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Saturday, September 4th, 2021
Dr SARATH obeysekera I have lost a closet friend this week Dr Ibrahim Yusuf Born in Rideegama and studied had primary education I Rideegama Temple and a contemporary of Asgiriya Chief Buddhist prelate . He was very much conversant with Buddhism though he payed everyday and recited Quaran several times a day.Amazingly he could recite […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Cricket players who may have been above board should not get involved in politics Celebrated captain who lifted the World Cup should have stayed as a senior cricketer like Sanga or Mahela and serve the nation .Trying to emulate Imran Khan has not shown much results .Previous government have him a lucrative […]
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Saturday, August 1st, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I was watching the tv on today and on another day and saw hundreds of port workers planning to stage a strike against a decision of corrupt politicians to sell part of the port. They were mercilessly threatening the nation which had been battered by Corona. SAGT sale was also marred with […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera There was a news item about the role of Viyathmaga started under the patronage of the President Few members expected to get appointed to posts of heads of corporations after presidential Election. No one was appointed and the military top brass with the responsibility to uphold law and order were appointed to many […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera There are certain opinions among the people today that intellectuals should go to parliament and run the country. The Collective recently formed and held the first inaugural meeting with the participation of the minister of industries has a different opinion. Interlevuals should allow the politicians to go to parliament and support constitution […]
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Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera Photos illustrated here show Galle Harbour with several yachts owned by foreign sailing tourists who are in Sri Lanka during this lull tourist period Next to the yacht park in the Harbour Is the building which is a yacht repair facility established in 2014 This project was abandoned in 2015 by the […]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
Dr. Sarath OBEYSEKERA Secretary-General’s letter Dear Colleagues, Following the virtual town hall meeting held on Thursday, 4 June 2020, in New York, I wish to share with you a rough transcript of what I said to the colleagues in New York. We gathered amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to focus on another urgent challenge – the […]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2020
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera We read politicians including paradesheeya sabha members and monks involved in robberies , but this is the first time we hear about a Doctor who is almost a consultant involved in a robbery. There is nothing here to be surprised because most of the doctors who become consultants eventually start robbing poor […]
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Sunday, June 7th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera White-skinned invaders came to Africa and Asia and made colonies settle down. Most of them not only scraped the national wealth and sent it to their counties some of them settled down in these countries and started living with local women leading to children becoming lighter in skin colour. In South Africa and […]
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Friday, May 29th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I heard that government intends to import cows to Sri Lanka I decided to republish my own article published Last year
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Friday, May 29th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I listen to President’s speech where he righty vouched to drastic take action to severe connections with any International agencies if these agencies act against our war heroes We also have to admit that the Sri Lankan’s working and remitting foreign funds which we desperately need are also performing yeoman service to […]
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Dr sarath obeysekera During this difficult period, we keep watching how vegetables were wasted and rotten fish getting disposed Fruits rotting away due to difficulties in transportation We should now think carefully about preserving food for a rainy day In Russia, people keep preserving cabbage cucumber, carrot and beetroot, etc and bottle them for consumption […]
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Dr. sarath obeysekera We have had Easter attack last year and now the Corona pandemic which has caused a heavy burden ion people But most of the professionals in technical, financial and management fields are sitting at home and spend quite a life without infusing revolutionary ideas which are practical and workable to […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Elevated highway: Govt. accepts unsolicited proposal from Chinese company By Namini Wijedasa The Government has accepted an unsolicited proposal from China Harbour Engineering Company (Ltd) for the elevated expressway from Athurugiriya to New Kelani Bridge via Rajagiriya — a project for which bid documents had already been finalised to call an open […]
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When reading The the attached communication issued by the President’s office I wonder why they cannot use the other two ports as well We proposed to develop Trinco as a location for oil rig lay-up facilities and requested the government to restructure quarantine procedure to accommodate the crew changes of rigs […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2020
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera රටේ ආර්ථිකය බේරා ගන්න කොරියානුවන් තම කණ කර ආභරණ එරට භාණ්ඩාගාරයට දුන්නා.. අපද එසේ විය යුතුයි.. May 18, 2020 at 3:22 am | lanka C news කොරියාවේ වැටුණු ආර්ථිකය ගොඩගැනීම සඳහා කොරියානුවන් තම කණකර එරට භාණ්ඩාගාරයට ලබාදුන් බව ඇමති සී.බී. රත්නායක මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. කිසිවකුට අත නොපා අපි නැගිටිමු යන අධිෂ්ඨානයෙන් මෙම […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2020
Dr sarath obeysekera Export Development Board is quite active in trying to promote various export-oriented Industries to enhance foreign currency earnings for the country One of the proposals they are promoting is the development of nautical tourism which involves boat and leisure craft building and various marinas around the island One of the pioneers in […]
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Sunday, May 10th, 2020
Dr sarath obeysekera One of my friend living in the USA, doing quite well who studied in Russia and migrated send me following; The Communist regime gave us an education and some of us served in our the country for few years and some left the country for greener pastures Sine left the country some […]
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Friday, May 8th, 2020
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර 1948 දී බ්රිතාන්ය පාලනයෙන් නිදහස දිනා ගත්තායයි පම්පෝරි ගහන සහ එසේම එදා සිට මෙ දක්වා මේ රට පාලනය කලායයි කියන කලු සුද්දන් විසින්, මේ රට පූර්ණ නිදහස් රාජ්යක් වීම සන්දහා වසර 72 තුල අනිවාර්යෙන්ම ඉටුකළයුතුව තිබුණු එහෙත් සාපරාදි අන්දමින් එසේ කිරීම පැහැරහැරිය පහත සදහන් අවස්යතා දැන්වත් සම්පූර්ණ කිරීම කිරීම වහාම කලයුතුය 1 […]
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Thursday, May 7th, 2020
Dr sarath obeysekera When I read the article below I thought that the theories forwarded by the Chamber of commerce using jargon that talks about U development and V development is quite confusing. U theory or V theory can only be implemented only if the people representing V need to change their mindset from welfare […]
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera This is the chance for local manufacturers to grab Let us capitulate is on this and produce items locally During my time in Russia, I was having industrial training during the first year in a Factory in Moscow called Borets where large compressors were built with local materials. Body and parts were […]
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
Dr. SARATH OBEYSEKERA I read the editorial of Divaina today during the wee hours and decided to pen my views. Part of the editorial which drew my attention is the proposal to repair the oil tanks in Trinco and put to service. I myself mooted a similar idea to be taken up with the Task […]
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2020
Dr. Sarath Oveysekera We are fighting Corona, which is a virus supposedly originated from animals. We are also supposed to be descendants of monkeys, and we are ruining the environment and forests in the name of development. Animals may be trying to eradicate their harmful descendants of their own by introducing these dreadful viruses. Elephants […]
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Friday, May 1st, 2020
Dr sarath obeysekera People stop eating McDonald’s, Kentucky, Pizza, Stirfry, P&S short eats, and yet people are surviving, because our bodies get adapted to such conditions .where people may not get what they really like to have. Even to bane a nice Malu Pan we cannot buy yeast There will be a shortage of coconuts […]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Failures of government agencies including local short-sighted politicians also local authorities had led to uncontrolled human settlements in the form of Ghettos and slums and Watta” within state-owned lands, road reservations, canal reservations, railway reservations. After 1977 since the change regime from a quasi socialistic government to a more open economy, the […]
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Sunday, April 26th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera In the UK, people from BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) backgrounds are disproportionately affected by Coronavirus. For instance, the first 10 doctors named as having died from Covid-19 in the UK were all from BAME communities. Nobody can give a good enough reason for this yet and the UK government has already launched an investigation/inquiry to […]
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Saturday, April 25th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera EDB of Sri Lanka should offer Trinco Harbour facility to park oil rigs and oil tankers to generate foreign income A request to investigate thas been sent to SLPA and to the Task Force IMPACT OF COVID-19 Due to the adverse effect of Covid 19 virus to the economy of the countries in Asia. Africa and […]
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Friday, April 24th, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard Apr 23 (FT) Over 200 enterprises in the Free Trade Zones, employing over 30,000 workers, are currently in operation and contributing to economic development, despite partial shutdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, Govt revealed. Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said […]
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
Dr. Sarath OBEYSEKERA April 21, 2020, 11:35 pm When I read the above article I recollected experience about an incident 1972 in Russia I was sent to an industrial site in a City called Orenburg in Russia with about 40 male and female students who were doing a major degree with me in Drilling and […]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
Dr.Sarath Obeysekera The current and future prosperity of Sri Lanka is intrinsically linked to its marine and coastal assets, with fisheries and tourism being the two main pillars of its economy, gross domestic product (GDP) and source of employment Implementation of the Blue Economy, hitherto to be named as” Fisheries and Ocean Development Movement […]
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