Leading businessman Harry Jayawardena of Melstacorp PLC was recently hosted at the Port City Colombo project development site by Executive Project Management Director, Raja Edirisuriya.
Jayawardena, who has held many prestigious titles in his years of service to the country, was able to view first-hand the progress and impact of Port City Colombo on Sri Lanka. Search for:
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Hospitals Ragama, part of Melsta Health which is a fully owned subsidiary of
Sri Lanka’s leading diversified conglomerate Melstacorp PLC recently made
history when it became the only healthcare institution in the country to be
accredited with an integrated management system (IMS) comprising of four
international standards; ISO 9001 :2015, ISO 22000:2018, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO
45001:2018.
In February 2020 Melstacorp PLC owned by
famed business tycoon Harry Jayawardena fully acquired Browns Hospitals managed
by Browns Healthcare and rebranded it to Melsta Hospitals Ragama. In such a
short span of time, the Melsta Health management has been able to achieve an
affordable, quality conscious and process driven culture whilst staying true to
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The challenge of making Sri Lanka self-sufficient in milk Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
In order to achieve President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s concept of ushering prosperity in the country, we can meet those needs ourselves without importing dairy products and animals.
The history of importing cattle to Sri Lanka dates back to the Second World War. The cattle were brought to supply meat for the consumption of foreign soldiers. Cattle brought from Cape Town, South Africa were called “Keppa” cattle. Following the end of the war, nearly 200 such animals were left at the Race Course in Nuwara Eliya and the troops left. Prime Minister Mahamanya D.S. Senanayake ordered the cattle not to be killed and sent them to Bopaththalawa and Ambewela. Kikuyu grass imported from Africa was planted in those lowlands and those places were started as animal farms.
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There was a period in the late 80s and early 90s when Sri Lanka’s banking sector was beginning to expand its correspondent relationships around the world and strengthening these relationships through carefully structured facilities was critical. As the CEO of HNB, I was obliged to meet officials and counterparts of various banks around the world in order to negotiate our institutional relationships and thus expand and facilitate the growing import/ export industry as well as finalizing credit lines to Sri Lanka. On quite a number of occasions, I attended meetings in the UK and in various parts of Europe with heads of some of the leading banks in that region. We would discuss Sri Lanka and its economy, politics, the threat of terrorism whilst also working out trade products and negotiating funding lines. Every so often, I would hear remarks from the British and the Europeans regarding the size of our balance sheet. They would jokingly ask whether there are any z