By Gazala Anver Not long after meter trishaws were introduced to the world of public transportation in Sri Lanka, Nano Cabs made their appearance. The ‘worlds cheapest car’ can now be seen zooming in and about Colombo. The advantage: they are cheaper than your average cab and cancel out the disadvantages of taking a trishaw. [...]
13th World Netball Championship 2011 By Hishan Welmilla Sri Lanka will face a tough task in the 13th World Netball Championships 2011scheduled to get underway from July 3 in Singapore. Sri Lanka qualified for the event being the Asian Champions and has been drawn to pool A along with defending champions, Australia, Northern Ireland and [...]
Several hundred parents are compelled every year to make desperate appeals to the President for permission for their children to sit the ‘O’ Level Christianity or Roman Catholicism paper in English. While President Mahinda Rajapaksa has, since 2007, graciously consented to this request, the parents of these children ask why they have to appeal to [...]
Hemas Hospitals has become the first Sri Lankan hospital to receive international accreditation from the prestigious Australian Council on Healthcare Standard International (ACHSI), a leading Australian healthcare accreditation provider that delivers accreditation and quality improvement programs throughout the world including New Zealand, India, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Malaysia and many other countries. Speaking to [...]
By Basil Fernando (AHRC) There are discussions about Prageeth Eknaligoda’s abduction and disappearance that go something like this: Was he a journalist or was he not a journalist? Was he a great journalist or was he a lesser journalist? Was he abducted and made to disappear due his activities as a journalist or was the [...]
For the second time in 9 months, the Rajapaksa regime foiled efforts to have a “Freedom of Information” Bill taken up for discussion in parliament. On the first occasion in September last year, when brought up as a private member bill by Opposition MP Karu Jayasuriya, he was made to drop it, with a promise [...]
UK Border Agency By Easwaran Rutnam With the controversy and concerns over the recent deportation of Sri Lankans from Britain including failed asylum seekers, The Sunday Leader spoke to Chris Dix, South Asia Regional Director of the UK Border Agency. Q: Does the UK Border Agency feel that with the war now over in Sri [...]
Increased dissatisfaction over the conduct of international affairs by powerful western nations, at times with the blessings of the United Nations, is being voiced both in Sri Lanka and other Third World countries. Right now there is a furious debate raging in Sri Lanka over the report of a panel of experts on alleged war [...]
As a person who has played the game at some level and now a keen student of the game, I venture to make the following observations. 1. It is high time that elections were held to have a Board chosen by those eligible to choose the Board. 2.It is a crime to allow the powers [...]
By Ashwin Hemmathagama – Parliament Correspondent The Ministry of Ports and Highways expects the Colombo Port expansion programme to be completed ahead of schedule. The project was undertaken in two stages; first, breakwaters were constructed and then the container terminals were developed. The Deputy Minister of Ports and Highways Nirmala Kothalawala when responding to a [...]
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