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We are a people trapped in a fake democracy. I do not have to prove my statement. It is self-evident. We have a government that has no mandate from the people. This government ruined the agriculture of the country, defaulted on international loans, robbed the country to bankruptcy, with the economy ground to a halt […]
I have returned after two days at the Sri Jayawardenanapura hospital (SJH) and have much to commend on how it is run.I was not that ill and was able to observe the working of this great institution at firsthand. Thousands of people throng this place every day for different illness requiring observations, tests and whatever. […]
People’s Bank, a pioneer in the Sri Lankan Banking and Financial Services sector, celebrates its 61st anniversary today (July 1) Instrumental in introducing the concept of banking to the general public in Sri Lanka, People’s Bank has continued with that responsibility further by providing digital banking services even to the most rural areas in the […]
Posted on April 8th, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardene accomplished much in food and agriculture during his short stay of three years in the MEP government. These are described at length in other essays in this series. This essay looks at certain aspects of Philip’s vision. Philip studied the rural sector carefully. Philip said that the peasantry had many problems, poverty, indebtedness, need for credit, lack of scientific techniques of production, and marketing facilities. Two main obstacles to agricultural progress were the backwardness of the agricultu...