‘Empower fish farmers with means and voice’ – President

The commitment of the Asian political leadership is essential to collectively overcome the challenges faced by fisheries and aquaculture at present, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa, delivering the keynote address at the Asian Regional Ministerial Meeting on Aquaculture for Food Security, Nutrition and Economic Development yesterday at the Hilton Hotel, Colombo.

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A tribute to my friends gifted with words they seldom use

Not everyone ends up doing what he or she was trained to do. Sometimes it seems that life is nothing but unanticipated reinventions of self. Bends in the road don’t always come pre-announced. We rejoice in the circumstances we find ourselves in, congratulate ourselves if this is where we planned to be and worked to get to, resign ourselves to living out our remaining useful days doing what we do because we cannot do the things we like to do out of skill-lack or opportunity-lack.

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Educate children for life

As we all know education is an investment for the future. Commercial investments bring interest and rewards for better living. That is the main reason why people invest their hard earned money in the banks and other financial institutions as lucrative business. In this money-spinning trade people sometimes become rich overnight. There are occasions when people lose their entire wealth and end up on to the road for having made foolish shortsighted decisions. In the recent past we learnt how people invested their hard earned money trusting certain scamps and how they lost their wealth in a jiffy.

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