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Stock Broking firm Capital Alliance suggests that the 2.6 million tourist arrivals target isn’t a pipedream but achievable though it will be only by 2020, which is 4 years later than the Government and industry set timeline of 2016. “The Government projects 2.5m arrivals in 2016, but the industry will lack the rooms and trained ...
- Think tourism (Category: Business)
- ETA examined (Category: Business)
- September tourist arrivals up 27% (Category: Business)
- South Africa’s Sun City to invest $ 800 m in Sri Lanka tourism (Category: Business)
IRIN: Bumper paddy production in Sri Lanka’s former conflict areas has averted an expected national rice shortage, experts say. Twin floods in January and February inundated more than 200,000 hectares of paddy land in the eastern and central regions of the island nation, destroying more than 700,000 MT of the primary harvest estimated at 2.75 ...
- Northern paddy lands produce record harvest (Category: Business)
- Less guns mean more food (Category: Business)
- Bumper paddy harvest and the consumer (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s stake in the intl. agriculture debate (Category: Business)
By Uditha Jayasinghe Around one million 50-kilo bags of cement need to be imported urgently to offset the current shortage say industry experts warning that scarcity and increase in price would hit Sri Lanka’s Rs.250 billion Construction Sector hard. Ceylon Institute of Builders (CIOB) President Dr. Rohan Karunaratne told the Daily FT that if prices ...
- Cement prices up again (Category: Breaking News)
- Cracks in cement (Category: Business)
- Cement market gets ‘Lucky’! (Category: Business)
- Where is cement for development? - CAA rejects cement price hike plea (Category: Business)
The official handover of the Vision Centre in Kadawatha by the International Centre for Eye care Education (ICEE) to Lions Golden Jubilee Trust for Healthcare and Skills Development took place recently. The event commemorated ICEE’s successful involvement and collaboration with Lions since 2009. Since the Vision Centre’s establishment, it has successfully promoted eye care services ...
- Kadawatha Vision Centre handed over to Lions Golden Jubilee Trust (Category: Breaking News)
- ICEE opens Vision Centre in Kolonnawa (Category: Breaking News)
- Second ICEE Vision Centre opens in Dehiwela for Colombo District (Category: Breaking News)
- ICEE Vision Centre Celebrates two year milestone with Practical Eye Care Emphasis (Category: Breaking News)
By Amantha Perera VAVUNIYA,(IRIN): As thousands of students begin uninterrupted schooling after a lapse of years, education officials in Sri Lanka’s former northern conflict zone are facing a shortage of teachers. John Edward Solemn, assistant education director of Vavuniya South, an educational division, said the lack of teachers, especially in rural schools and in the ...
- Intel to support Ministry of Education’s ‘1,000 Schools Project’ (Category: Business)
- Intel celebrates five years of supporting education in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Holcomb Appoints Jenner As First Secretary Of Education (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Holcomb Appoints Jenner As First Secretary Of Education (Category: USA, Indiana)
United National Party Parliamentarian Kabir Hashim who once served as a mediator between the two fractions now says it is the responsibility of the three leaders to take the party cadre out of the mess they themselves created. Hashim asserts that leaders should be able to resolve the leadership crisis amongst themselves without pushing the ...
- Ranil Asks For Leadership For Another Year (Category: Breaking News)
- Karu Defends UNP’s No Ball (Category: Breaking News)
- For A Public Dialogue With UNP As “Twenty-Eleven” Rolls Out (Category: Breaking News)
- He Who Dares Wins (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s cement industry, trade, standard and import inspection schemeOrdinary Portland Cement (OPC), commonly known as cement, is once again dominates headlines of the Sri Lankan print and electronic media due to its preserved or real temporary shortage of supply in the domestic market. The media attributes the supply shortage to the variety of factors. ...
- Samaposha gets SLS certification (Category: Business)
- SLS certification endorses Keells Sausages’ premium quality assurance (Category: Business)
- Cant issue SLS to imported cement; artificially created shortage (Category: Breaking News)
- Kelani Armoured Cables obtains SLS 1186 certification (Category: Business)
A queue of a different type Last Sunday when the sun was shining hot and bright in the western sky, thousands of youth — almost all were boys — had assembled themselves with backpacks still hanging on their backs, along the wrought iron fence of a park in Colombo ready for an overnight stay there. ...
- Appreciating the exchange rate to create prosperity (Category: Business)
- Causes Of Economic Crisis In Sri Lanka & Lessons For A New Age (Category: Breaking News)
- Appreciating exchange rates: Not a boon always (Category: Business)
- The GDP Per Capita in the Central Bank Annual Report for 2011 (Category: Business)
CEMENT, a product slapped with maximum retail price, is in crisis. During the past few weeks cement has been the centre of much public spotlight and debate. Macho-type talk by Co-operatives and Internal Trade Minister Johnston Fernando and his lack of consultation with cement trade hasn’t helped the situation either. Let’s take stock of the ...
- Cement market gets ‘Lucky’! (Category: Business)
- 1 million bags of cement in need (Category: Business)
- Lanka Cement gets new Board (Category: Business)
- Price of a 50kg bag of cement to cost Rupees 2300/- from today (06) (Category: Breaking News)
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