Driving out of Colombo’s TRAFFIC congestion
Recent media reports indicated that the Police
emergency hotline unit said that heavy traffic congestion is
persisting in Colombo. According to the Police, traffic congestion
has been reported in Bastian Mawatha, technical junction and Ceramic
junction. Police said that there is traffic congestion from
technical junction and Ceramic junction towards Colombo. Therefore,
motorists were advised to use alternative routes.
 Full Story
It’s time for U.S. policy toward Sri Lanka to be more
symmetrical
Sri Lanka’s economy is growing at about a 7.5
per cent annual clip, with low inflation and a per capita income of
US$ 2,923. We are striving towards a per capita income of over
$4,000 by 2016 and are on track to surpass the United Nations
Millennium Development goals by 2015. This is remarkable, given that
Sri Lanka had a per capita income of only US$ 981 in 2003, and it
was only four years ago that it broke free from the grip of
terrorism, and is still recovering from the economic, political, and
social upheaval caused by the destructive conflict. The dividends of
peace in Sri Lanka now seem real, and the country is poised to
become the next breakout nation.
Full Story
International Relations and Security:
Conflating the West and America
The relationship between the two themes I have
been looking at in this series came home to me vividly when I read
an article by my old friend Tissa Jayatilleke about the current
situation. He too was once a leading member of the Liberal Party,
though he left the Party even earlier than Dr Saravanamuttu, when he
thought the party was being led, as he memorably put it, by its
‘Light Brigade’. He was referring I believe to the decision to work
with President Premadasa, though in fact that was principally the
decision of our Founder Chanaka Amaratunga.
Full Story
|
