Ruwanwella water supply project Phase 1 completed
Phase I of the Ruwanwella Water Supply Project, an initiative made possible through the financial assistance of the Korea Exim Bank’s Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) and the technical expertise of Kolon Global Corporation was completed and handed over to the public on May 28. The project provides access to safe, treated drinking water to [...]
Genocide in Gaza: The truth needs to be told
While Palestinians are being dehumanised and eliminated in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, one aspect that receives less attention is objective narration. The war certainly did not begin on October 7, 2023, despite the agenda-driven Western and Israeli-friendly media repeatedly parroting this claim to shape public perception. With the Western media twisting the Palestinian narration, [...]
“Shepherdian Chapel Chimes”
Past Shepherdians of Kotahena rally round the chapel Begun in the year 1869, Good Shepherd Convent, Kotahena is one of the oldest premier girls’ schools in the country and, over the decades, thousands of girls have passed through her portals. The reverend sisters and the chapel have been the heart and soul of the school. [...]
Rev Shamindra Jayawardena elected Abbot General
The Most Rev Dr Shamindra Jayawardena OSB has been elected as the Abbot General (Superior General) of the Sylvestro Benedictine Congregation. He becomes the 119th successor of St Sylvester Guzzolini, Abbot, the founder of the monastic order. Born on January 13, 1972, he took his first vows of the monastic order on August 15, 1992, [...]
Louis: A people’s journalist, unsung humanitarian and peace activist
A mass and memorial service were held at St. Benedict’s College hall on May 23 to celebrate the life of the veteran journalist and social justice activist, the late Louis Benedict. Fr. Noel Dias and Fr. Lasantha de Abrew conducted the service, accompanied by the college choir. Mr. Benedict’s long-time friend and journalistic colleague, Ameen [...]
Sixteen years later…
Each year around May 19, I cannot help musing about the events that took place in our country sixteen years ago. On that fateful day of May 19 in 2009, Sri Lanka’s armed forces finally defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In the process they eliminated not only the LTTE’s supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran [...]
The high cost of our GDP obsession
Project Syndicate, Exclusive to the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka NEW YORK – In mainstream economics, description is routinely treated as secondary to analysis. Labelling a work as “purely descriptive” conveys dismissiveness. Yet, as Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen observed in a seminal 1980 paper, every act of description involves choices. Whether we are describing [...]