Month: February 2023

EDUCATING SRI LANKA

WHITHER EDUCATION? Credentials of tertiary education institutes must be scrutinised BY Goolbai Gunasekara Never has education in Sri Lanka been so disorganised. This is not entirely the fault of the Department of Education. The island’s…

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2022

Compelled to Declare Bankruptcy Asia’s oldest democracy turns insolvent The writing had been on the wall, hidden in plain sight for those with eyes to see. But the jury is still out on whether it…

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2022

Sri Lankan Thespian Wins Olivier Award Wins ‘Best Actor’ for his stage portrayal of Pi “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” wrote the immortal Swan of Avon over…

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2020

Sri Lankan Naturalist Honoured by Science Sri Lanka’s first to have a genus named after him “What’s in a name?” asked one of William Shakespeare’s most iconic characters, Juliet, waxing eloquent additionally: “That which we…

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2020

COVID-19 Alarm Rings in Sri Lanka ‘Patient Zero’ is a 44-year-old foreigner The great poet had one of his most tortured characters say: “When troubles come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” But…

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2019

A Sri Lankan Becomes President of the MCC Sangakkara first non-Brit to helm the club If you ask an islander to name someone who he or she thinks is a ‘world-class Sri Lankan,’ chances are…

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2019

Sri Lanka Reels from Easter Sunday Attacks Bombs rip through buildings on holy day Many believers were in church on 21st April when news of bomb attacks on fellow worshippers filtered through in text and…

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2018

First LLC to Cross US$ 1 Billion Mark Hayleys enjoys a record 2017/18 financial year There are many ways for a Sri Lankan business house to make its mark and demonstrate that it is a…

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2016

Sri Lanka in Top Ten List of Destinations The ‘Pearl of Indian Ocean’ gains exposure Once discovered, you must explore. At least, that’s what traveller Marco Polo – who once described Sri Lanka as “the…

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2014

Sri Lanka Wins its First T20 World Cup Swashbuckling batsmen back the bowlers The minnows of the cricketing world as they were at the time became sharks in Lahore in 1996, the year Sri Lanka…

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