A special note is when these schools that abuse their private status but have staff salaries from the state. Two such institutions are St. John’s College and the Nuffield School. These really are ...

Sri Lanka has little discrimination when it comes to allowing foreign nationals in, be it as tourists or investors. Since there’s no screening of any kind, the country is Open Sesame for any criminal, ...

Sri Lanka has been under the influence of neoliberal, open economic policies and authoritarian political tendencies over several decades, followed by political populism in the recent past. As is well ...

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The lead pair of Santa’s Reindeer, will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and ...

The corporate world has long been shaped by principles like productivity, efficiency, profitability, and growth. Since World War II, these concepts, alongside the demand-supply equation, have defined ...

The manner in which the government is seeking to project the two visits that the president is to make is to call them economic investment-related visits. Indeed, both countries hold keys to Sri ...

Lee Kuan Yew’s Crusade against Corruption LKY adopted uncompromising standards and a principled approach to governance. Hallmarks of his policies comprised inter alia: providing top-flight public ...

The election of Donald Trump as US President for yet another term has sent many world leaders scurrying for cover. Especially in the West. But even China is concerned. In the US itself, the ...

A government spokesperson was reported to have stated that the government will introduce a new Constitution in three years. Why three years? This reminds one of the futile and expensive exercise ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ~ Antonio Gramsci President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his Cabinet of Ministers seem to have settled in ...

Delivering his inaugural policy statement to parliament, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dealt mostly with the economy and in particular the IMF agreement. The problem he faces is that the former ...