Marriage Marriage is a rest period between romances. I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free. Don’t marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper. My wife ran off with my best friend [...]
By Cassandra Mascarenhas The glitterati of Indian Cinema are to flock to Colombo to dazzle the public in a few weeks, making Sri Lanka the place to be, come early June. One would even say that the combined forces of Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and 60 other A-listers more than [...]
THE 18th Annual Foxhill Super Cross races, one of the biggest sports events in Sri Lanka concluded last week on a grand scale with a surprise visit by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa. The event was attended by Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya as the Chief Guest and began [...]
Review Ordered by P. B. Jayasundera Brushed Aside By Vimukthi Yapa Hot on the heels of The Sunday Leader copy datelined April 11, Treasury Secretary Dr. P. B. Jayasundera immediately asked senior mandarins within the Treasury Secretariat to review the insurance arrangements taken out by CPC in the last few weeks. Jayasundera’s attention had been [...]
Sri Lanka’s Premier Racing Brand – EZY Racing who recently set about redefining Sri Lankan Motor Racing, were given an outstanding start on their new drive by the experienced Sajaad Zuhair during the recently concluded Foxhill Super Cross. With rain clouds hovering over the Foxhill track on Saturday (17) EZY Racing was eagerly looking forward to [...]
By The Incurable Romantic A few weeks ago, I was invited to a singles’ party. I can see half of you already cringing and thinking… “How embarrassing to display our needs and obvious loneliness before a whole bunch of people who are feeling the exact same way.” It did help I have to admit for [...]
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema – Photo by Asoka Fernando The marathon 12 hour parliamentary session complete with fisticuffs and verbal abuse hurled across the divide experienced in 2004 was replaced by cordial handshakes and mutual consent in making key parliamentary appointments at the inaugural session of the Seventh Parliament last Thursday (22). The session was [...]
By Faraz Shauketaly In London The world’s most famous cigar impressario was being mourned on Sunday, April 18, having passed away at the age of 91. Alejandro Robaina, was easily the Ambassador Extraodinaire for Cuba’s most famous product — the Cuban cigar. Robaina’s career went all the way back to the times of the dictator [...]
CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and killers go free New York, April 20, 2010 — Deadly, unpunished violence against the press has soared in the Philippines and Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index, a list of countries where journalists are killed regularly [...]
By Michael Hardy As world air travel returns to normal, airlines in Sri Lanka and around the world are counting their losses. The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajoekull began spewing ash into the air on April 14, grounding thousands of planes and millions of passengers in Europe. As the black cloud spread south and west, many travelers [...]
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