The vaccination of residents in Colombo and suburbs with Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has now been continuing for almost eight weeks. The programme started with great hype but...
Typical view of stream banks that need to be protected (Photo taken in 2012 before it was transformed to a jogging track project) In 2012, the...
On the evening of 9th March, 2021, a vehicle made a loudspeaker announcement in Kohuwela; those over sixties could get the Covid-19 injection the following day,...
When Karu Jayasuriya was Mayor of Colombo, he set up a Committee, chaired by the undersigned, to look into and advise on some existing, or developing...
The UNHRC is an intergovernmental organisation, reporting directly to the United Nations General Assembly, with a mandate to promote and protect human rights in member countries,...
Sirasa TV is certainly having much more than its popularity. Its “Lakshapathi” weekly quiz programme has hit huge local, and global publicity, within a few weeks....
The pile-on over Sri Lanka by UNHRC is a blatant use of human rights as a political weapon in the geopolitics of today’s world. Many have...
A recent report in The Island says the CEB has admitted that the Mannar Wind Power Farm is not fully connected to the grid. This alarming...
by I. P.C. MENDIS The government has just extricated itself from the mess of the MOU with India and Japan over the ECT issue by resorting...
The article in The Island, dated 15th March 2021 – “Buddhists must visit temples regularly – PM” – takes us back to the pre-Independence era when...