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Colombo, February 15: Private sector investment and involvement in developing ports emerged as a significant requirement in the 1980s. By this time, many ports had become bottlenecks to the efficient distribution chains of which they are an essential component. Government investments into port development was categorized as 'White Elephant Syndrome' due to the following three main problems, illustrated by port congestion and consequent chronic service failures, contributed to the gradual deterioration of service quality during this period. The first reason for a lack of port service quality w...

Unpacking Port Patriotism: Lack Of Internal Process & Its External Effects Rajan Philips The first consequential announcement that the ECT deal is kaput came from Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Early last week he was reported to have assured the port workers that the East Container Terminal (marked East on the map) “will neither be sold to any country nor handed over to any country for administration.” The PM’s announcement came as a surprise to everyone, most of all to the Indian High Commission in Colombo. It was not clear if, when and how India and Japan were formally advised of ...

By Ifham Nizam More than 100 villagers with the backing of local politicians yesterday started clearing forests at the Dahayiyagala sanctuary despite objections from some 50 Wildlife department officers. A Wildlife Officer told The Island these lands come under the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance and any human activity there was illegal. The Rally for Animal Rights and Environment (RARE) said that a campaign to clear 300 acres of forest had been launched. “ An environmental Scientist warned the forest clearance would aggravate the human-elephant conflict. The Island on its Friday edit...

February 06, 2021 00:02 IST Updated: February 06, 2021 00:02 IST Updated: February 06, 2021 00:18 IST India and Japan are important donors, and Sri Lanka must try and salvage the ECT deal Share Article AAA India and Japan are important donors, and Sri Lanka must try and salvage the ECT deal The Rajapaksa government’s decision to overturn Sri Lanka’s tripartite agreement to develop Colombo’s East Container Terminal is a setback to India and Japan. The project, worth an estimated $500-$700 million, was a key marker for infrastructure investment in the island nation where Chinese project...

Geneva, Rajapaksa Regime & Myanmar Shadows The darkness of night is the close companion of dictators. ~ (Hafez, Divan) (Quoted in Kim Ghattas, Black Wave, London, 2020, p.31) Within a period of just over one year the Rajapaksa regime, headed by two septuagenarian siblings with different professional traits – one, a military man, and the other, a crass politician, but both beholden to a Sinhala Buddhist supremacist ideology that is shredding Sri Lankan society into pieces, has driven the country into a cauldron of crises, from public health and economy to ecology and human rights and to ...