Culture is one of the stronger factors which could act either as a binding fabric or destructively as a sundering sword. It is the people, politics,...
Mr. President, I listened to your statement to Parliament, relating to the IMF programme. It is common knowledge that the IMF, or any lending institution, will...
Our policymakers often talk about economic revival, but their reliance on cheap avenues for earning foreign exchange is a cause for concern. The garment exports, foreign...
I commend Dr. Nilanthi Senanayake, of the Faculty of Medicine, for her eye-opening remarks, which appeared in The Island of 26 April. In fact, finding popular...
by Garvin Karunaratne In my extensive travels, throughout Sri Lanka, both as a former Administrative Officer, and as a tourist, I have passed through the avocado...
The University of Colombo was considered to be the country’s metropolitan university when it was made a separate university in accordance with the provisions of the...
Draconian Patriot Act exposed By Daya Gamage Foreign Service National Political Specialist (ret) U.S. Department of State Six weeks after the September 11 attacks on American...
By Dr. Ranil Senanayake Sri Lanka’s position paper on Climate Change given at the Conference for Climate Change (COP21) in December 2015 at Paris stated: “We...
The Ministry of Agriculture in Sri Lanka is considering a request to send 100,000 Toque Macaque monkeys to zoological gardens in China. The proposal to export...
Amidst the many reports of gross corruption, discussions on loans from IMF, restructuring, inflation, and the rising rates of road accidents and homicides before sinking in...