Rev. Fr. Don Linus Charles Paul Kurukula Aratchi hails from a respectable background, from Ampitiya, in the highly reputed Kandyan Kingdom. He, who was affectionately called...
The Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) was established under Parliamentary Act No. 14 of 1971. The vision of the PMB is to be a leading National Institution...
By Krishantha Prasad Cooray In many ways, the economic collapse of Sri Lanka became a near certainty in the weeks after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected President....
An open letter to the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Minister, You have recently, on several occasions, indicated your desire to lift the highly ill- conceived ban...
As Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union passed away, a remarkable Pizza Hut advert filmed in 1997 resurfaced. In the ad, Gorbachev walked...
I read The Island editorial of 09 Sept., and feel comforted that we still have some intrepid journalists who can call a spade a spade without...
On 09 August 2022, Direction Sri Lanka issued a Statement with the title “Country First : The Way Forward for Sri Lanka” articulating its Statement with...
In yesterday’s (12) edition of The Island was a front-page news report that the government intended to seek a loan from India to print school-text books for 2023.The distribution of...
Author: Tara de Mel Reviewed by Rajiva Wijesinha Tara de Mel, who was the moving spirit behind educational reforms in the late nineties, has finally broken...
Foreign Policy and Strategic Affairs This is a research paper published by the New Delhi-based think-tank the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) The two Rajapaksa administrations (MR/2010-15)...