New Year messages:

New Year brings new hopes, aspirations - Mass Media Minister

“The dawn of the New Year is a longstanding grand cultural festival which rekindles new year customs of cultural and moral value in people's hearts and trains them to fit into modern society,” states Mass Media and Information Minister Dr Keheliya Rambukwella in a New Year message.

Mass Media and Information Minister Dr Keheliya Rambukwella

The New Year brightens people's lives with new hopes and aspirations enlightens the whole country with jubilation and invokes blessings for a journey towards building a new Sri Lanka.

“It helps rebuild severed social relations, cement relations with friends and relatives and promotes positive social tendencies like launching work at a given time for a set of objectives, respect for elders which all helped create a civilized nation.

“As a people nurtured with moral and spiritual values, Sri Lankans have built a national culture which had outsmarted all other cultures. Uninterrupted observance of New Year customs and traditions will help protect and conserve Sri Lankan culture and stabilize peace and good virtues.

“During this festive season all sections of the media have taken steps to inculcate new year customs and traditions and cultural norms among society including the new generation. It is the duty of elders in particular to teach the essence of new year customs to the children and prevent them from falling prey to meaningless gimmicks.

“While joining hands to enjoy the dawn of new year in unison, let us all perform our duty towards the motherland by uniting to thwart and overcome all challenges posed to the country.

“If we made this our new year resolution we will be able to make Sri Lanka a prosperous and proud nation.

“Wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year”.