In filing a Fundamental Rights petition against the appointment of a woman officer to the post of Acting Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), the thirty two aggrieved Senior Superintendents of Police have placed the spotlight on a glaringly...
January is still Black!
Sri Lanka’s journalists begin each year remembering their colleagues who have paid a price for wielding the freedom of the pen and other forms of expression.
Some reports claim that in the past 35 years at least...
In 1972 Sri Lanka cut its ties to the British Monarchy, and officially became a Republic. Yet, it seems that both citizens and administrators continue to live in the frame of mind of the ruler and the ruled, even...
February 4th has come and gone, and Sri Lanka marked its 73rd year as an Independent country.
The celebration was not as grand as other years; the organisers thankfully seemed to have taken the Covid 19 pandemic and its consequences...
Gampaha Divisional Wildlife Officer Devani Jayathilake is one rare public servant! She is in the news again and for all the right reasons.
Unlike most public servants who are only too ready to do the bidding of their masters, whatever...
Preventing Suicide amongst Senior Citizens
Sri Lanka no longer tops the world ranking in suicide and that is good news.
While that is a thing of the past, successfully managed through a Presidential Task Force appointed in 1997 to bring down...
Allegations of misappropriation of monies running into millions of rupees, be it the bond scam, Helping Hambantota or pay-offs on projects are not uncommon in Sri Lanka. Whether it’s aid or public funds, it has a value, both monetary...
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While she told the audience gathered at the Shangri-La hotel, that evening of March 8th, that ensuring peace and harmony for all could be achieved only if such values are imparted to children very early in life,...
Families of the missing and disappeared; perhaps the only phenomenon that unites Sri Lankans across all ethnicities, occupations, social classes and religions!
They are those whose family members have gone missing during the various periods of civil unrest and conflicts...
Even at the best of times, mild incidents of trauma could upset our equilibrium. And dealing with a pandemic situation as we are now, has its own peculiar challenges, when even interaction with family and friends has been reduced...
Just a year into the Gotabaya Rajapaksa Presidency,environmentalists are up in arms over the apparentassault on the country’s Wildlife and Forest Reserves.
Recent actions of the government’s Ministers’ and associates belie the promise of his election Manifesto, “Vistas...
Current leaders of the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) believe it’s time they stepped up their efforts to bring plantation workers on par with all other Sri Lankans in terms of economic and educational standards.
Even as the country and the...
