Realizing the Mahinda Chinthanaya... an LSSP perspective

While we welcome the commitment of the UPFA government to welfarism, in a world that is moving away from this, the need to eliminate undeserving people from the Samurdhi net and the inclusion of those who deserve it, specially from the plantations, should be a priority. We warmly welcome the steps being taken to increase the free supply of all essential medicines in the government hospitals by implementing the Senaka Bibile Drug Policy by the Health Minister. But the health budget needs to be doubled. More attention must be given to preventive health,

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The Human Dimension

How do you respond to tough times?

When we go through the tough times, the trying circumstances, it is easy to feel disheartened. That’s the fight or flight instinct at work. We shun difficult times and if given a chance, would want to experience only the good things in life. But when we look back, we always find that the tough times have mellowed us, have made us into better, more mature individuals who would like to think over decisions, mull over life changing issues before making a commitment,

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TNA and LLRC

Whatever one may think of the LLRC and NORAD reports, it is incontrovertible that two of the three major players in the last stage of the Sri Lankan conflict have undertaken and undergone a preliminary audit of sorts - the Sri Lankan state and the Norwegians - while the third (and the second in importance) has not, and not even thought to.

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