Category: Watch Tower

Apr. 27 (AFP) – Five headless corpses were found in central Sri Lanka but police said Thursday the incident was not linked to the island’s conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels.The bodies were found in two places about 80 kilometres (50 miles) east of the capital, police said. “We suspect they may have been killed due […]

Apr. 27 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s Tamil separatist conflict is rooted in the nation’s history, but the past three decades have been the bloodiest on an island colonised by Europeans and invaded by Indians.At least 60,000 people have been killed since minority Tamils took up arms in 1972, about 24 years after the Indian Ocean […]

Every time the telecom sector goes through a growth spurt in Sri Lanka, congestion becomes a topic of conversation.People begin to grouse that the companies are cheating the customers by giving them telephones but not the ability to make calls.Every time the telecom sector goes through a growth spurt in Sri Lanka, congestion becomes a […]

R&D or housemaids? On December 8, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will spend US$ 850 million on research and development in India over the next four years. A few days earlier, Intel, whose Chairman is also visiting the region (including Sri Lanka), announced plans to spend US$ 1 billion in R&D in India. Things are […]

Water is free in Sri Lanka. Anyone who says different will be pilloried.I say different. I say that we will pay in lives and devastation if we do not start charging the real costs of water.Water is free in Sri Lanka. Anyone who says different will be pilloried. I say different. I say that we […]

Ridding Year 1 school admissions of corruption and influence 1.0 Introduction Getting a child into Year 1 of school, government or private, has become a traumatic and unpleasant event.  Principals are being arrested for taking bribes, court cases are being launched, parents stand in line through the night, and children are being coached to lie […]

Policy analysis must begin from a realistic assessment of where we are and what we are. We are a small island nation in South Asia, home to the world’s largest concentration of poor people.We are about the size of greater Mumbai, one city in India, in population and we may be smaller than Mumbai as […]

Policy analysis must begin from a realistic assessment of where we are and what we are. We are a small island nation in South Asia, home to the world’s largest concentration of poor people.We are about the size of greater Mumbai, one city in India, in population and we may be smaller than Mumbai as […]

The sign below an exhibit at the Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo, Hawaii, claims that Hilo is ‘the tsunami capital of the world.‘ Dr George D. Curtis, the scientific advisor to the museum, covered that sign with his hand and said quietly, ‘now, we’ll have to change that.‘ That is just one of the things […]

The sign below an exhibit at the Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo, Hawaii, claims that Hilo is ‘the tsunami capital of the world.‘ Dr George D. Curtis, the scientific advisor to the museum, covered that sign with his hand and said quietly, ‘now, we’ll have to change that.‘ That is just one of the things […]