It was interesting to note that there were two references in the Sri Lankan Sinhala blogosphere to the Earth day today and none in the Sri Lankan English blogosphere. I used to live in the United States where this day was remembered in a very big way in many states with a lot of events, to draw attention to ...
The Crisis of Investor Confidence due to the introduction of the CSE’s ATS7.1 System Upgrade to the computerized trading desk. The performance in 2012 of the crisis hit Sri Lanka Stock Exchange has been disastrous and many small investors have lost their life savings, taking up shares based on recommendations of Brokers who have helped many large investors, to pump ...
The debate in Parliament on Tuesday 21st January, on the above was so that the Central Bank would be able to impose their direction to this think tank by appointing a director (or directors) to the Board and thereby effect its direction.This is a grave mistake. The Central Bank is now meddling in all sorts of areas that are NOT ...
Why is it unpatriotic to speak the truth? I know it hurts those in power because it shows them in very poor light as the supposed patriots are really traitors, but that can’t be helped, as truth only hurts the crooks and the traitors in high places!In Colombo, the National Hospital is creaking at the seams, and many maternity hospitals ...
The Congress of Religions, a body comprising the leaders of the 4 main religions in the Island, have added their comments to that of the 4 Mahanayake Theros, who appealed to the President to set aside the Impeachment Motion.http://www.ft.lk/2012/12/15/congress-of-religions-on-impeachment-of-the-chief-justice/In fact they are exceedingly scathing and quite unequivocal in their forceful statement that grave injustice has been done in the proceedings ...
With 2 million Sri Lankans overseas, we must lay down what the obligations are of the state that is Sri Lanka towards them under different circumstances and where they seek help, how we deal with them.Firstly it is the people who remit money back to Sri Lanka who have single handedly kept this economy afloat for the past 10 years. ...
The reason why Sri Lanka a country implicated on sexual violence in conflict will not participate at the above conference to be held in London on 10th June 2014 is not clear despite being invited to participate alongside over 100 countries. This would mean that the participants who have accused SL of this will be able to charge Sri Lanka, ...
The 13th Amendment was forced on Sri Lanka by the Indian Government of the time as a means to solve the prolonged ethnic issues, mainly as it relates to Tamil grievances. This created the Provincial Council System, which to me is an added and unneeded layer of bureaucracy that is wasteful and counterproductive. It was meant to solve the problems ...
The tragedy of Sri Lanka continues, where the hard pressed health sector, with dedicated doctors and nurses who work all hours with complete dedication and diligence, have to face unions and corrupt practices that have been carried out for years, where prices of medicines are inflated and other totally unnecessary costs are incurred, which effectively results in poorer service to ...
The latest instance where President demands a reduction of Rs250 from the normal 12.5kg Gas Cylinder, was met with guffaws! It is as if he wants to show the people that he is in charge of every price reduction, when in this case it was already mandated under the usual formula for negotiating increases and reductions in this product, as ...
This Man who has been an actor since before I was born, dies a few days short of his 91st birthday on the 29th so has had a full life, and has spent his last days, having suffered a stroke in a care home that he himself had helped to found for retired actors.Of course having lived in England since ...
I am sure most of the readers of my blog in Sri Lanka would have read some time ago, about the Govt. saying that now there will never be a need for power cuts, now that Norochcholai was up and running.Well all the turbines of N are NOT functioning and the Country has had rolling power cuts everywhere except for ...
The past few blog entries have looked into Monetary Policy being run by the use or more correctly the cynical misuse of the Rs1trillion and growing EPF money of the private sector wage earners of this country. I have explained that the use of their stock holdings and sale of which ONLY to foreigners, was a ploy to get much ...
“6% GDP for Education, Save our Schools and Universities”That is the latest slogan of FUTA. Is that hypocritical or patriotic?FUTA (correct me if I am wrong) represents the University Academics of the State University system. In short it is a trade union of just one category of public servants. They have been for over a year agitating for better conditions, ...
Is it true that SF has joined the Government I was asked a few moments ago? I said I have not heard anything of the sort, but if it was, I said it will not surprise me.There are those who I know will go to their graves with their principles intact and there are those who I label as opportunists ...
There is an established (since 1957) School of Physio and Occu Therapy affiliated to the National Hospital Colombo. It trains physiotherapists on a 2 year program for an HND to absorb into hospitals by the Ministry of Health. It is considered a vocational institute that gives focused job training. Practical training in the National Hospital is an integral part of ...
In a spontaneous hastily arranged event, I asked Rajitha with whom we were staying the night, that we would like to meet some of his die hard supporters who went to bat for him in the recently fought Municipal Council Elections in Kandy, of which he was a candidate but failed to secure enough preferences to be elected to the ...
CP de Silva’s 100th birth was anniversary was yesterday and I referred to it in my previous blog entry yesterday. I am on my farm in Godagama, today and I was in touch with my contacts in Minneriya and Hingurakgoda to ask if they even knew about it considering the man dedicated most of his life for those people. It ...
An extract from an article in the Daily Mirror of 1st Sept.2012.“Teaching is not a profession. It is or rather should be meant for only those teachers who love being with children/young adults, who enjoy engaging with them and encouraging them to learn. If teachers do not have creativity, adaptability, resourcefulness and thoughtful planning it is highly unlikely they will ...
If you read my previous blog entry on the question of the Australian policy with regard to boat people, I pointed out what a benefit both illegal and legal immigrants are to the host country and what a service we do to that country.The Australians in their reply merely say that they will give some assistance to the Education sector, ...
