Occasionally, I traverse along Park Road Colombo 5. During these journeys, I have observed an open drainage outlet /culvert filled with stagnant blackish water infested with the breeding of mosquitoes and loaded with garbage littered along the roadway. This infested drainage outlet with stagnant water breeding mosquitoes is next to premises No. 143 Park Road Colombo [...]
Sri Lanka coach Trevor Bayliss admits his team is fast approaching the end of an era as legendary spinner Muttiah Muralidaran gears up for his final tour of Australia. Muralidaran, who has already retired from Test cricket and will leave the one-day game after next year’s World Cup, touched down in Perth Friday ahead of [...]
Apropos your column In A Nutshell “Medicine Man” in your issue of October 24, my humble advice to the Hon. Dr. Merv the Perv is to paraphrase the saying “Physician Treat Thyself” in the hope that he might administer the injection/drug to himself and exterminate himself in the process! At least, we can live in [...]
Has anyone tried calling the Sri Lanka Embassy in Washington D.C. in the United States recently? Well, I did happen to call them on October 13, 2010 and what a surprise! The phone was answered by a man who said “Hullo! Hullo!” No Good Morning! Or any kind of greeting. He could not answer any [...]
St. Joseph’s College has done it again. Their swimming team has completed another successful season having almost made a clean sweep from the events which were worked off in the current year. They could look back with a great amount of satisfaction after having clinched as many as eight titles from the ten major tournaments [...]
According to a news item in both the print and electronic media, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has issued a directive to the Secretary, Health Ministry to keep the Out Patient Departments (OPDs) of all state hospitals open 24 hours a day and seven days a week to ease the congestion the patients face daily. I think [...]
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics, a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.” — Mark Twain in Eruption University students are back on the streets and universities have hit the front pages. The government is trying to curb student activities using outsiders as “parents” [...]
The Eighty Club, one of Colombo’s oldest and most prestigious clubs has planned a day of fun, food and music for members and their families on Sunday, November 14. The club will come alive with music, joy and laughter on this day when members and guests are invited to participate with enthusiasm. The event will [...]
All friends of the LSSP must applaud Comrade Vijaya Vidyasagara’s letter in the newspapers on the above subject. Comrade V.V. has been a staunch supporter and a significant member of the said party. He in his own way has critiqued the LSSP, joining the bandwagon concerning Drama Sri Lanka’s 18th Amendment. Kumar David has also [...]
MR’s dream haunted by SF/student unrest/International community President defends CBSL circular warning depositors Moves to delay UNP reforms convention Government declares war on students President Mahinda Rajapaksa is in the process of making grandiose preparations in view of his swearing ceremony scheduled for November 19, 2010. In our previous articles we stated that the venue [...]
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