Serving nation for better future

Sri Lanka freedom Party’s origins lie in the political climate that prevailed in the island ever since Bandaranaike returned from the UK. The Ceylon National Congress which was the dominant political group of that time was monopolized by the old guard.

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The Morning Inspection

I feel sorry for the ‘yaalu bhoothaya’ of 2002-2004

The ‘motherless child’ or the singer/lyricist who felt like one, according to the song, is ‘a long ways from home’. He felt, we are told that he’s ‘almost gone’. The reference is to death: ‘way up in de heab’nly land’, meaning of course a post-death situation.

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War against dengue

Timely decision by the Health Ministry to prioritize dengue control:

Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was the first country in whole of Asia to commence DDT spraying covering the entire malarious area of the country. Since then the country no longer suffered the regular periodic Malaria epidemics which were witnessed during the pre-DDT era, nevertheless, the post-DDT era too witnessed several epidemics during which the deaths caused by Malaria illness were minimal, if not negligible.

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