“The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an...
The political history of Sri Lanka is replete with assassinations and attempts at it. SWRDB, the common man’s Prime Minister, fell victim to a plot engineered...
The recent Policy Statement of the President has made the Government’s position on expansion of oil palm cultivation very clear. It will have to be stopped....
By A. PATABENDIGE The ceremonial opening of the 9th Parliament, held on August 21, 2020 saw the President, a war veteran, nothing less, do away with...
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is the desire and goal of Pohottuva politics today. It is now more important that the economic crisis faced by...
Professor Carlo Fonseka At the first death anniversary of Professor Carlo Fonseka, I would like to bring the focus of the reader to the legacy of...
Education Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris called on the prelates of Malwatte and Asgiriya chapters to appraise them of the government plan to scrap 19A (The...
An English clergyman, Thomas. Robert Malthus (1766 – 1834 ) in a book titled, “The Theory of Population” argued that the growth of population will in...
Open letter to the President Whilst appreciating and congratulating Your Excellency on much of the new thrusts proposed in the policy statement, the writer was thoroughly...
It is a laudable idea to resurrect local industries and also start new ones. Some of these industries, which began in the sixties and seventies, did...