By Ranee Mohamed We didn’t have to say ‘’cheese’ to make Chef Rohan Fernandopulle smile, he had reached his goals and beyond. His team emerging as winners at the recently concluded Culinary Arts Competition is but one ingredient in Rohan Fernandopulle’s recipe for success. In the Hilton Hotel in Colombo Executive Chef Fernandopulle walks around, [...]
By Gerard D. Muttukumaru In the new, evolving global knowledge economy, especially during a downturn or severe economic crisis, all organizations must realise that to survive and prosper they must develop a global mindset within, examine everything they have done in the past and redefine their organisations. They cannot stand still. How they did business [...]
Coming down Galle Road from Galle Face towards Liberty Plaza, one often wonders as to who planned those traffic lights. Very often when it is green, one cannot move because the traffic entering the Liberty Plaza area from Galle Road Kollupitiya blocks the movement of the traffic from Galle Road from the Galle Face end. [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara – Photo by Thusitha Kumara North Colombo UNP Chief Organiser and MP Ravi Karunanayake has been accused of not nominating Sajith Premadasa loyalists at the forthcoming Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) election. It is alleged that Karunanayake for no reason had deleted the names of Premadasa loyalists from the nomination papers before they [...]
The bourse buttressed by the Government controlled EPF and alleged manipulators, gained by 40.25 points (0.6%) on the benchmark ASI and 28.77 points (0.5%) on the more sensitive MPI in the last two trading days of last week, a market source told this newspaper. This was after those indices collapsed by 138.93 points (2%) and [...]
“In trying to do good, we have been living beyond our moral resources and have fallen into hypocrisy and self-righteousness” — William V. Cannon, commenting on the Vietnam War, New York Times, February 6, 1966 “Conquer the angry man by love, Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar [...]
In mid 2008 the world plunged into an economic recession with devastating consequences throughout the world. The crisis apparently started in the USA. It was a man-made crisis and it came apparently without a prior warning. Surprisingly, even the economists world over, who are engaged in the day to day affairs of global finances could [...]
Oil And Gas Exploration Under Economic Development Ministry By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The government’s decision to grant tax exemptions to Indian based Cairn Lanka (Private) Limited’s project to explore for oil and gas in the Mannar Basin is to result in approximately a 28 percent loss in the country’s income through the oil exploration programme. [...]
Holmes Pollard & Stott, one of Sri Lanka’s leading advertising agencies, has appointed Ms. Subashini Loganathan as its new COO. She joined Holmes15 years ago as a coordinator. Her grandfather was the first Sri Lankan General Manager for Bank of Ceylon and C. Nadesan also her grandfather was Indian Overseas Bank Country Manager. Loganathan was [...]
Central Investments and Finance (CIFL) after a successful IPO recently shows signs of strategic focus and confidence in their core business area of microfinance. People’s Bank (PB) Ex General Manager and CEO P.V. Pathirana joined the company as an independent non-executive director to further strengthen this strategic focus in microfinance. Speaking on his vision for [...]
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