(ABC News) For months, Wasantha Mudalige helped build a protest movement that ousted a president for the first time in Sri Lanka’s history during the country’s worst economic crisis. He was at the forefront of the swelling crowds that took control of the bankrupt country’s once impassable government buildings in July 2022.He was there when […]
THIS year Amaranath Cumaraswamy completes 50 years of continuous service in the laundry and dry-cleaning field in Sir Lanka. He started his career 50 years ago in 1973 in the laundry department at the first five-star hotel in Sri Lanka, the Hotel Ceylon Inter-Continental. Here he had the opportunity to work in the first fully […]
By Gwynne Dyer “We appear to be witnessing a dramatic and childlike scenario,” said Pope Francis, in Bahrain, recently. “In the garden of humanity, instead of cultivating our surroundings, we are playing, instead, with fire, missiles and bombs, weapons that bring sorrow and death, covering our common home with ashes and hatred.” It’s Pope Francis’s […]
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca Job Hunting in Sri Lanka At the beginning of 1985 spring season, I moved from the United Kingdom to Sri Lanka to launch the second stage of my career […]