SL major international transport hub

Lessons from the past should not be forgotten:

At time of independence, Colombo also boasted of one of the best urban transport systems in Asia. The extensive bus operations, four well developed railway corridors, and tram cars provided adequate supply together with choice and comfort making Colombo, a city with highly developed transport services. This was a powerful combination. Colombo was truly an international transport node having in addition to its maritime hub, a national transport hub and a well developed urban transport system to support the city, a feature that very few Asian cities had at that time,

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Shifting focus

Early this week, the eyes of the world’s media were focused on the election of the President of the United States of America (generally abbreviated to the acronym ‘POTUS’), whom it commonly refers to as the ‘leader of the Free World’ and ‘the most powerful man in the world’.

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(HON) SHIRANI B, AND A BLAST FROM THE PAST

It’s glaring that the Sunday Times political correspondent’s wish that Shirani Bandarnayake will be an upright respected personality was not met when the Chief Justice continued to stay in office, despite the fact that she has the ultimate power over the Magistrate that controls the bribery hearings concerning her husband's conduct in the NSB. Those in the legal fraternity who are now fulminating against the impeachment, have refused to consider that their worst fears about Shirani Bandaranayke at the time of her appointment, appear to have come true,

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