Month: December 2020

We’d like to be like Singapore. But Singapore achieved success due to the knowledge, competitiveness, and productivity of its workforce, as the tiny country lacks mineral resources and agriculture. What are we doing to equip our nation’s human resources to achieve this goal?Despite more than half a century of free education, there is a startling …

Making Sri Lankans employable: What schools really should be teaching Read More »

Sri Lanka’s health authorities are fearing that yet another massive Covid cluster will break out shortly following thousands of people flocking to one location in Kegalle to snap up a miracle syrup that was being distributed freely by a quack physician who claims it will cure the pandemic.The knee jerk reaction of authorities, instead of …

Use big data to battle Covid in Sri Lanka Read More »

The world’s 7.8 billion people need 15.6 billion doses of a double-dose vaccine. The world’s production capacity is only five billion doses per year. But 32 rich countries that have only 13% of the world’s population have already pre-ordered 10 billion doses.Duke University’s Global Health Information Centre estimates that poorer countries may have to wait …

A vaccine can’t immunise SL against an economic crisis Read More »