Since the late 1970s, outward migration has been crucial for the Sri Lankan economy, acting as a buffer against unemployment while attracting more foreign exchange — in the form of remittances — than most exports.
In the recent past, Sri Lanka’s economy suffered several setbacks due to two major events: a terrorist attack and a pandemic. After the tragic Easter Sunday terror attacks, the country began slowly picking up the pieces. From January to September 2019, the economy managed to grow 2.6%, a sharp decline from the 3.3% recorded within the same period in 2018.
I spent close to two years reading and re-reading Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chinaman for the purposes of my thesis, and so it took me a while to muster the strength to tackle his latest novel Chats With The Dead.
“When they imposed the curfew on Minuwangoda [on Sunday, October 4] we thought this could happen to us too—but over the weekend—because we’re around 15km away,” Thilanie (32), a resident of Ja-Ela told Roar Media.
Instances of rape of young boys in Sri Lanka are frequent but the idea that the boy child is less susceptible to sexual abuse and rape in this country is also widespread.
Following the advent of the ninth parliament led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the introduction and enactment of yet another amendment to the constitution of the country is not far off.
The first draft of the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution is here and to no one’s surprise. Although the first version of the 20th Amendment was introduced, drafted, and billed in Parliament by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in 2018, the new government’s version promotes and parades entirely new reforms.
As the pandemic struck Sri Lanka, the hospitality sector came to a grinding halt, and many looked ahead at an uncertain future. Here's how hoteliers and chefs around the island chose to regroup, gear up, and turn crisis into opportunity.
When the Yal Devi headed north, powered by Alberta, 31 years ago, never would the men behind the controls have known she was destined to take eight years to return to Colombo. If the history of world railways is anything to go by, this must be a record.
Fears that a second COVID-19 lockdown was imminent was somewhat tempered today with the news that Sri Lanka had surpassed 2,000 recoveries from the viral infection.
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has increased the number of random polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests carried out in the Colombo city, following the discovery of the recent cluster of patients at the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre.
Almost every week, for the last 126 years, well-dressed tea traders have gathered at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) to snap up Ceylon Tea for export.
Sri Lanka and the Maldives have become the first two countries in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) South-East Asia region to eliminate measles and rubella, ahead of the 2023 target.
Executive Director Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) Asoka Obeysekere, at a press conference today (30) introduced two hotlines, an email address and a WhatsApp number through which complaints and evidence of the misuse of public property during the upcoming Parliamentary Elections can be communicated.