The Island newspaper of 1ST Nov. 2021 published on the front page ‘Sabri likely to quit justice portfolio’, as without his knowledge Ven. Gnanasara Thera, a...
Residents of Negombo were enraged this morning Oct 31, to be woken at 4am by a maximum volume barrage of Catholic Masses broadcast from tannoy speakers...
MPs of Pohottuwa now have a habit of ridiculing their colleagues from other parties. They talk a lot about Pohottuwa and its so-called creator, Basil R....
My parents were not teachers. My father was a Chief Jailer in the Prisons Department and mother a housewife, and a strict disciplinarian. In our childhood,...
Tourism is an important aspect of our ecomomy; hence all tourists, irrespective of vavccinated, or not, should be permitted to arrive in Sri Lanka, if the...
Apropos Panduka Karunanayake’s (PK) article under the above caption (The Island – 28.10.2021) I would like to respond as he has invited readers to do so....
The above-captioned comment is another of a series of excellent editorials, conveying the feelings of the people but it is doubtful whether the authorities with the...
By I. P. C. MENDIS The Chinese, despite their ideology, do sometimes take Western thoughts seriously.- ” Waste not, want not”. ! A peep into the...
Occupants of flats, in the past, were able to dispose of their household garbage in the built –in unit of the flat meant for the disposal...
Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith told journalists on the Sarakku Beach the other day: ‘The biggest malady our society is afflicted with is the commissions...