Approximately 300,000 kids sat for the Grade 5 exam at the end of August, Islandwide, which was conducted only in the Sinhala and Tamil mediums. It is NOT conducted in English! There are pass marks! For each district that are published and when the Student checks on line if he or she has passed, the result is a mark given ...
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 ...
Food, shelter, clothing and education are the core components of life if one takes one’s personal moral beliefs as a given. In Sri Lanka education is one that we have messed up royally and which needs urgent reform. I know from the small days, we smugly used our literacy rate as a measure of education and now it seems a ...
Sri Lanka has the unique distinction of having the highest concentration of sites of archealogical value of any Country on Earth. A rich 2500 + year history has seen to that, and in the past 10 years with the advent of relatively cheap metal detectors, most of the sites referred to have been desecrated of any item of historic interest. ...
It is simply embarrassing to see how easily the Indian Prime Minister was able to bamboozle the Sri Lankan Govt. which prides itself in being able to keep tabs on all those they consider a threat.http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/32803DBS in his article above alludes to how easy it was to deceive the Sri Lankan Govt. which if one believes DBS, make them look ...
It is VERY regrettable that the Accountancy Profession in Sri Lanka, much to my disappointment, and all the pompous words emanating from their senior decision making body is going the way of the Rabid Dogs, like the Legal Profession and the Medical Professions before them.The Institute has just put out a series of half page ads costing millions, especially after ...
You face incredible hardships and obstacles, when you devote your life to fighting for justice. It is heartening to see some who finally make it after years of suffering and to see the positive effects of their sacrifice. The name that springs to mind today as she received her Nobel Peace Prize was Burma’s Ang San Su Kyi. He acceptance ...
We as a nation accept too much blindly. When anyone expresses an opinion on a subject that people accept as ‘just the way it is’ we are complicit in its failure. Parliament is just another institution that has fallen into disrepute by the public at large. In a recent example the National List MP for the TNA Mr Sumanthiran, stated ...
As I walk down the road by the DS School on Gregory’s and I see the worried looks of the students just about to go into the class room to sit their respective A level tests, and then I open the news papers in the office a few minutes later and discover that yet another question paper has dubious credibility, ...
We are now used to almost every day of the year being remembered as the international day of this or that, and on top of national festivals, commemorations and religious ones to boot, each day become a diary full of events that mark significant chapters of humanity, and the human race.So it is only fair that February 14th be reserved ...
In most countries there is a gutter press that thrives on salacious gossip, and it is considered the “opium for the masses” and is not generally taken as anything other than entertainment. In Sri Lanka however the Govt. needs to get on the case of entertainment and use sensational stories as being the reason for “PRESS CENSORSHIP”. I found ...
The Sinhala papers have constantly harped on about the fact that the Southern Expressway has earned Rs 1B (koti 100 ka adayamak palamuweni wasara Dakshina Adivegi Margayan labuna) People falsely believe it is the profit!!!http://www.ceylontoday.lk/27-28421-news-detail-southern-expressway-incurs-rs-55-b-loss.htmlThe reality is that the tolls fees received was Rs1B approx in the first 12 months of operation. However as the article with the link shows, ...
www.godsinshackles.com screened at the National Film Theatre 303 Baudhaloka Mawatha at 6pm on 1stDecember 2016This is a 92 minute English language documentary film that explores the use of Asian elephants in India’s cultural festivals and temples. It was nominated at the United Nations & Jacksonhole Film Festival in New York 03rd March, and has won six international film festival awards. ...
People for want of criteria of measurement, estimate their abilities and their success in comparison to their peers, and those around them. When it comes to an independent jury not of your peers, making this assessment, a completely different outcome could result, denting one’s pride. It is how one reacts to this that is important, as well as a mark ...
CJ on one side and Chairman of NSB her Husband on the other side, flanking the President“Kalpanakaranna” my dear readers is the theme of this blog, so we can all live ‘serendipitous’ lives in Serendipity (a name given to Sri Lanka in days long gone, by foreign travelers) So any person with half a brain would have realized that a ...
A well intentioned proposal to give patients (in this case, in house patients in Government Hospitals) an indication of the cost of their treatment has come under fire by the GMOA before it even debuts!I do believe patients who receive free treatment MUST be aware of the Cost the Government expends on their treatment, so that our citizens are aware ...
I was having a discussion the other day with an 85yr old. His perception was that things are good. Shops are full of stuff, the country is full of cars, Roads and highways are being built, and the outward signs of prosperity are for all to see. Therefore, JR’s Executive Presidency, and the even more power taken into the Center ...
In the midst of the series of Minneriya Army Camps dotted along the road, a few years ago a new complex was built which included a swimming pool, a alcohol serving PUB some rooms for guests to stay, and two shop fronts that were rented out to Perera and Sons and Singer company. I believe this is on state land, ...
It is important that we keep in perspective our rabid anti US rhetoric. We must be able to justify our stance lest we be fooled into a false sense of logic. I recommend we start by analyzing in depth how the US electorate voted? Women in the US SenateIt is important for good governance and a mature democracy to have ...
A relatively small land area, (possible to purchase land for expansion, from farmers in the area in future, at market rates, based on surpluses arising from the Park Operations) was demarcated and specifically designated as the “Kalawewa National Park” in 2015 and opened to the public.This small area has the largest concentration of TUSKERS in Sri Lanka. I believe the ...
