You will endorse
What do critics
Know of anatomy
Dr. Siyambalapitiya MBBS*
(MBBS stands for Many Burials Before Success)
J. Abeygunawardhana
Homagama
Our foreign reserves are improving and he is sure to
drop the apple and run away.
Dr. Bandula Serasinhe
Colombo 02
"I get all the blame and my boss enjoys the plums."
Seevaratnam P
Hatton
IMF kicked, we licked; we kicked, IMF licked; now both
of us are kicking and licking.
Christ Muhandiramge
Negombo
Both must be put into a cedar machine.
Vivien S
Colombo 06
The Kegalle boy is swallowing dead ropes from the
Tangalle boy.
Adrian T.
Jaffna
The apple is like our economy—there is a worm inside.
R. T. Moorthy
Batticaloa
The minister is cute and our indebtedness acute.
Ramani Z
Colombo 10
The Winner
Despite being clapped in heavy irons and having to carry all the heavy burdens on my head, I can still manage a smile!
C. W.
