IMF Resident Representative Dr. Koshy Mathai made an interesting observation at a seminar in Colombo the other day. He said that the price of milk here was the same as in the USA. In effect Third World Sri Lankans are paying First World American or US prices for their milk (whether it be powdered or [...]
The past week provided a mixed bag of emotions for three generations of my immediate family: for myself, for a middle-aged daughter returning to the land of her birth after 36 years and a young adult, granddaughter making a first visit to a South Asian country. Yala National Park provided a great deal of excitement: [...]
The UN Human Rights office is calling for an investigation into the death of a prominent human rights defender, Pattani Razeek, whose body was exhumed last week. “We hope that investigation and prosecution of this crime will now be expedited, and that there will be similar progress in resolving the many thousands of outstanding cases [...]
India’s outgoing Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao says Sri Lanka must look into the allegations of human rights violations very carefully. In an interview with India’s Headlines Today, Friday night, Rao commented on the Channel 4 video on Sri Lanka and said that the alleged human rights violations cannot be justified. “They have to look at [...]
By Easwaran Rutnam Blood was dripping from the head of Uthayan news editor Gnasundaram Kuganathan as he came home shouting in pain after two men had brutally attacked him, stated the Jaffna based Uthayan newspaper, quoting his wife. Gnasundaram Kuganathan, was assaulted by an unidentified group of men while he was returning home on Friday [...]
News editor of the Uthayan newspaper Gnasundaram Kuganathan (55) who was assaulted on Friday evening in Jaffna is in critical condition at the Jaffna hospital, the Uthayan staff told The Sunday Leader. A journalist at the newspaper said that the attack took place just as the news editor was returning home from work late on [...]
The Sunday Leader is proudly Sri Lankan. As Lasantha Wickremetunge wrote in his posthumous editorial, “the Leader is there for you, be you Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, low-caste, homosexual, dissident or disabled”. This is the inclusive Sri Lanka in which we believe, and towards which we labor. The government may call us traitors, but it is [...]
I can see new happenings down Galle Road, near the Elasto signboard in Bambalapitiya. There are more one way happenings taking place down Galle Road, and the Vajira Road area too is subject to changes that are made by the authorities without any consultation with the common man. Obviously those who make these plans for [...]
Like many consumers, I am one who spends much time at the supermarket solely because they let us choose what we want to buy. Unfortunately, there are some practices in supermarkets that really put consumers off. Common among them is to have five or six counters with three of them being closed. Why is it [...]
To obtain the actual truth behind the power cuts call upon the System Control Center (SCC) of the CEB to explain the reason they emptied reservoirs which were full by passing the computer programmes which they should follow for each reservoir. These programmes are made taking into account the previous average weighted rainfall figures in [...]
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