By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana At last, a government politician has spoken sense! Although our politicians often make sensible suggestions while they are in the Opposition, they...
Critics of the government are very fond of comparing its performance with that of the once war-torn Vietnam and natural disaster-prone Bangladesh once in an impoverished...
Speech made by Oppisition leader Sajith Premadasa in Parliament on 08 Feb 2022. Hon. Deputy Speaker, It is an inescapable fact that the Sri Lankan economy...
By I. P. C. MENDIS His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith is quite understandably a disappointed church leader, whose recent “no nonsense” approach to the lackadaisical attitude...
by Chiyo Kanda World Bank Country Manager for Maldives and Sri Lanka COVID-19 has resulted in the worst health, social and economic crisis of our time....
If you happen to be at an airport outside of Sri Lanka and you see someone you think you might know, what’s the easiest way to...
by Dharshan Weerasekera Fisher folk in Northern Sri Lanka are facing two unprecedented threats to their livelihood: first, the threat of withdrawal of GSP+ by the...
By GARVIN KARUNARATNE Ph.D. The editorial of The Island on Sri Lanka’s Independence Day says it all: “The challenge before us is to retrace our steps,...
Further to Uditha Devapriya’s fascinating article on the untold history of Sri Lanka’s independence, one claim in the paper bears further investigation. The author contends that...
I, as a retired professor in Medicine with nearly 40 years of teaching experience, wish to comment on Upul Jayasuriya’s views on the above subject published...