The birth and the development of private security in Sri Lanka
THE period was early 1950s. There were two young
boys named Newton Dassanayake and Fuard Uduman studying at St.
Joseph's College. These two boys enroled themselves as Police
Reservists, that was meant for schoolchildren during the period and
were attached to the Cinnamon Garden Police.
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A new coconut pest at our doorstep
While we are struggling to combat the mighty
coconut mite that hit our coconut plantations some years ago another
invasive coconut pest is now bothering us. The Coconut Leaf Beetle
scientifically called as Brontispa longissima .
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Sri Lankan Judge in Cambodia's War Crimes Tribunal
Chandra Nihal Jayasinghe chooses his words
carefully to match the difficult task before him. He has just been
named as one of the international jurists to preside over the
special tribunal in Cambodia to try the surviving members of the
genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.
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