“Parliament is not categorised in the gazette as a public space” – Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi in Parliament. The country needs people to work and earn money, for themselves, for the government, and for the nation. But people use this as an excuse to gather around, shop, and attend weddings and religious events, and thus …
Last Sunday, hundreds of thousands of little children were put at risk by forcing them to sit for the Grade Five Scholarship Exam, during the middle of the worst outbreak in Sri Lanka of the deadliest pandemic to challenge mankind in more than a century. A few days before that, a male teacher was arrested …
Anyone who drives in Colombo for even a few minutes runs the very real possibility of hitting or getting hit by something – a motorcycle, a tuk tuk, a person, a bus, another car or van, or even a tree; or get stuck in traffic that turns a 20-minute drive into a 90-minute nightmare. That’s …
There are 92 railway stations throughout the Greater Colombo region, with hundreds of miles of rail tracks. This system can easily be developed to cater to the transportation needs of most areas, of not just Colombo but the entire Greater Colombo region. The result will be the swift reduction of road traffic, the elimination of …