The full tragedy of over 400 home-trained nurses being declared unsuitable to work in the USA because of their lack of English proficiency has shocked all of us. Despite opposition by Sri Lankan chauvinists many of us have persevered in our attacks on the former stupidity of the Education policy of this country. Only FOUR […]
The present draft tax proposals states that the introduction of With Holding Tax (WHT) would be only an advanced deduction, and the Payees will be subjected to file Tax returns each year and make the balance payments, over and above the WHT percentage, if they are liable to do so. In effect, all those whose […]
A PETITION In any crisis, the natural human instinct is to protect children first. Children are humankind’s most vulnerable and valuable asset. Yet, the widely-held belief that addressing economic and political concerns at the family level will automatically solve the issues that children face is both wrong and potentially dangerous. While many problems that children […]
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I remember now what I was told by the headmaster of the Sinhala School at Trincomalee, which I visited on a project to provide furniture soon after the Indo-Lanka Accord had been signed in 1987. I found the school admirably run and congratulated the principal who told me that he had not done much when […]