Sri Lanka’s post- conflict future

Road to reconciliation:

Firstly, we have done much more in the last five years in terms of basic infrastructure. While infrastructure alone is not enough, without it there could be no development, in particular in areas deprived of basic connectivity for so long. Secondly, we have begun to attract the kind of investment the country deserves and are able to direct it towards regions that suffered from neglect previously. I mean not only areas previously under terrorist sway, but also those areas full of promise in the south and the northwest that successive governments neglected, because their leadership was immovably urban.

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Sick channelling in hospitals

I wish to respond to Nadira Gunatilleke’s views on the above subject that appeared in the Daily News ‘HealthWatch’ feature on September 13 and 20 . I am a frequent visitor to the channel centres in Kandy and at times in Colombo for the last several years. Fortunately I did not face this situation in the Glass House or Nawaloka and in Kandy Channel Centres this situation never arose. There are times that doctors arrive a little later than a schedule. This happens due to unavoidable traffic jams or exigencies of their duties in the hospitals they work.

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Some days dress up for greater meaning

Back To BASICS - Renton de Alwis

Days have a way of coming and going. Some remain in our memory, for they are special for each of us. Yet others are given meaning and are stored away in our memory for reasons beyond the self. Some have greater impact on us individually and collectively than others. Some days become crowded, busy, tiring and loose impact. Others, we retain, cling on to and commit on for action, much beyond the self.

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