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BY GEORGE BRAINE This was early 1981, and the government was planning to start a state-run television service. Applicants were invited for an inaugural training course for producers, directors, researchers, and writers. I had applied, and was called for an interview. The interview was at the newly set up National Television Planning Centre, at Kirulapone. […]
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca More Music Shows … Having produced, annually, The Island Music Awards shows on three occasions, I did my largest show in Sri Lanka in 1992. It was The Island […]
Burkina Faso’s Government has expelled the top UN diplomat in the country who was a former UN official in Sri Lanka. Barbara Manzi, the United Nations’ resident and humanitarian coordinator in the West African nation, was declared persona non grata, the foreign affairs ministry said in a statement. Burkina Faso has been wracked by violence […]
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By Shamindra Ferdinando Narendra Fernando, Sergeant-at-Arms of the crisis-ridden Parliament, has declared that the largest number of students, in the post-independence era, visited the House on Thursday (Dec. 01). Director, Legislative Services, Janakantha Silva, who is also the Acting Director of Communication, quoted Fernando as having said that approximately 5,000 students, from 32 schools, rec...
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CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca Five-Star Hotels in Colombo In 1986, there were only five five-star internationally branded hotels in Sri Lanka (InterContinental, Oberoi, Taj, Ramada Renaissance and Le Meridien). A Hilton Interna...
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I am pleasantly surprised and marvel too most times I read the editorial in The Island. Why? Because they are so very apt on the most current issue in the land. The editor has the clever knack of hitting the nail right on the head and is fearless even when the nail represents a VVIP. […]
[…]The post Danushka’s Sex Scandal: Time For “Me Too Aragalaya” In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
Australian Government-funded Skills for Inclusive Growth Program (S4IG), managed by Palladium International Group entered into an MoU with Cinnamon Hotel Management Ltd (CHML) to achieve several strategic results in Colombo recently. S4IG is a programme by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in accordance with the terms of a subsidiary agreement signed on […]
“Templeton Freedom Award has been won by Advocata Institute Sri Lanka. The CEO is our Dhana. It is with great pride I send this message to you to celebrate our dear friend Dhananath’s leadership victory of Advocata. Horekale and St Sebastian’s College man has really shown class.” That was Elmo Jayawardena’s email to me since […]
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By N Sathiya Moorthy At a time when India, Sri Lanka and Maldives are fighting international drug menace jointly and severally, comes President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s budget that has proposed legalising cannabis cultivation. The idea is to help boost farm-produce (?) exports and forex reserves, which are at the lowest level since the economic crisis hit […]
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Master blaster Sanath Jayasuriya and the sultan of swing Wasim Akram have joined the Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2022 as brand ambassadors. It provides a huge boost to the third edition of the tournament which will be played from December 6 to December 23. One of the most destructive batsmen of all-time Sanath Jayasuriya scored […]
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By Saman Indrajith Budget 2023 has sought to deprive the farming community of their land rights by placing the Mahaweli lands under the purview of Divisional and District Secretaries, SLPP dissident MP Prof. Channa Jayasumana says. “This proposal will take away the farmers’ rights to land. Farmers of Mahaweli lands in 15 districts and their […]
One of the most revered figures in the world of cricket, Sir Vivian Richards has joined the Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2022 as a brand ambassador. It provides a huge boost to the third edition of the tournament which will be played from Tuesday, 6th December to Friday, 23rd December. Vivian Richards played like a […]
The Lanka Premier League set to begin from 6th December. One of the most revered figures in the world of cricket, Sir Vivian Richards has joined the Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2022 as a brand ambassador. It provides a huge boost to the third edition of the tournament which will...The post Sir Vivian Richards Joins Lanka Premier League as Brand Ambassador appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
By Uditha Devapriya In my essay on H. D. Premaratne, I pointed out that Premaratne and Vasantha Obeyesekere were responsible for much of the changes that swept through the Sinhala cinema in the 1970s. Basically, they helped shatter the distinction that had prevailed until then between an artistic and a commercial cinema. Both directors focused […]
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Union Assurance, Sri Lanka’s trailblazing Life Insurer, has incentivised customers with lifestyle rewards for the third consecutive year with ‘Lifestyle Bonus 2022.’ Fifty winners were selected from eligible customers who purchased a Life Insurance policy between 1st January and 31st March, 2022, in a raffle draw held in June 2022. The first-place winner, W. I. […]
USD 3.8 bn in six months Sri Lanka would be in a far more difficult situation if not for financial assistance provided by the government of India, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told ‘Hiru’ on Monday (17) night. Dissanayake compared the assistance provided to the tune of USD 3.8 bn, within 6 months, with USD […]
Violence cannot be justified, under any circumstances. Therefore, the practice of referring to the JVP bids to topple the governments of the late Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike (April 1971) and JRJ and Ranasinghe Premadasa (1987-1990) as southern insurrections should be stopped. The armed forces and police defeated the JVP and LTTE terrorism. Several other Tamil terrorist […]
Ninety seven per cent of the respondents in a survey of Sri Lanka’s PR industry carried out in October by the Asia-Pacific chapter of the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA), the world’s largest and influential PR body, state that the local PR industry has got competitive over the recent years, with pricing, industry connections […]
Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Uurumaya, MP Udaya Gammanpila, yesterday said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has given a post of Presidential Adviser on Climate Change to Eric Solheim who had been sacked by the UN for wasting funds. Addressing the media in Colombo, Gammanpila said that so-called peace envoy Solheim has re-emerged as the Presidential […]
The APAC chapter of the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA), the world’s largest and influential PR body, carried out a survey during October with the view of understanding and informing on the state of the PR industry in Sri Lanka. The survey was carried out among 33 leaders and senior executives from over local […]
At a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin is making it all too obvious that he will be depending on Hard Power or armed might to forge ahead with his plans in Ukraine, the conferring of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on a human rights campaigner of Belarus and on two organizations engaged in kindred […]