“The world will not get better on its own.”
Eric Hobsbawm (Interesting Times – A Twentieth Century Life)
The 93 year old woman had died of Covid-19. Her body was brought to the Mathugama cemetery in a hospital ambulance, placed inside the crematorium, then hastily removed and returned to the ambulance. For a VIP hearse has arrived bearing another Covid-19 body and armed with an ‘order from above’. Against that dictat the PHIs were powerless. The ambulance, a life-saving vehicle, especially in pandemic times, was forced to waste two precious hours while the last rites of the connected dead were completed.
It was not of that land President Gotabaya Rajapaksa spoke on Friday. He made his #Me Best one hour nine minute address to the nation from a sunny place, adorned with green trees and ancient history. But the night had fallen on the nation as it listened to his words.
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Today is World Press Freedom Day with the
theme “Information as a Public Good”
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Stifling the peaceful expression of legitimate dissent today can only result, inexorably, in the catastrophic explosion of violence some other day
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Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, SC 468/92
On April 30, when the Indian Supreme Court was hearing a case which it had initiated by itself (Suo Motto) to examine issues relating to the management of COVID-19, one of the judges is reported to have stated that, “We want to make it very clear that if citizens communicate their grievance on social media and internet then it cannot be said its wrong information. We don’t want any clampdown of information. We will treat it as a contempt of court if such grievances is considered for action”.
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COLOMBO (News1st): The stores at which 27 essential commodities would be sold under concessionary rates must be named by the trade minister, a trade unionist has said.
The government announced that the prices of these goods would be sold under concessionary rates at Sathosa and Cooperative food outlets.
Accordingly, a kilo of Red Raw Rice will be sold at Rs 93, while a kilo of Nadu rice will be sold at Rs 96, and a kilo of Keeri Samba at Rs 125.
Wheat flour will be sold at Sathosa and Cooperative food outlets at Rs 84 a kilo. In addition, white sugar will be sold at Rs 99 rupees a kilo, and brown sugar at Rs 125.