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The Colombo Gospel Tabernacle (TAB) in Wellawatte had a Christmas project on the 10th of December at the Church hall. They had organised breakfast for the 141 route bus ...
On October 1st 2016, a protest was held by the fishermen, in 8 fishing villages from Kammalthota to Uswetakeiyawa. This protest was organized by the People's Movement against the Port City. Several ...
The Madal Fisherman
P. Anthonis Nonis, a retired fisherman of the area brings to our attention the fact that as the population has increased there are more fisherman and more boats. This has a ...
Nicholas Anthony Fernando, a boat builder from Negombo having only studied up to grade eight says that this has been his job since then.
He has done both fishing and boat building meaning he has ...
P. Anthonis Nonis, an 82 year old retired fisherman, on the beaches nearKapungoda where the Nanguran anchoring harbour is situated, stated that after they built this harbour, there has been a lot of ...
Is it time to stop thinking north and south? For too long now we have been working this equation; either to create problems or work out solutions. In a natural phenomenon (scientifically speaking) ...
There are three stories that I’d like to talk about in this column, which might seem unconnected, but I see a connection and hope my explanation of it will hold water.I read a report on Huffington ...
A couple of weeks ago I was at a supermarket and was accosted by a particularly aggressive marketing person (one uses the word person when one refers to a woman just to be politically correct) who ...
A couple of weeks ago, I had a problem recognising someone I knew quite well. I’ve known this lady over some years but suddenly when I ran into her in unfamiliar surroundings it all went ...
I RECENTLY had the opportunity to take a glimpse at the lives of two young women, both around the same age (between 27-29 years of age). One was from an underprivileged background and the other from ...
2024 (not 2012) will be the end of mankind... What I really mean is that it may well spell the end of male dominance. The thought might be scary for men but a Newsweek article on the net titled ...
Yesterday’s special report in the Daily FT on the oil issue in Sri Lanka had detailed stories on how oil prices rising was going to be a threat to the country’s economic recovery. The ...
