Government’s involvement in business is distorting the market mechanism, a corporate manager told this newspaper. There are now rumours afloat that the Government is going to buy bank Lanka Indian Oil Company plc (LIOC), he said. LIOC Managing Director Suresh Kumar was not immediately available for comment as he was overseas. LIOC is going through [...]
By Vijay Tagore Former Australia skipper Mark Taylor believes that Ricky Ponting is the right man to lead although other teams have stopped fearing his men. Q: Are Aussies on World Cup mode or still in Ashes gloom? A: The Australian team is very much in World Cup mode. After the disappointment of the Ashes [...]
By Sumaya Samarasinghe Raja Segar’s oil on canvas painting titled “Woman And Horses” was swept away for the sum of Rs. 400,000 last week at the annual Kala Pola where unknown artists alongside well established ones exhibited their work on the streets of Ananda Commaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7. For the first time in 18 years [...]
By Tisaranee Gunasekara Unfortunately our unenlightened people will never understand the Higher Reason that governs the actions of monarchs.” — Ryszard Kapuściński (The Emperor) Minister, Professor G.L. Peiris has a dream. In his dream Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, the Queen of England, arrives in Hambantota, followed by 53 three heads of state, to attend the 2013 [...]
Foreign Employment Agents Vs Sri Lankan High Commission In Malaysia By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Local foreign employment agents and Sri Lanka’s High Commission in Malaysia are at loggerheads over recruitments in Malaysia. The foreign employment agencies have raised concerns over the actions of Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner in Malaysia, Major General Udaya Perera, claiming [...]
By Rohan Wijesinghe He wore the Lankan cap with so much pride. Few Lankans have had a ‘better right’ to wear one. Quietly introverted and courteously articulate — the Double Barreled, Double International – dimunitive Mahesa Rodrigo passed away…. just as the calendar flipped open to the year 2011. As we cricket enthusiasts bow our [...]
The Fifth Galle Literary Festival may not result in any developments in the field of literature to attract international attention of scholars and writers but it certainly has resulted in the generation of much political polemics to draw in world renowned writers and commentators such as Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali. Reporters Sans Frontiers which [...]
RIENZIE Fernando was unanimously elected President of CR & FC at the club’s AGM last week, taking the baton from outgoing head, Jehan CanagaRetna. Fernando’s rise to the head chair is a logical culmination to his years-long service to the club – as flanker and lock forward, 1978-82, as an office bearer and then as [...]
School Rugby 2011 By Hafiz Marikar Anil Jayasinghe, one of the finest rugger coaches in the country will handle his old school Vidyartha College in the coming season. Anil was a top class fullback during his playing days and later took up refereeing and was one of the best in the country. He has blown [...]
Never Let Me Go — Life, Love, Death… By Sumaya Samarasinghe The story begins with Kathy (Carey Mulligan) watching Tommy (Andrew Garfield) on an operating table. Soon he will “complete”. Kathy H is the narrator of Never Let Me Go. She takes us back to her childhood in Hailsham, an upper class boarding school where [...]
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