By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Undoubtedly, children, particularly from low-income families, have borne the most significant hardships due to the unprecedented economic crisis that has beset our country. The single biggest challenge has been the skyrocketing food prices of even essentials, resulting in many families adopting coping strategies from reducing the number of meals consumed to eating […]
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This Wednesday morning, having completed business at my bank along Flower Road, and not finding it easy to get transport, I decided to walk home, at Kanatte, off Bauddhaloka Mawatha.(With apologies to Wordsworth:) “I wandered lonely as a cloud, past the country’s school number two, towards Maitland Crescent, when all at once, I came upon […]
By Dr B.J.C.Perera MBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL) Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I have followed with great interest the erudite articles by scholars regarding education in English in The Island. Of course, teaching English […]
by Dr B. J. C. Perera MBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL) Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. In an article in The Island newspaper, titled “COVID-19 VACCINES FOR CHILDREN: THE LATEST MEDICAL INFORMATION” published on 10th January, […]