Dr. Nihal Jayawickrema (Continued from last week) If the health of the nation has been seriously compromised, it is principally due to the failure of its political leadership, all of whom represent, or have represented predominantly Sinhalese electorates. For them, the constituency is essentially Sinhalese in race, Buddhist in religion, and Mahawamsa in mindset. Under […]
by A. Patabendige This year is the 60th anniversary of the notorious attempted coup d’etat in SL. Jayantha Somasunderam and DBS Jeyraj have attempted to revive media interest in it for whatever reason. It would otherwise have been forgotten. Some facts however appear to be distorted even now. Their combined efforts refer to it as […]
Posted on April 7th, 2021
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Philip
Gunawardene returned to Sri Lanka in 1932 after ten hectic years abroad. Of all the socialist politicians in the
island, Philip Gunawardene is the only politician to have had close contact with
socialist movements abroad, observed Ananda Meegama. He had met with
revolutionaries and freedom fighters in four continents. Philip said he
has associated with socialists of different brands from pale pink to dark red
in various parts of the world.
His
father got to know something of his son’s activities when
Queen’s Counsel R.L. Pereira returned
from New York. Pereira had watched a massive demonstration by the Hotel Workers
Posted on March 7th, 2021
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Philip Gunewardene,
who was very sympathetic towards the farmers, introduced a
Crop Insurance Scheme which benefited the farmers immensely. I am
not sure whether this insurance scheme is still operative, said Elmo de Silva
in 2020 .
Philip prepared a Crop Insurance Bill in 1958. It
was necessary to protect the farmer from crop failure, through crop insurance. This would be tried out first in two pilot
projects, one where risk is high and one where risk is low. The pilot projects will not be experimental
ones, they will be fact finding. At
present we do not compensate when there is loss of crops. We wait till they are
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