Need for new methods

Agriculture plays a pivotal role in the economic development. Encouraging youth to take to agriculture, introducing new produce purchasing system and developing public-private partnership will be the key areas in the agriculture development agenda, Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane said.

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The Morning Inspection

Shall we say ‘Thank You’ to the public sector?

Some of this is true, however. The public sector has a lot of dead-weight. There are inefficiencies. Corruption. Like the private sector, one might add. Still, there are redeeming features of the public sector that these ‘Restructurists’ will either footnote or be silent about in abject deference to the masters of restructuring in the World Bank and IMF.

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On My Watch

ICG: Mouthpiece of the vendors of terror

The anniversary of the defeat of the LTTE came earlier this week, and true to form the International Crisis Group (ICG) came out with its report on Sri Lanka and Channel 4 had another “exposure” of what is alleged to be war crimes and violations of International Humanitarian Law in the military operations to defeat the LTTE.

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