Contributes to reducing rich, poor gap

The focus of the forum will be on ‘social protection policies in South Asian countries’, a very relevant theme that will afford the participating countries to discuss at length the social protection policies implemented in their respective countries.

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Let’s all observe two minutes of silence today...

Twenty four years ago, ie February 22, 1987, around 3.00 pm, I got a call from a batchmate at Peradeniya. Prabath Sahabandu, now the editor of The Island newspaper, mentioned a name and followed it with two words: Rohana gange giya (Rohana went down the river, meaning that he had drowned).

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Islandwide dog shelters :

Are we going rabid?

We are appalled to learn that money had been passed to set up islandwide shelters to hold dogs. This extremely unprogressive suggestion comes after three years of running the national dog sterilization program, which should have by now reduced the dog populations, providing long-term sustainable and cost-efficient results, if the dog sterilization program had only been conducted without allowing it to be turned into a lucrative money making racket by some contractors (this was highlighted in the Divaina Editorial of November 10, 2010 and in their first page of November 9, 2010), who monopolized the program, allegedly bribing health workers to falsify the number of sterilized dogs, thus placing the concept of sterilization as a highly successful method of dog population control into total jeopardy. We are aware that contractors who do not agree to give bribes are not awarded work.

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