An article in the January 8 Sunday Island compared Bangladesh with Sri Lanka. We were rather high in international esteem when Bangladesh was born out of a war between the two Pakistans with our Premier Sirmavo B helped by allowing planes on humanitarian business to land here. Then Bangla was considered the second poorest nation […]
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Rajitha Ratwatte writing from New Zealand about both his adopted country and his home country, which he seems to be very loyal to, gives print to a profound consideration which needs everyone’s attention. To end his Friday March 28 column ‘From outside the Pearl’ he states boldly and succinctly: “…. we once (around 30 years ago) had a minister of ports who had been educated at Oxford – not a gold chain snatcher.” The Oxford mentioned is the most prestigious University in Britain and the graduate Lalith Athulathmudali. Now, please remember it is Ratwatte, safe in NZ or unpronounceable Aotearoa as he calls the land by its ancient Maori name, who says this about the present holder of the Ports post. He hits the nail sharply on its head since here is a sure-fire reason for the deterioration of the country. If legislators are not prestigious how can a government earn the people’s respect, and global respect too? If choices of Ministers are made only for votes’ sake and t