Bishop of Kandy, His Lordship Bishop Valance Mendis, recently stressed the pivotal importance of providing quality education to children of those long suffering people of Kalpitiya peninsula, including those who live on the islands, if they are to protect their rights. Bishop Mendis, who is also Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Chilaw, said that […]
Present times are so very dire that I decided to make my column this Sunday very light. I wrote last Sunday about the Samarasinghe family in Rambukkana who treat the many elephants in their possession very humanely in a traditional manner. In fact Carmini Samariasinghe, as I wrote, pioneered a project named the Millennium Elephant […]
T. M. R. Rasseedin General Secretary, Ceylon Federation of Labour (CFL) Member of Parliament Dr. Harsha de Silva in several talk shows over the electronic media persists in spreading a canard that Dr. N. M. Perera was the first to seek the assistance of the IMF for Sri Lanka. Nothing is further from truth than […]
by Chandra Arulpragasam Every young officer in the government service should serve some time in the provinces. This is necessary to observe the ways in which government services interact with the people – and to learn what the people think of them. It is also a good preparation for higher posts in the government, where […]
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