Infrastructure vital for IDP resettlement

Housing units needing reconstruction/repair was nearly 19,000 in the East while in the North the number is estimated at over 230,000. Social overheads like schools, hospitals and dispensaries are other facilities that also need attention. You could see the scale of the problem that we face in regard to settlement of IDPs in the North.

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The Morning Inspection - Malinda

Eat fish; don’t complain about the heat

Fish. Hooks. Bait. Nets. Netting. Looking like a fish out of water. Election time is made for fish-related metaphors I feel, well, at least in the run up to announcement regarding candidacy. It is all about getting people into one’s boat, tossing others out, trying this and that bait on fish, little and small etc. Fun stuff I suppose. Not for the fish, when you come to think of it. The fisherman gets something, the ‘mudalali’ something more and the consumer gets a bit creamed but then enjoys a good meal, but the fish? Well, the fish get death.

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Et Tu Brute?

Tinderbox, Tick tock tick tock....:

In the aftermath of the war, patriotism is dying a slow and painful death. The country is being divided again. Bad blood is being stirred by real conflict-mongers. Was this an inevitable result of the war- could it have been avoided- can the situation still be salvaged?

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Parallel Perspectives - Phillp Fernando

Reminiscing legendary journalists of yesteryear

Many inimitable icons with uncanny news gathering skills came to mind reading Premil Ratnayake’s recent recap of Lake House days gone by. Those sleuths hunted like a bunch of voluptuous thoroughbreds hounding for that story to tell. Their deadline fever was contagious. Few legends flashed across memory lane: Clarence Fernando, Lionel Fernando and Harold Peiris. They excelled rising above the humdrum with consummate ease.

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