Private medical colleges: Don’t make it a business
The controversy-ridden South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) was the topic of a recent lecture delivered by eminent Senior Surgeon Prof. A.H. Sheriffdeen as the guest-of-honour at the foundation sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA). Excerpts: One of the objectives of the SLMA is to play an advocacy role in the [...]
International migrant’s day and Sri Lanka
By Andrew Samuel As we celebrate international migrant’s day (IMD) today, it is appropriate to reflect on the 1.8 million migrant workers who have for the longest time contributed to the national coffers by way of wage remittances. The significance of this day is that it originated with some Asian migrants and civil society organisations [...]
Confronting the next global health challenge
By Jörg Reinhardt ZURICH – Thanks to unprecedented international cooperation, the world is making impressive progress in the fight against malaria. According to the World Health Organization’s just-released 2016 World Malaria Report, malaria mortality rates among children under age five have fallen by 69% since 2000. And this progress is not limited to malaria. Many [...]
Anoma’s ‘Mi Casa Es Tu Casa’ at CAB: A celebration of unity in diversity
“How will 2016 be recorded in the annals of the future? An annus horribilis of historic proportion perhaps? Will this be the pivotal year when notions of humanity, integrity and liberal ideals succumbed to the base instincts of our lesser selves? As I watched with growing disbelief and alarm the events of 2016 develop, so [...]
Biography of politician and philanthropist L. C. De Silva launched
The biography of the late L.C. De Silva, former Member of Parliament for Balapitiya and Ambalangoda electorates from 1965 to 1977 was launched on December 4 at the Sri Lanka Foundation auditorium, in the presence of a large gathering. Southern Provincial Council Member Ven Baddegama Samitha Thera delivered the keynote address, on the book authored [...]
‘A Green Christmas’ by St. Benedict’s College
St. Benedict’s College, Colombo 13 will host its annual Carol Service titled “A Green Christmas” on Tuesday, December 20 at St. Lucia’s Cathedral Kotahena. This inclusive service will contain the very best in classical Christmas music and is expected to last no more than one hour and 30 minutes. The entrance procession will commence at [...]
Book signing on Christmas eve
Ashok Ferrey will be signing copies of his new book ‘The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons’ all day at Odel on Christmas Eve, December 24 and at Barefoot on New Year’s Eve, December 31.
Fun- filled two-day mini lit fest for children
While the main Fairway Galle Literary Festival 2017 brings the Galle Fort area to life, the MAS Galle Children’s Programme, has crafted a two-day mini lit fest on Saturday, January 14 and Sunday January 15, at the Thomas Galle School, to once again offer a fun and engaging series of workshops for younger festival-goers. Tailoring [...]
Rukshan launches latest DVD
Popular musician Rukshan Perera launched his latest DVD – Rukshan Perera Live In Concert VI on DVD. The DVD, his third was launched at Curve Bar, Park Street Mews on December 14 in aid of Sunera Foundation that promotes disability arts. The songs are all Rukshan’s compositions and arrangements in different styles and genres – [...]
Cops on the “chopping block”
By B. Anton Jeyanathan The police service has been severely criticized on a regular basis for the omissions and commissions of senior and junior officers. With the budget proposal the insinuations and the mudslinging, mostly against traffic policemen, have been uncharitable. It has been claimed in newspaper articles, cartoons and interviews with members of the [...]
Israeli-Palestinian conflict heads for 50 years of UN failure
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS – Come 2017, the United Nations will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the world’s longstanding unresolved political problems firmly entrenched on the UN agenda: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dating back to the Six Day War in June 1967. When Antonio Guterres takes over as the new UN Secretary-General on [...]