Sri Lanka could have been a beneficiary of exporting to USA under its Generalised System (or Scheme) of Preferences or GSP which expired on 31 December 2020. GSP, established in 1974, had a dual ...

Promote Diversity and Inclusion: Diversity brings a range of perspectives that enrich policymaking. Inclusion fosters a sense of belonging and ensures that all Sri Lankans have a stake in their future ...

“They were careless people… They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people ...

This is our Lenten Season. By my father’s regimen, we had at home fish and no meat on Lenten weekdays and not even fish on Fridays. But Sunday was feast day. The vegetarian Nallur Bhavan gives good ...

The world that supports the Rule-Based International Order anticipates a bold new foreign aid strategy from the Trump administration. Sri Lanka, given its pivotal geo-strategic location within the ...

Open banking allows players to instantly deposit or withdraw money to and from their betting accounts without using their credit/ debit card details. The casino operator can instantly pay out the ...

While former President Ranil Wickremesinghe ‘s name could not be divorced from the subject, his culpability, his alleged guilt and his alleged vicarious involvement in the cruel acts committed upon ...

However, those angry words of that Palestinian mother quoted above might as well be rephrased as “Wake up Muslims! Shame on you”. Almost one quarter of world population today are Muslims and almost ...

The recent appointment of the Tourism Advisory Committee by the NPP government has sparked discussion within Sri Lanka’s tourism industry. While the move has been widely publicized, many questions ...

In any other country, the doctors would have decided to unite with the State in its search for the perpetrator, an effort which becomes more effective if supported by the public. The State (the police ...

Emerging world economic order. The emerging world economic order – now tagged as Trumporder after its initiator – has turned the economic policy package advocated by IMF and W ...

The Batalanda Commission report which goes into details of what happened during the JVP insurrection of 1987-89 has become the centre of public attention. The controversy has long been a point of ...