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The credit of elimination of many deadly diseases in the known history – smallpox, malaria and polio – goes to western science. When the malaria epidemic raged in Sri Lanka, mainly in the Sabaragamuwa and northwestern provinces in the 1830s, nearly 80,000 people died out of a population of some six million. Sufferings of people were immense, and more than hunger, in some places there was no one to bury the dead. The leaders of the leftist movements at the time, took the lead in providing re...

I am writing this in response to the news item in your paper of 26 January 2021 under the caption, “GMOA seeks university admission for medical students at the age of 18”. This communication from me is practically from the horse’s mouth; from someone who, so many eons ago in 1965, benefitted by being allowed the privilege of joining the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, as a novice Medical Student, at the tender age of 18 years and two months. I sat the GCE (A/L) Examination in D...

Australian Bauxite Ltd (ASX:ABX) Alcore Permanent CEO Appointment    FRA:A7B) is pleased to advise that Dr Mark Cooksey has permanently joined ABxs technology subsidiary ALCORE Limited (Alcore). Dr Cooksey was first appointed General Manager of Alcore (ASX 24 January 2020) and then CEO (ASX 24 August 2020), on a leave arrangement from Australias national science agency, CSIRO. This appointment is now permanent, and he will lead Alcores development and commercialisation of a new process fo...

Crawford University mourns Pro-Chancellor, Ibidapo-Obe The vice-chancellor described the late professor emeritus as a philanthropist and warm-hearted man who had contributed immensely to the growth of Crawford University. ADVERTISEMENT The Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State, on Wednesday described the death of its third Pro-Chancellor and member of the Board of Trustees, Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe as a rude shock. Mr Ibidapo-Obe, a professor of Systems Engineering, was appointed Pro-Chancellor of...

Doctoral College Summary Young people in care face many challenges in terms of their physical and mental health (McSherry et al., 2015; 2016).  They are disproportionately children of single mothers who themselves are likely to have been in care due to experiencing child maltreatment, suggesting a pattern of intergenerational transmission of maltreatment and trauma (McSherry et al., 2010; Stratford, Julian & Shelley, 2019). Data from the Department of Education (2015) indicates that 25% of gi...

Doctoral College Summary Reflecting the global popularity of gambling among young people, youth participation in football betting has risen exponentially across sub-Saharan Africa in recent years. This has been facilitated by the spread and prevalence of mobile technology; the widespread popularity of football aided by satellite media broadcasting; weak macro-level regulatory regimes; and a recognition by the sports betting industry that African youth constitute a potentially lucrative market. ...