I had the opportunity of visiting the St Francis Boys Home, Mel Kopiwatte, Minuwangoda, on Wednesday, 17th October 2018, on account of the fact that two Australian Friends were visiting there with a donation raised by well-wishers in Australia for them to purchase a Two-wheeled tractor trailer and implements for agricultural use. I was greeted by the Warden. Present ...
I am writing this in mid January 2012. As of today around 250 students have been suspended or arrested due to various bogus or valid reasons in many of the 8 State University campuses around the Island. Even the day before, the Minister of Higher Education was booed by the students of the Jaffna University, for insinuating that the LTTE ...
Due to the emotive nature of the closure of local schools, especially those with less than 50 students the Govt. has decided to take reverse measures by reopening previously closed schools. This to me is only a reaction to bad publicity and is a retrograde step, taken to boost sagging popularity by emotive moves.I have noted earlier about why so ...
Parliament in Sri Lanka seems to pass extremely important bills, and the populace appear clueless of their existence thanks to the Media that did not report it in the papers today. Who is to blame? In this case it was in the order paper of Parliament but the media either chose not to pick on it, or the reporters did ...
I was just reading a blog article by the ‘Sri Lankan Doctor’s Comments’ today where he was asking how we explain the happenings after the killing of the doctor in Karandeniya, where the suspects homes were set on fire and various acts of revenge took place, and also of the more recent Kahawatte murders, where the home of the brother ...
Now that all the triumphalism is past on elimination of the LTTE as a threat in Sri Lanka we must seriously do battle with the war on drugs, which with the latest drug busts as evidence, is taking an ominous turn, where Sri Lanka is now an entreport in the drug trade with massive amounts of drugs entering and leaving ...
The question above is an interesting Foreign Policy poser for Sri Lankan students of International Affairs. Obama is going to Cambodia to attend an Asean Leaders Summit, but is nevertheless the First by a sitting US President to that Country. Its been a while since Cambodia opened up, and is now firmly within the US grip with much US investment, ...
Just think about it. If you know the size of the Ruhunu National Park that is open to visitors, and are told 900,000 visitors went around that in 2012 between 6am and 6pm, the hours the place is open to the public, you would if you were a reasonable person think it crazy.Of course as there appears to be no ...
I have said it before and will say it again, we do not have anyone in office or in power who can think. The obscene amounts that have been spent on Deyata Kirula, and the waste attached to it could solve the education deficit for 2012, just to give an example of the magnitude of the costs, but go and ...
Sri Lanka has suddenly become a country where violence and murder to achieve one’s ends appears to be a very matter of fact event. If one takes three examples to make a point. First, the murder of a successful businessman his wife and two children in the Udawalawa area, when they discovered who the hooded people were who had come ...
Background to the present malaise There is no argument that we in Sri Lanka must restructure our Human Resource Capacity, the real driver of our economy to meet the needs of the future and in this context 20202 and beyond. There is also no debate now that we SHOULD HAVE made a visionary decision when Three Wheelers were introduced ...
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, ...
– we must get to the heart of the issue, not just sticking plaster to stop a nose bleed!It appears that Reverse Osmosis systems in the Rajarata are the rage. Temples, Schools, Community Centers have been supplied with RO systems, by well-meaning NGOs and charitable organizations as well as CSR projects of well-known companies.It has been thought that the water ...
Each day is like no other, surprises and unexpected events are a constant, and despite all this we go about our daily lives with quiet determination and expectation of each day being better than the day which precedes it.As night follows day, we have lost that certainty as even during the day clouds come over to mimic the night. We ...
I just cannot understand how two faced this Government is! Just think they go on and lie to the public that they will not privatize or sell any assets to foreigners and guess what. EPF are under instructions to sell as much of their stock holdings as possible ONLY to foreigners. We locals are not allowed to buy this. These ...
As a follow up to my last post on the paltry allocation in the coming year’s budget for Education, there are many aspects of this topic which includes Tertiary education that require a sea change. I will no doubt refer to different aspects in follow up blog entries, but let me start first on the subject of entry into schools.One ...
Rational and thinking people are normally put off with sycophantic and uncritical look at the failings of Government, especially one such as ours in Sri Lanka. However the reason why media of this nature are able to survive, is that the readership is unable to look behind the news and determine how much garbage is fed to them and determine ...
Daniel Inouye, A senator in the US Senate representing the state of Hawaii for the past 50 years, and the current longest serving Senator died a few days ago, and at his memorial, which President Obama, the Hawaiian born Commander in Chief attended on Sunday. There were some interesting insights from Senator Harry Reid, of Nevada who is the Senate ...
The Australian Foreign Minister is in town primarily to look into ways of preventing the record number of boat people from Sri Lanka attempting to reach Australia in 2012. The SL Govt. claims to have also prevented 3,000 from leaving, by catching them before and while they were on the high seas.All ethnicities are involved, and it has nothing to ...
I was having a general chat yesterday with an undergraduate at the Kaleniya Campus, who is studying for an accountancy degree, and at the same time working in an Accountancy firm as an Audit Clerk about what he expects for a future here in the profession and beyond.I shall note the issues in point form so that any commentators can ...
