by ECB Wijeyesinghe When the sun comes over the mountains, Washington DC in August can be as hot as – well, as Colombo in April. For...
by ACB Pethiyagoda In the past few weeks much has appeared in the newspapers about plantations: worker’s union leaders demanding wage increases for their members (with...
by Eric. J. de Silva The Ministry of Education was a totally new experience. When I called over at the Ministry to meet Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe,...
by HUGH KARUNANAYAKE Thirty seven years ago, on 13 April 1985, the British Prime Minister of the day Mrs Margaret Thatcher during her visit to Sri...
by Kumar David An optimist would venture to say that an economic catastrophe is not imminent, using the adjective imminent literally. He would be emboldened to...
The evil that men do lives after them, I quote only half of the sentiment Marc Antony insightfully made in his superb eulogy to the stabbed...
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY By Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum...
Forty years ago this week on a flight from London to Auckland the unthinkable happened. As a British Airways Boeing 747 cruised at 37,000 feet on...
by Rajan Philips In a series of public rallies and speeches last week, both the JVP and the SJB have started calling upon the Ranil-Rajapaksa government...
by Leelananda de Silva From the time of independence, there has been agitation against sterling company estates. There were complaints that they were a colonial imposition,...