The world of cricket – the gentleman’s game – took another body blow last week with the revelations of the Al Jazeera sting operation which claimed to have strong evidence that two tests played on the picturesque Galle Cricket...
What must it take to get up to date health care for the sick of this country?
Two Positron Emission Tomorgraphy (PET) scanners, both donations, one bought through the goodness of Sri Lankans, and the other being part of the...
My cousin and I have a little joke between us. It is that when getting into a three-wheeler in Colombo, one needs to check for two things: a working meter, and the political tendencies of the driver. The former...
Background
It is no secret that foreign ministries work in water tight compartments and often under immense pressure. As a result, they cannot be flexible, and quite obviously cannot think out of the box. Even the most experienced foreign service...
Nine years after physical hostilities ended between the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ex-combatants of the rebel group are struggling to survive.
This, despite the government’s massive rehabilitation programme at the end of the war, which...
I am often asked why the Sri Lanka Army was not demobilized in May 2009.
The first thing I must emphasise is that a Defence Force is essential for a country whether you at war or at peace. There is no...
I wrote in two previous columns about two sides of the coin. First, the bribe-takers in “Decline of integrity in public service: Can we stem the trend?” and about the bribe-givers in “Corporate Corruption: The Other Side of the...
The decision of the Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) to present a Private Members Bill on the abolition of the executive presidency holds out some hope that constitutional reform will not be completely forgotten in the remaining 18 months of...
In February this year, the University of Kelaniya hosted a gender festival; the third in a series to promote gender equity and equality.
The first two were held at the Eastern University and the University of Peradeniya, in May and...
While the Sri Lankan economy is on a downward path, the coalition government is struggling for its survival, and the economy is not on its radar.
The political front is in chaos. Conflicts within and among the ruling political parties...
The National Zoological Gardens is amongst the oldest in the Asian region and is 82 years old. Initially set up by John Hagenback as a transitory home for captured wild animals, waiting to be transported to Zoos in Europe,...
I mentioned in a previous article on integrity in public life that “the low ebb of integrity and corruption in the corporate world needs another telling”.
So here it is.
I saw the growing tree of corruption spreading its canopy that...
