I was approached by a lady today 20th June 2018, who came to my office in Biyagama to seek help in finding a place to meet with young women who have come from far off parts for jobs in the Biyagama Export Processing Zone (this would be common to many other BOI zones too,) and I implore the Government to ...
In speaking to a packed audience at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Professor Sally who is also the Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka’s Premier think tank on Public Policy, said that until the basics are in order, there is little possibility of growing an economy to benefit from the latest advances in technology.The lecture was titled ...
The economy can grow ONLY when Companies can increase their production.It is NOT by giving jobs to more Government Servants, where you have to tax people more to pay for them, or borrow money to pay their salaries, which we are doing, and not supplying the labor for the companies so desperate for them to grow their businesses. More jobs ...
It is only a matter of time, when poverty, hunger, rising sea levels, force the South Asian Poor living on the coasts of the Indian Ocean, onto boats of questionable quality. Where do they drift into? Sri Lanka of course. Hundreds of thousands of people will land on our shores, in around 20 years, and no one is even making ...
Rogues in high places are presently trying hard to land grab from areas of biodiversity and forest, to join with foreign investors in projects where they see financial gains for themselves. This has caused all sorts of problems, such as in the the sensitive Knuckles Reserves, where there are allegations and denials by people in high places.The answer is simple, ...
Philosophically I am unabashedly opposed to this discrimination, especially because most foreigners appreciate our Scintillating Biodiversity and Archaeology, unparalleled and unique on this earth. I have traveled the world, I cannot recall an instance, where I was charged more than locals. However I have had to pay high visa fees as a Sri Lankan citizen!Now comes the news that New ...
In order to grow this economy, it is not just productivity increases that are necessary, we must encourage the population to begin work at a younger age, work for a longer period and increase the female labor participation in the workforce. In short we must have far more people in active productive work than we currently have.What is the employment ...
All our elected representatives, live in dreamland, making decisions that have no bearing on a National Plan for development of this Country. This has been true no matter who has been in power, so I am not taking sides here in terms of successive Governments.So when the Maduru Oya right bank project 2018 has been mooted as another massive agricultural ...
If you watched the charade on TV, - the made for TV, realty TV special called the Trump / Kim summit, the broadcaster were racking their brains to find out how much Enlish Kim Jong Un actually knows and how much he can speak.They all completely forgot about his early education in Switzerland that has extensive section in Wikipedia and ...
If one reads the opinion piece of Paul Krugman in the New York Times of 11thJune 2018, one would believe that POTUS Donald Trump, can get away with anything he does or says, because the Republican Congress is either impotent or shell shocked and stays that way, allowing him to do as he pleases. Up until they are ousted from ...
It is hilarious that the Sri Lanka media are reporting some bunkum about entertainment zones in Hambantota that the Chinese want. The Chinese are simply balking at paying the next installment as part of the agreement as Sri Lanka has NOT kept their part of the bargain. As usual some donkeys who don’t know anything about agreements represented the Sri ...
But there is a catch!FT Columnist Eranda Ginige in his article yesterday, which was a translation of his speech at the now infamous Viyathmaga 2018 Annual Convention, argues that we should transfer responsibility of the nation’s future to the youth, who understand 21st Century realities.http://www.ft.lk/columns/Social-innovation-–-Future-of-business-and-the-rise-of-Millennials/4-656667He emphasizes a Social Innovation, that turns traditional theory on its head and prioritizes those that ...
http://www.worldoceansday.orgis tomorrow and the theme is twinned with the Environment Day just passed, of “Preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean”As one of the worst offenders of putting plastics in the Ocean around us, we need to be far more aware of what we can do to stop it. At the last flood there was NO attempt ...
As usual we are a nation of procrastinators. We leave for tomorrow what we can do for today, and then find tomorrow blocked by a flood! Or change of minister. Well Tissa Jayaweera’s article in the Daily Mirror of 5th of June 2018, amply illustrates what we should be doing immediately.http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/How-resourceful-Sri-Lanka-became-a-teardrop--150849.htmlHe is right. We have so many tanks, at least ...
Today is World Environment Day. The host Country is our neighbor India, and not one newspaper told us that. The theme “beat plastic pollution” So what better way to bow our heads in shame, and take a decision to ban the production and sale of water in single use plastic bottles.http://worldenvironmentday.global/I know it is hard on the producers, but depending ...
We are a nation that seems to believe it is fashionable to clear land of forest and brush and prepare it for SOMETHING? What I may ask?I travel up and down the country often and I see so much land that could be cultivated but is not, so effectively is of ZERO productive use, as neither a tree is growing ...
I just wonder if anyone on my friend list has traveled on a road that is in all maps, but has no signage and saves 80km at least if compared to travel on tarmac. I discovered it a few days ago, just by chance when I was looking for a way to get to a point, without having to go ...
– amalgamation and DE politicization, along with teeth to manage their affairs and be accountable to the Country for their actions. Caliber of workforce @ DWC from top downAs is typical of public service, the staff in different grades follow established practices, that place no emphasis on background, aptitude, dedication, dependability. One therefore has staff on the same pay ...
Thewarapperuma Factor Explained – there is a time and place for itPalitha Thewrapperuma is a populist MP and now Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Wildlife.There was a long time clamor amongst his supporters for him to obtain a ministerial post, as he was known to be sympathetic to the issues of the rural people, having a ...
I have already mentioned the attacks the staff face in previous blog entries, when they go to villages to resolve HEC (Human Elephant Conflict Issues) matters, as they are the people on the frontline that people blame when an elephant attacks, so I will not refer to that here.The DWC is grossly under- resourced. To begin with it needs a ...
