Archive for October 30th, 2022

Booker Prize, Chattel Slavery, Sugar, its Politics and Sri Lanka

Sunday, October 30th, 2022

By Sena Thoradeniya a pile of crooked nonsense” with the winner determined by who knows who, who’s sleeping with who, who’s selling drugs to who, who’s married to who, whose turn is”. That is how A.L. (Alison Louise) Kennedy, a Scottish writer and Booker Prize judge in 1996 described the Booker Prize in 2001. Preamble  […]

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’ICE’ usage among schoolgirls, young women rise steadily

Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Courtesy The Daily Mirror There is a new trend of increasing use of synthetic drugs known as ICE (methamphetamine crystals) among girls, National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (NDDCB) said. NDDCB Assistant Counsellor Lakmee Nilanka said many girls and young women are lured into using drug through beauty parlors. She revealed these while participating in an […]

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SriLankan Airlines sees future prospects amid privatisation talks

Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While privatisation of SriLankan is high on the agenda of the new government in the island nation, the airline’s CEO says there is a strong future for the country’s national carrier supporting the growth of the Sri Lankan economy in general and tourism in particular. We are open to the proposal […]

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