By Lynn Ockersz Stunted and wasted to the bone, He is no tourist brochure pin-up boy, As he lies huddled in his tumble-down cot, An easy prey to disease and lingering death, An unedited image of our development track; And it’s not only the rural backwaters, That those who know best have in mind, When […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando In spite of issuing a five-year multiple visa to retired Maj. Gen. Udaya Perera in Aug 2019, the US, in early Dec, 2021, barred him from entering the country. The US ordered Singapore Airlines not to permit the Gajaba Regiment veteran to board the Singapore-bound flight, from where he, his wife and […]
By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Economics is not a hard science. There are no scientific axioms in economics that can be universally accepted. It all depends upon the economic paradigm or episteme one operates with and within. Economic policy is a matter of choices. There is no one, single, correct answer that is self-evident. It all […]