Launch full probe on massacre of the 600 policemen
I was rather perplexed when I read the article by former DIG B Anton Jeyanathan (the Sunday Times 2 of July 17). Categorising the mass murder of more than 600 police officers as “missing persons” is greatly downsizing the gravity of the heinous crime. The term “Missing persons” generally coupled with “involuntary removal of persons,” [...]
Nandadasa Kodagoda Memorial Oration: ‘Drug abuse in Sri Lanka
The 19th Nandadasa Kodagoda Memorial Oration, titled ‘Drug abuse in Sri Lanka – Its past, present and future’ will be delivered by Prof. Ravindra Fernando, Chairman of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board and Senior Professor of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, University of Colombo, at 5.30 p.m. on August 2 at the Sri Lanka Foundation, [...]
House donated to injured student
Housing Minister Sajith Premadasa accompanied by Western Provincial Councillor Jayantha Silva cuts the ribbon to enter a new house that was handed over to the family of a Royal College student who has been bed-ridden following a near-drowning at the school swimming pool. In May, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe handed over the entitlement of the [...]
Mangala Moonesinghe, parliamentarian, diplomat and true gentleman
Mangala Nath Moonesinghe passed away peacefully at Hemas Hospital a week ago and the cremation was held last Sunday at Kanatte amidst a big gathering who came to say a sad farewell to an ex-MP and diplomat who represented our country with great aplomb and finesse as High Commissioner in London and New Delhi (appointed [...]
He was truly a model constituency MP
By Leelananda De Silva Mangala Moonesinghe, who passed away recently at the age of 85, was one of the finest persons in the public life of this country. He was affable, self effacing, and highly principled. Never confrontational, he was largely bipartisan in his approach to politics. Although a party political figure, he reached out [...]
Antimicrobial resistance: Global security threat
By Tadataka Yamada SEATTLE – Today we are faced with the harsh reality that the treatment or prevention of infectious diseases has not made quantum advances since the early successes of vaccines and antimicrobial therapies. In a sense, the world is headed backward, as once-treatable microbes become resistant to existing therapies, and new infections for [...]
Negative publicity cannot overshadow Police Hospital’s yeoman service
By B. Anton Jeyanathan The Sri Lanka Police Hospital which caters to the medical needs of serving and retired police officers and their spouses has a long history that began in the backyard of the Lady Ridgeway Hospital in Borella. The hospital was later shifted to the Fort’s Galle Buck area. It occupied a section [...]
High profile speakers coming for LAWASIA golden jubilee
LAWASIA, (Law Association for Asia and the Pacific), will celebrate its golden jubilee at its conference hosted by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) in Colombo from August 12-15. The speakers will be drawn from more than twenty jurisdictions in Asia and the Pacific region, ensuring a lively and wide-ranging approach to material, a BASL [...]