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(LBO) – Sri Lanka’s latest budget should ensure the island maintains macro-economic stability that would help accelerate economic growth, the International Monetary Fund representative in the island said.
“The key element is in ensuring macro-economic conditions remain stable,” said Koshy Mathai.
“Inflation, interest rates and the exchange rate must remain stable to [...]
(The Island – by Nury Vitachchi) Nepal has a minor hit record. And in classic Asian fashion, it is based on a spelling mistake. “Looser” by a group named Kewa, which you can hear on YouTube, features the catchy line: ”L to the DOUBLE-O. S. E. R! Loser. I’m [...]
(Daily News – by Lakshmi De Silva)
Hidden among the lush green trees in close proximity to the Parliament complex there is a Folk Art Centre. In this quiet place there are huts built for craftsmen and women. Shriyani Chandralatha in her small cottage was making beeralu a traditional lace twisting and [...]
(Lakbima – By Gayan Kumara Weerasinghe)
The Colombo Municipal Council will continue to function under a special commissioner and the government does not have any immediate plans to hold fresh elections any time soon, government sources said. The chief minister of the Western Province took steps to dissolve the Colombo Municipal [...]
(The Island – by Eng Anton Nanayakkara ) Senior Deputy Director of Irrigation (retd)
While I was desperate to find a suitable term to effectively describe what is going on as our post flood activities, I was happy to find the Editor of the Island in his editorial of 17th [...]
(Daily News – by Prasad Gunawardane)
The Government has correctly responded, prudently opposed, and protested the appointment of a Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka by United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. The Foreign Ministry in a statement issued last week described the UN move as ‘unwarranted and unnecessary interference with a [...]
To be a doctor or lawyer you need to be QUalified unlike a teacher…
-Prof. S. Chandrasekaran
(Lakbima – By Sanjaya Nallapperuma)
The Dean of Education Faculty, University of Colombo, Prof S. Chandrasekaran, admits there are flaws in the education system and attributes failure in examinations to the fact that special attention is not given to [...]
(GV – by Mihirini De Zoysa) It’s February 14th, Valentines day and I am browsing the net, going from one link to the other, without a particular destination, enjoying tidbits from the cyber world.
I happen to come across an interesting TED talk http://on.ted.com/88Xq. Its about a school in India (Riverside School) that [...]
(The Island – By Vidya Abhayagunawardena) vidyampa@hotmail.com
The ongoing debate on Sri Lanka in the Indian film world in general and the South Indian Film Industry (SIFI) in particular is intriguing and thought provoking. The just recently IIFA award festival was devoid of participation of leading film stars from India [...]
(Daily News – by Renton De Alwis) I am sitting here on a Saturday morning in a hotel room in Bangkok. I was pulled out for a while of my active retirement, by my former employer; the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) with an invitation to take on a short [...]
(GV – by Michael Meyler) In the article “The bowl-or-ball dilemma of rubbishing English standards” (Sunday Observer, 6/6/2010), Dilshan Boange adds his voice to the growing clamour of protest at the idea of speaking English “our way”. He recounts the anecdote of a friend who called an Indian hotel and “had [...]
(The Island – by B.D.K Saldin)
Reading my friend Tissa Devendra’s article in the Saturday magazine of 19 June “Endangered Childhood Games” and Anne Abeysekera’s “Those Childhood games of yester year” of the 26th, I would like to add a few games that they have missed.
Tissa talks about the [...]
(Daily Mirror) Sri Lanka’s current pride in the musical scene, Misty, are going great guns in the US and Canada providing dance mad expatriates with a tasteful selection of their rich musical repertoire in what band leader Rajitha Rupasinghe described as the longest but most satisfying tour they have undertaken away [...]
(Daily News) Statement in response to the European Commission letter of June 17 to the External Affairs Minister
Continued from yesterday
External Affairs Minister Prof G L Peiris
We cannot endorse the Commission’s demand for attribution of liability to public officers constrained to act in good faith to protect life and [...]
(gulf news) There is every sign of the victorious military, BUT the LTTE remains in quiet corners after 14 months of peace
Elephant Pass: The military checkpoint here is sponsored by the Colonial Group, pipe and steel manufacturers based in Colombo. It’s a well-built structure allowing soldiers to stand guard behind sandbags, [...]
(The Island – By J.B. Müller)
It is a matter of national humiliation that Sri Lanka is unable to produce sufficient milk for its 20 million+ population even after six decades of independence and the ability to take decisions on its own without anyone’s dictation. Indeed, what price independence [...]
(Daily Mirror – by Upul Joseph Fernando) In India too , there are speculations that the Sri Lankan Government . is to appoint KP as its candidate for the post of Chief Minister at the Provincial Council (PC) elections in the North . Though it is beyond comprehension that KP will enter [...]
(Daily News – by Malinda Senevirathne) There is a plus side to inserting an email address at the bottom of a newspaper article. One gets a lot of feedback. I like reading comments, suggestions, answering questions, clarifying when clarification is sought etc. Not all comments are in agreement of course. [...]
(TC – by Dayan Jayatilleka)
Sri Lanka’s once shattered and broken territory – the boundary of the state — has been fused, but the nation remains fissured. How is it to be unified? This is all the more urgent because the visible absence of an ongoing post-war political process of ethnic reconciliation [...]
What was asked for; what was promised and what is going to be offered?( Sri Lanka Guardian – by Sumanasiri Liyanage) In Sri Lankan politics, things oftentimes turn topsy-turvy. When people ask for lower prices for basic food items, government lowers prices of luxury cars with the ludicrous argument [...]
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