To date, Sri Lanka National Tourist Drivers Association, the largest tourist drivers association with a membership base over 4,000 members has conducted 25 training programmes to upgrade the skills of tourist drivers.

The need to prevent unsafe and illegal abortions and unwanted pregnancies, the empowerment of youth and women in particular have become hot topics that have been debated and discussed on numerous platforms to date. The Family Planning Association o

Language is indeed one of most essential and powerful communication devices for all mankind. Different countries and different nations have different languages.    In Sri Lanka, the Sinhala language has been the mother tongue of the Sinhala

Over two days, we tried to traverse the length and breadth of Kurunegala. We could not, even after covering more than 600 kilometres. Then again, it is impossible to ascertain with just one trip, and a randomly organised trip at that, the full worth

Sri Lanka claims of having a proud heritage in terms of arts and crafts. This unique culture has helped Sri Lanka earn recognition in the world. Making of crafts has been an ancient art form and is applied to all most all spheres in the daily lives o

Nilan Maligaspe’s Sinha Ballet is a new interpretation of a familiar legend and should not be seen as a re-working of Ediriweera Sarchchandra’s Sinhabahu.

Muharram is the first Arabic month in the Islamic calendar. The month of Muharram will fall on September 11 if moon is sighted.

Bopitiye Dhammissara Nayaka Thera turned 72 on September 7. Bopitiye Dhammashesara Thera, shines among the scholarly Buddhist monks in the country at present.  

Death is certain. We come with nothing into this world and will go with nothing, but our impact on those we encountered will last a lifetime.    Our friend, our teammate and our workmate Sampath Agalawatte passed away on August 29. His fune

These few words are penned in loving memory of our beloved parents Soma and Brenda on their 100th birth anniversary. You are fondly remembered by children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.   

Rani Moraes (4th September 1931 – 7th April 2018)  

The Catholic Church celebrates with great honour the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the 8th of September every year. In many churches, this feast culminates with the cutting of a “Birthday Cake” which is shared by all. Roman Catho

The American Hierarchy has been caught with its pants down. Like the proverbial cat that has defecated on a rock, they are unable to cover up their caca  (shit) ----to use the very word Pope Francis....

Under the pretext of providing Ayurveda Panchakarma or the five-fold treatment, a new concept is now developing in the society in which the age-old traditional Ayurveda treatment is abhorred and the so called spas are mushrooming all over the country

Choral activity in Sri Lanka has risen to an unprecedented level during the past number of years, following a growing interest in the field with the student community in Sri Lanka being largely responsible for the recognition that choirs and choral e

The history and spiritual heritage of the Sisters of the Divine Saviour is closely linked to that of the Society of the Divine Saviour Founded by Venerable Fr. Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan (John Baptist Jordan) in 1888...

Bringing Sri Lanka to the limelight and making her proud, Senior Registrar in Gastrointestinal Surgery attached to the Teaching Hospital, Kandy Dr. Nadeesha Jeevan Nawarathna is yet another brilliant mind that has done a tremendous service to the n

In recent times there have been a number of articles about the death penalty. The majority of writers have expressed their total opposition to this form of punishment. However all of these people have completely missed their focus.  

The Department of National Archives will hold a seminar “Managing Municipal Archives” on Sept 6-7, 2018. It will be inaugurated on Sept. 6 at 9 a.m. by the Minister of Higher Education and Cultural Affairs Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse. 

Imagine forty scooters racing up the hairpin bends of Kalawana and villagers staring in varying stages of wonder at this unusual multi-coloured motoring phenomenon. They’d been at it since the early hours of Saturday, gathering for the Ceylon

This article is the second of those preparing the ground for a review of the new data on the last phase of Eelam War IV served up by access to the despatches of the British Defence Attache Lt. Col. Gash (the first being an analysis of Prabhakaran&r

It is reported that India has invited a multi-party parliamentary delegation from Sri Lanka for a familiarization tour and also to discuss mutual matters. This step taken by the Indian Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be regard

In hindsight, I was wrong to review Prageeth Ratnayake’s ‘Adareyi Mang’ the way I did. Because the film had a story that I’ve seen countless times before and because I knew how that story would end, I focused instead on the

According to the WHO (2014), Non-communicable Disease country profiles, most percentage of mortality by cause is in Sri Lanka, in 2014 was cardiovascular disease (40%). Lack of exercise or any physical activity is responsible for 30% mortality in m

The Dudley Senanayake foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung are pleased to announce that the Dudley Senanayake memorial oration this year will be held on September 14, 2018 at 5.15 pm in the BCIS Hall at the BMICH. The orator will be Gordon

Mervyn de Silva wrote a brief bio-data on the smaller-sized of the Lanka Guardian notepaper/ letterheads in the last years of his life. It was rearranged into a narrative and appeared on the back cover of ‘Crisis Commentaries: Selected Politi

Hiniduma Sunil Senevi, Senior Lecturer in Sinhala, University of Sabaragamuwa, spoke at a book launch. He didn’t deal with the text but as always he educated his audience.  

The residents of a house, where they had lived for seventeen years, had been ejected on August 29 (Wednesday) due to a court order. The chief occupant of this residence is Wa

With both natural and man-made disasters becoming frequent, the need for a professional forum of disaster risk management professionals has been long felt in Sri Lanka. With the vision of providin

A jailer is held in high esteem in our society as a responsible Government officer in charge of prisoners. However, he or she has to depend on the pension entitled to him/her after retirement. This is a sad story of a jailer who had been deprived of