Excerpted from Senior DIG (Retd.) Merril Gunarane’s ‘Cop in the Crossfire’ Confrontation with a mob intending to cause harm to employees of Dasa Industries, Dalugama, Kelaniya...
The quarantine situation in Sri Lanka is certainly affecting some burial places abroad. The Highgate Cemetery in London had a sudden vibration at a grave yesterday. It...
One winter morning in 1998, as a part of the SIA crew while planning a departure from Kimpo (Gimpo) International Airport Seoul South Korea, in our...
Ooh la la! Cheers and mourns Cass sorrowfully. We and our beloved country Sri Lanka (no longer Free) were much in the foreign news this last...
An important judicial personage was to be the Chief Guest at a prize giving of a leading school in Galle. And he prepared a six-page speech...
by Austin Fernando Many criticisms are directed at the Ministry of Foreign Relations (MFR) (previously Ministry of Foreign Affairs -MFA) for alleged operational failures. Incidentally, the...
A great “Ceylonism” or a bit of “Singlish” is the coining of the words No Action Talk Only to replace what these famous and world-renowned letters...
The spotlight, this week, is on Deepthi Jayarathne, a banker, working for an international bank, in Colombo. Deepthi is a freelance model (during her leisure time,...
Richmond College Masters’ C.C. Vs. Galle C.C. – 1909 Other than the Galle C.C. the only other men’s club of any distinction was the Richmond College...
by Anton Peiris, Emeritus Coordinator, International Baccalaureate, Switzerland (Reduce O/Level STRESS continued) Sri Lankan GCE O/Level students are 40 years behind their counterparts in the UK vis-a-vis...