Opinion: Ways for Sri Lanka to fix its healthcare
By Deepika Attygalle Today on World Health Day, we can say with confidence that Sri Lanka’s healthcare system has delivered on many of its promises. This …
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Ambitions are affordable for Asia & the Pacific: Executive Secretary of UN ESCAP
Op-ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Three years of implementation of the transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific shows …
Opinion: The truth about Geneva Human Rights Council Resolution
By Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera During the past few weeks, I have been watching the many headlines, debates, misinformation, misrepresentation of facts …
Small Northern Businesses Struggle for Funding
By Jekhan Aruliah There is an old joke: "The fastest way to become a millionaire is to be a billionaire and buy an airline". The airline will lose money so …
Opinion: As Racial and Religious Intolerance Raises Its Ugly Head
By Sanjeewa Fernando As the United Nations gear up to celebrate the International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, or Anti-racism day, as it is …
Opinion: Policing the Police – challenge for the newly facelifted Police Commission
By Sanjeewa Fernando Some say that the Police has gone to the dogs. Without being so harsh, yet being realistic, we would euphemistically admit that some dogs …
Jaffna’s Emerging Women Entrepreneurs
By Jekhan Aruliah Jaruza Jayachandran states with no embarrassment that she didn’t do well at school. When she used to go for parent-teacher meetings at one …
Managing fiscal deficits can increase investments in health & education in Sri Lanka
FEATURE: Managing fiscal deficits can increase investments in health and education in Sri Lanka What happens when a population pyramid no longer resembles a …
From Toronto to Toddy, a Jaffna Entrepreneur’s Journey
By Jekhan Aruliah When it comes to investment in the North there is far more talk than there is action. A rare example of action is Suganthan Shanmuganathan. …
Opinion: Why it’s important that Facebook remain free
By Mark Zuckerberg Next month, Facebook turns 15. When I started Facebook, I wasn't trying to build a global company. Back then, I realized you could find …
Opinion: Sri Lanka’s Cussed Stock Exchange
By Dinesh Anthony Perera Sri Lanka’s only stock exchange in a bid to show activity recently obtained some good publicity. Due to a concerning lack of recent …
Opinion: Is GDP the ideal metric of the future?
By Taamara de Silva In an age of stark contradictions, a world where the exclusive one percent enjoy access to an abundance of wealth and resources but also a …
Opinion: “Banking is necessary; banks are not” – Bill Gates
By Taamara de Silva To those who say that Apple did not kill the music industry, being forced to buy the entire music album did, Amazon did not kill retailers, …
Birth, Death and Rebirth of Jaffna’s Moolai Cooperative Hospital
By Jekhan Aruliah In the North-West corner of the Jaffna Peninsula close to the causeway to Karainagar Island is the small village of Moolai. It is a patch of …
Opinion: My new year’s wish – a final rest to “ghosts” of years past!
By Chrishmal Warnasuriya G’day from down-under: Our customary few lines that usually accompany my New Year’s wish-list this time comes from the land of …
Jaffna to New York’s Wall Street and back to Jaffna
By Jekhan Aruliah Back in the day Raj Janan’s father was a successful industrialist in Jaffna, owning at various times an aluminium factory, a knitwear …
Opinion: Revolution 4.0 – An intriguing case of the man and machine
By Taamara de Silva “The changes are so profound that, from the perspective of human history, there has never been a time of greater promise or potential …
Dr. Ravi Perumalpillai, Oxford Surgeon who became a Jaffna Farmer
By Jekhan Aruliah I write this piece as my appreciation of a Diasporan who came back to Jaffna and made a difference, sowing economic and medical seeds in the …
Entrepreneurs in Jaffna? Take a look in Ammachi!
By Jekhan Aruliah Soon after I moved to Jaffna in 2015 I heard rumours of this fantastic food court run by war widows. Friends driving North from Colombo said …
Opinion: Sri Lankan rupee under pressure – How not to crack
By Economic Intelligence Unit of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce The Sri Lankan currency (LKR) has weakened against the US dollar in 2018 (9.4% as at 26 …