There was an article today in the FT about Litro Gas, which is an indirectly government owned corporation that is a subsidiary of Sri Lanka Insurance, buying 25 acres of land in Kerawalapitiya to build an Oxygen plant to meet the nation’s needs, as a result of the Covid pandemic and potential use of Oxygen to save lives. Of course ...
Mr Nihal Ranasinghe, (photo above ) a former Controller of Immigration and Emigration, a very competent civil servant, who everyone in the loop, agrees transformed his department into one of the most efficient and productive, Government Departments in Sri Lanka, told me about a very simple product that he has developed in his spare time to help the Country. ...
The CEO's of Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple were grilled by the US Congress on the fact that they have too much power and control in their own fields of influence. The next day they disclosed record quarterly profits, thanks in part to the pandemic, which added US$250B increase to their values.We cannot fight them, but we sure can make ...
It was just announced that the Treasury has allocated Rs10.4B for the purchase of 200,000 MT of paddy this Yala season where harvesting had just begun in the Kurunegala District, before untimely rains disrupted the plan. This year it appears that Rs50 is the price for both Nadu and Samba, and even Keeri Samba as they account for 95% of ...
Photo taken in 2010 at the height of my farming activities. A quick drive to Parsikudah about 90 minutes from my Hingurakgoda property, for some R&R. We took our two dogs Bahu and Megha also.We must do what we enjoy, and if that permits you to help those less fortunate that is fine, but don’t think of that as a ...
Two key rational objectives upon which decisions must be made.The Government is desperate for income from Taxes to meet their obligationsThe Country is desperate for foreign exchange to import the products that will assist the economy to grow and prosper as well as providing inputs for the export industry.So how do you go about it?Look at imports and tax them ...
Food Security is the recurring theme for all countries post pandemic, now suddenly discovering that the old world order no longer holds and unlikely to return, with a new normal taking over. Nothing is more important for a nation - to make sure its residents can obtain their dietary requirements at a reasonable price. If Governments prioritize this, other sustainable ...
Lately the President has been exhorting the farmer by extolling the virtues of exporting his produce, why? http://www.ft.lk/business/Farmers-could-make-more-profits-by-exporting-President/34-703027The country is in dire need of foreign exchange and that must be in the back of his mind, looking towards agriculture to come to the aid of other industries that have taken a hit due to maladministration, which is now coupled with ...
The Chinese woman seen helping a disabled man sell his produce!Recently a post went viral on Social Media pointing out that a Chinese woman was seeing selling produce in a street market in Sri Lanka, questioning her rights to sell, saying why are foreigners allowed to sell in Sri Lanka, as in now they have even taken over our retail ...
I know people have been saying it for 70+ years – but I will repeat it this time too. Sri Lanka is at a watershed event now, where the election results will determine how we emerge from the unprecedented crisis we find ourselves in, a much worse state than most other countries on earth, despite the major backslapping still unabashedly ...
The George Floyd’s death awakening! Now has become politicized!The contextDue to the powerful images that the world witnessed, when a black man was asphyxiated by a sadistic cop while his three colleagues seem quite unperturbed, America has come to protest in streets up and down the country for a week or more now. People are saying it is just one ...
You are Terminalia Arjuna in Latin, but to me just KumbukYou draw the wind, coolness and wetness with a look that’s rusticRight in front of my eyes, you planted yourself before I cameSome twenty years or more, it now seems insaneWhat changes we have been through? Climate, flora and faunaThe nests of Jungle Fowl have gone from that cornerMouse deer ...
I have been a subsistence farmer for 8 years from 2004 to 2011 and believe I am sufficiently experienced in all aspects from growing to final sale to the consumer, to be able to opine intelligently on the subject as much anecdotes are from personal experience.Years of just paying lip service to farmers, in order to get their vote, ...
Another gentleman Mr WMAD Wendakaduwa succumbed to injuries from a wild elephant yesterday. He has 35 years of service under his belt and an expert in the area of moving elephants from troubled spots. He was loved by all and respected as an expert in this field.These incidents are now the norm rather than the exception, due to the increase ...
The way the people of the Country have been unnecessarily alarmed due to the Coronavirus is worrying, and an indication of how gullible, how insensitive, how racist, and how melodramatic the people are in general with a few exceptions, which indicate the nature of the public.The over use and therefore shortage of face masks, which are really of minimal value, ...
http://www.themorning.lk/pg1-lrt-deal-to-be-renegotiated/ It has taken 5 years of discussion to get to this stage, only for the whole project to be renegotiated and likely cancelled. This is because much of JICA funding is long term concessionary and based on terms that often includes the use of Japanese Firms in their construction and low commissions and bribes paid to local intermediaries. The ...
How about strictly enforcing the ban on traps and use of trap guns with increased vigor, distinguishing it from other form of hunting?Poaching is an organized crime, and like felling of trees, sand mining, distilling moonshine, they continue unabated as they receive patronage from the very top, and the connivance of the security forces by way of corruption to look ...
What if we do nothing? The population of peacocks in the Country is rising to proportions, where it is becoming a nuisance, doing more harm than good. We can get the experts to confirm or deny my hypotheses, using tried and tested scientific methods. This may be broken down by District, if we need to know if there is a ...
and the USA would love to have them!This is not pie in the sky or a joke, it is a win win proposition for all.No one in Sri Lanka realizes that we have over 5,000 hunting parties going hunting every day. They hunt deer, monitors, porcupine, sambhur, wild boar, and even monkeys, and unfortunately, traps are used that kill ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-vMAJQflmcThis is how you eviscerate Bad Apples from your midst (January 21st 2020)How to clean up corruption from within your ranks?Coming out of the national discourse, emanating from the speech today that Ranjan Ramanayake gave in Parliament, it is apparent that he has a point, that the Crooks are mainly inside Parliament and many like him in jail (he was ...
