Prevent Roadkill; it could be your own
Roadkill is not a word familiar to Sri Lankans but, is well known in Australia, Canada and the United States. The reference is made in respect of animals such as kangaroo and deer killed by speeding motorists mainly by accident and in some instances, deliberately. Whichever way it happens, it is looked at with compassion [...]
Events
Friendship among the people: Guangdong China-Sri Lanka Tourism seminar By Vinusha Paulraj Known to be China’s South gate, the history-heavy province of Guangdong is soon to be a travel friendly location for Sri Lankans. Officials from Guangdong visiting the island last week held discussions with the local travel authorities, with the hopes of promoting tourism [...]
Foreign policy and the election
My previous article had drawn a distinction between the foreign policy pursued by the President Rajapaksa government after 2009 as one of confrontation with the West and disengagement with the United Nations and the international system as against the rebalancing witnessed following the assumption of office of the new government after January 8 this year [...]
Police performance and the missing link in 19A
Tassie Seneviratne’s (TS) article in the Sunday Times has directly raised the issue of police performance. More specifically, TS was talking of mal-performance, mis-performance and non-performance of the police due to failure of supervision. The purpose of this article is to expand on the views of TS that failure of performance is simply failure of [...]
Yeah right! Sarcasm poses problem for US election
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court upheld same-sex weddings in the same week that South Carolina debated keeping a controversial Civil War battle flag, Twitter user @xTomatoez posted “Gay marriage and the Confederate flag going down everywhere. Tough week for your redneck uncle on Facebook.” The poster had no idea his tweet was [...]
A transparent president – at last!
Finally we have a transparent president who has put the nation before party and working for fairness, equality and protection of public property. These qualities are truly public friendly. It may not, however, please some officials and politicians who thrive on secrecy, unfairness and inequality. Almost all of our politicians including ‘Yahapalana’ leaders fall far [...]
The great and the good
The passing of Mark Amerasinghe four months ago opened up a painful void in the warm and wondrously rich and fulfilling friendship that he, together with his family, had so generously shared with my family and me over many good and blessed years. It is, of course, entirely natural that when, as they inevitably must, [...]