BY DR. Asoka Bandarage On September 1, 2022, debt-trapped Sri Lanka reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a 48-month Extended Fund...
By Gwynne Dyer “We appear to be witnessing a dramatic and childlike scenario,” said Pope Francis, in Bahrain, recently. “In the garden of humanity, instead of...
By Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe parajayasinghe@gmail.com In February this year, I published an article titled, Sri Lankan Electricity Sector – The Headless Chicken (https://www.ft.lk/columns/Sri-Lankan-electricity-sector-The-headless-chicken/4-730564), and that was...
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca...
by Eir Nolsoe Feelings of being overworked and underpaid prompted Rachel James, 29, and her partner to leave their jobs as doctors in the NHS to...
Ena de Silva’s 100th birth centenary fell on Excerpted from Exploring with Ena by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Towards the end of 2019 I spent a couple...
Excerpted from volume ii of Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography One of the important pledges made by the UNP at the 1977 election was the abolition of the...
SOME NOTES ON ROYALIST SONS OF THOMIAN FATHERS By Rajakeeya The perennial debate that sparks off when old Royalists and old Thomians meet often centre round...
by Rajan Philips The Island editorial on Thursday wondered whether the current debate in parliament is on Budget (2023) or Buddhism. What is beyond wondering is...
by Hugh Karunanayake Anna Florentina Dias Bandaranaike was the elder daughter of the wealthy Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike and was born at the turn of the...