By Jekhan Aruliah “Charity begins at home”. For the Northern Province based Sivan Arul Illam charity began by creating a children’s home. The home was …
By Mangala Samaraweera: Sri Lanka today is facing an unprecedented political, economic and social crisis; as a nation we are gazing into the abyss at the edge …
By Prince of Kandy I am not saying it is a life and death matter when you print money. During my period it isn’t that we didn’t have excess printing but …
By Ravindra Kariyawasam The lockdowns imposed on several countries across the world owing to COVID- 19 had one positive result; the environment quality …
By Jekhan Aruliah Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of the Alibaba platform described as “the leading platform for global wholesale trade”, gave some …
By PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Sri Lanka: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the engineering and construction industry is unprecedented. Based on our …
By Chula Hettiarachchi: The unprecedented global climate of today has taken a heavy toll on life. At no point in time, did we anticipate that a single health …
By Jekhan Aruliah During the 2020 COVID-19 “Corona” Virus pandemic we really loved our health workers. We all loved them because COVID-19 hit everyone. Not …
By Shamika Ramanayake: National debt and fiscal stability are two stretch-words often reverberating over during these pandemic/crisis times. As governments all …
Priyanka Jayawardena Although, Sri Lanka performs well in most health indicators, child nutrition remains a major issue. According to the Demographic and …
By Mangala Samaraweera: The worst economic crisis since Independence is upon us. For some decades now the grim clouds of debt, waste and corruption have been …
By Jekhan Aruliah Tinned fish to tin houses: in the weeks of the 2020 Corona curfews we frequently saw on television and on Facebook fish in metal tins donated …
By Shane Herath There’s an unprecedented level of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus pandemic and the impact it has on the industries that …
By Gayan Gunewardana, Bsc/MBA/CIMA/CGMA/AIB/FRM (Banking consultant & independent researcher – Middle East) The global “war” on COVID-19 pandemic and …
Nisha Arunatilake On Easter Sunday last year, Sri Lanka was shocked by a series of bomb attacks. The security concerns that followed kept people home and …
Dr. Nirmal De Silva It is evident that the Covid-19 pandemic would create a significant economic impact globally. Whilst it is rather premature to predict the …
By Gayan Gunewardana: The 2019 novel- Coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak, which originated in China has infected nearly 700,000 people globally till date. The …
By Aneetha Warusavitarana On the 12th of March the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the new coronavirus, COVID-19 to be a pandemic. With cases in Sri …
I first heard of the BBK Partnership Sri Lanka in 2015. I first spoke with its co-founder Anandan Arnold in 2018, and finally met him in March 2020 at a …
By Jekhan Aruliah Does Sri Lanka need more university graduates? Sri Lanka has tens of thousands of unemployed graduates. Every now and then the government …