– it’s regressive, in this day and age of climate change. where priority should be survival of the species! The demons have finally come home to roost. Years of colonization and transfer of people from place to place with promises of riches have finally shown the great LIE that has fooled generations of our hapless countrymen. You just have ...
The haphazard and highly politicized distribution of route permits causes enormous friction within the industry. In another example of the manner in which these route permits are distributed, sold, bribed away and auctioned, once again it has caused a problem leading to this action, in a very competitive industry. Not only do these operators have to compete with the state ...
In the second part I will concentrate on how a politician spends to get the best bang for his buck especially for one in the opposition, without any state largesse or robbery to depend on. That in itself is worthy of another discussion!What is the objective? It is to obtain as much empathy from a potential voter, so that he ...
I know what desperation and frustration with the Country’s progress can mean to us who are genuinely concerned about our future, not for our lifetime, but for those who are yet to be born.Everyone I speak to echoes the same sentiments, but fails to find an answer, usually being “nothing can save Sri Lanka from itself” due to the mindset ...
The Director General of the Department of Census and Statistics just penned an article about some fact relating to the 1.1M Public Sector workers, excluding the Tri Forces Personnel.http://www.ft.lk/columns/Public-and-semi-Government-sector-employees-exceed-1-1-million/4-658694Of the 300,000 who commute to their offices in Colombo, he has not analyzed, because he has not questioned them, on the time they spend commuting. WE ALL KNOW, when we go ...
I just so happened to be sitting next to the Deputy Mayor yesterday at a softball cricket match where young people from the CMC were playing. We spoke about many topics and I note below some of them just to put our thinking caps going on how we can improve the services of the CMC in Colombo.I noted that Government ...
The disgrace of a Government that issued incorrect A level results last morning knows no boundary as the fallout MUST result in the rolling of heads!! Beginning with the Minister responsible, namely the Minister of Higher Education, under whom the Commissioner General of Examinations operates. The latter and the Secretary to the Minister of Higher Education are now entangled in ...
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 ...
The intrigue that has arisen from the recent revelations by the Sunday Leader, first on account of the expulsions of prefects from St Thomas’s College, Mount Lavinia which eventually led to the official resignation of the Warden (Headmaster) though the invisible hand of the Presidential prodigal Namal seems to be stamped all over it, and now the furor over the ...
Dr Sunanda Madduma Bandara, a one time Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and now the Director General(Development and Communication) of the Ministry of Economic Development has written an article in Today's "Irida Lankadeepa" (page 6 of the Nimthera section) on "Subsidized Fertilizer Bundle that has improved the living conditions of the nations Farmers"I must also add that his ...
Main “takeaways” from the panel discussion on Monday 10th September on News 1st regarding the Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) Those on the hot seat were, Environmental Lawyer Jagath Gunewardena, Elephant Expert & Scientist Chairman of the Center for Conservation and Research Dr. Prithiviraj Fernando, Environmentalist & Director Species Conservation Center Pubudu Weeraratne, Chairman of the Federation of Environmental Agencies ...
I was privileged to be invited to the Seminar “Gamani Corea’s contribution to Domestic and International Economic Policy” sponsored by the Gamani Corea Foundation, held at the Institute of Policy Studies Auditorium, at Independence Square that started at 2pm and when I left having being walked to my car by Dr.Saman Kelegama, the current Executive Director/ CEO it was 9pm. ...
Go back 50 years, and look at the way the traditional eats were prepared almost exclusively at homes, under wood burning fires, using clay pots and natural locally produced containers, and then consider how they are prepared today, with all the plastic, kerosene or LP gas cookers, air-tight containers into which they are put and the fewer people in the ...
Sri Lanka is a land of 20,000 villages which are very poorly organized to benefit those living there. These villages need a complete overhaul such as what is suggested. I have recently spent a lot of time travelling around the country on unnamed roads and following dirt tracks to discover where people live and what they do and formulate ...
We who were not invited had to stand outside on the 'other' side of the road to get a glimpse today. Even the pavement surrounding the Center was out of bounds!
Following on from the previous related blog entries of the past few days, I note that a further sale of a chunk of another Conglomerate, Aitken Spence was made to a foreign entity as it was another case of doing whatever was necessary to get some more exchange into the coffers in a day the Governor of the Central Bank ...
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 an interview in the Sunday Observer of 4th December, Mr Grero who just crossed over from the UNP seemed to give as his main reason, the fact he could be of positive use to the Current Administration, in implementing the National Education Policy, which according to him is similar to the proposal he had made to the UNP. He ...
New Year’s day 2012 and I almost had a row with my Dad, when he said that according to the papers, Commercial Bank was doing a great job in their CSR by helping 6000 students with Computers and related assistance for IT.I told him to read further and actually think. The Bank is in the business of using CSR to ...
The original dansalas were to offer relief to pilgrims on their way to a particular religious site so they could be fed along the way as an act of charity to help them on their pilgrimage, however that is almost forgotten, and they are usually no nearer a place of worship and more likely by the side of a road, ...
