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I’m selling fish, catching fish, people call me fisherman |
| The lifting of fishing restrictions last week in the north after 20 years has brought smiles and benefits to the war-hit fishing community and consumers. With more fishermen out in the sea, prices of fish have dropped drastically. In northern fish vadiyas, seer is sold at Rs. 200 a kilo, prawns at Rs 150 and crabs at Rs. 75. Earlier most of these varieties were selling at over Rs. 1,000 a kilo. Above a scene captured at the market in Kodaddi, Jaffna yesterday. By N. Parmeswaran |
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| An artist, his garden of many creatures and creations |
| When young Noel Brian Ranasinghe and his band got into coloured sarongs, straw-hats and with bare feet sang a strange kind of baila, it was not unusual for people to call them all sorts of names like ‘Malu Karayas’ or ‘Rasthiyadu Karayas’. |
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| IRD to tax Golden Key and depositors |
| The cash-strapped Sri Lankan government has directed the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) to recover all taxes payable by the Golden Credit card company and its depositors numbering around 7,200, a move that would dismay depositors. |
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| T20 in retrospect |
| What is this world coming to? The respected Cricinfo reporting team have picked their T20 top Xl sans a single cricketer either from the pre-cup favourites Australia or India .. |
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| Structured amnesty for Tigers |
| Guidelines for a structured amnesty to LTTE suspects and their sympathisers are being drawn up by the government’s legal departments. |
| Lanka furious over Lord’s attacks |
| The Sri Lankan High Commission in Britain has formally lodged a protest with the Home Office in London over what it termed ‘lethargy’ by the local police in dealing with pro-LTTE elements who physically attacked more than two dozen Sri Lankan cricket fans , including women, after the T20 World Cup final at Lords last Sunday. |
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| Democracy in peril |
| For a Government on a tidal wave of popularity, backed by a largely friendly media, the re-activation of the draconian 1973 Press Council Law which has the powers to send publishers and journalists to jail must surely mean that it sees imaginary demons ahead. |
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| “Pata”, “pata”, and a bloody tragedy unfolds |
A toddler has just woken up from his sleep and his heart-rending lisp of “Amma” rises above the hushed whispers of a crowd gathered at his home and the twitter of a large number of exotic birds. |
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| The brothers at war |
| Nuno Prayer de Andrado, who was at the stores, was greatly disturbed when he heard of the plot of the Malabars. |
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