The then UNP government increased the subsidised price of a measure of raw rice in 1953. The red shirts (Trotskytes and Marxists) led protests against the increase. Work stoppages resulted. A hartal was staged on August 12, 1953 – burning tyres and disrupting transport with people taking to the streets in violent protest. The police [...]
When all the medical professionals are advising consumers to eat more fish and less of red meat, it is upto the government and the corruption control authorities in Sri Lanka to make things easy for the consumer. But instead what do we get? Firstly the price of fish is throttling the consumer. The cost we [...]
Apropos the suggestions outlined in the Leader of Feb. 26 – it is evident that, as usual, the Board has the wrong attitude and blaming and burdening the normal family user of electricity. It is clearly a way of looking at things ‘in the dark’ if I may state. There are many blatant abusers, quite [...]
Numerous letters have been written to the newspapers complaining about the changing of long accepted road names. I have yet to see a single letter supporting the practice. This letter is to highlight an aspect that has not been previously mentioned. Frequently the new name is that of someone who is alive today; for example [...]
A prescription must be legibly written, is the advice given to prescribers by the British National Formulary. In the practice of their profession, pharmacists are confronted with a large number of prescriptions which are scrawled or scribbled perfunctorily to the disadvantage of patients and pharmacists. Pharmacists have to fight shy of dispensing any drug which [...]
There are a multitude of problems at the Soysapura Housing Scheme. But the problem is that there is no one to tell. However, bills, assessment dues and such other payments have to be made on time. The roads are broken down. The facilities poor. The staircases of the flats are not maintained. When it rains, [...]
I have noticed that there are one hundred and fifty road rules these days. But as a pedestrian, I wish to ask a very relevant question. Before the police and the motorists blame pedestrians for crosssing the road from here and there, how many pedestrian crossings are around; and how far apart are they situated. [...]
In Sri Lanka, the Police commemoration day falls on the 21st day of March each year. The occasion is celebrated with much solemn pomp and pageantry by the Police department, to honour and remember the police officers and men who have paid the supreme price in the discharge of their onerous duties to protect citizens [...]
Our political environment seems to be proliferating with empty rhetoric rather than practical measures to alleviate the problems of the general public. One such instance is the home garden promotion concept initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture during the tenure of Maithripala Sirisena. All electronic and print media went to town about the so-called ambitious [...]
Some of the retired Central Bankers(CB), (in a daily newspaper) as an inheritance call, rightly so, has defended their bank colleagues from some attacks made on the appointments of retired persons, but sadly when their colleagues were ignored in the appointment of the Head of the Institution, no protests or newspaper letters appeared. Not even [...]
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