BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Many expressed displease about education reforms in Sri Lanka and it could assume that academics appointed to perform the role of reforming education failed to do the task as required by the country, and the development of policies for education reforms have stagnated because the appointed experts are lacking the understanding of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It is recorded that various agricultural items produces and products were exported by Sri Lanka in history and many of the agricultural items were rice and cinnamon, and other items, I never heard or read Sri Lanka had exported cannabis for making money or to increase export revenue. The report of Dudley […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When Sri Lanka ended the ethnic war in fourteen years ago, many analysts believed that the decline in military expenses would improve the economic prospectus of the country. Tourism business and merchandise exports would be positively supported to an increase in external value of the Sri Lanka rupee, but such an outcome […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS People of Sri Lanka could express views on the credit programs provided to the country if anyone investigates the condition of credit facilities, it is possible to understand the condition of credit facilities.  Although the International Monetary Fund provides credit facilities to member countries, it is not a social service organisation, as […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS News reported president Wickremasinghe wants to implement education reforms, however, which area of education should be reformed has not clearly expressed. Reforming the education is a policy action in any country and Sri Lanka would not be extraordinary compared to other countries. In many countries, education reforms will be concerned about the […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Humans have different natures, and crass nature shows insulting others for personal advantages or any other reasons. People don’t understand this nature with animals or not, because people don’t clearly understand the communication of animals.  Insulting or making derogatory remarks against a religion or a religious leader is a crass nature of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The International Monetary Fund was established after the Briton-Wood Agreement as a solution for international financial crisis, which was encouraged by the ad hoc work of certain European countries. These countries attempted to gain trade advantages by ad hoc changes in currency values that was meant devaluation of currency to attract demand […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The International Financial System has been subjected to tremendous changes during the 20th century, and new currencies such as Euro emerged from time to time, with the support of powerful countries, and after 1930s the system was subjected to ad-hoc changes because some countries attempted to gain trade advantages changing the international […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Before the European invasion, the economic policy of Sri Lanka was believed to be maintaining a production economy to endure people and make savings for the future. The definition of production is a dynamic aspect that product creation related to agriculture, industry, construction and services. It is an assumption based on historical […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Insulting to others is an explicit nature of Sri Lankans irrespective of ethnic groups such as Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim. In other ethnic groups in the world there may have such a negative cultural feature in relation to human behaviour, comparatively Sri Lankans gets a priority for this bad feature and I […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It is reported that the Indian population will be surpassed a high volume than China in mid-year of 2023, this estimation has done based on the estimation of the UN, which is a broader and more realistic estimation considering people currently living in India and China, however, Indian and Chinese population may […]

  BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS       Many countries engage in animal exports for various purposes. Many Middle East countries import animal for various purposes such as getting meat, wools and skins and export of animal are major businesses and export of monkeys has no specific problems to Sri Lanka. It would be a business like in […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS  Citizenship by descent is considered the clear cut-right of a person and it is a universal human right. Any person born to this world he/ she /bisexual has right to live in the world and nobody can deny this right. This is not written in the list of human rights in United […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Historical evidence found that Sri Lanka was a separate country since the era of homo sapiens, they migrated from one country to another or one place to other. There was no evidence that anyone attempted to restrict the migration from one country to another and keep people who were living in the […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The senior Mission Chief of the International Monetary Fund has stressed that Sri Lanka needs to achieve inclusive growth and stability. The concept of inclusive situation is a vital aspect of Sri Lanka as the culture of the country has not promoted the concept of inclusive conditions for various concerns of development […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Before the European invasion, the economic policy of Sri Lanka was believed to be maintaining a production economy with a view to enduring of people and making savings for the future. The definition of production is a dynamic term that products and services creation related to agriculture, industry, construction and related services […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It seems that Sri Lanka used to apply an absurd way for judging the quality of education gained by students looking at irrelevant criteria based on which school kids attended to gain education. Knowledge is identical from whichever school it gained. All over the world accept that education is a quality factor […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The value of Sri Lanka rupee (Domestic and Foreign Values) is based on the success of policy action relating demand and supply of the rupee for various purposes. People need to understand that demand and supply values of Sri Lanka rupee would be based on several factors and the policy makers should […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS People who know the history of the Sri Lanka rupee would not panic about the surprising changes if the sudden change in foreign and domestic value of it because of the changes in the economy after the Covid-19 backwardness as many has been incurred to the economy. The Sri Lanka rupee value […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Many left politicians in Sri Lanka look at Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe as a capitalist agent but after Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mr Wickremasinghe became president giving hope for Sri Lankans to come out of economic backwardness. Mr Wickremasinghe is not a person like barking dog in stages expecting cheers and clapping from the […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS During the presidential election of 2019, many candidates and people publicly talked about education reforms.  Except for Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, other candidates and the public have not expressed clear views on this subject and are reluctant to talk about what kind of reforms are needed for Sri Lanka. Education is a broader […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe, the president of Sri Lanka, is a traceable person with a preeminent heritage in Sri Lanka his patrimony is traceable to king Parakramabahu six and he has rich knowledge, skills and experience in policy development and implementation. The major weakness in Sri Lanka since independence was the lack of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Why a constitution needs a country may be a complex and broad question, but it involves many points to consider. The answer to this question would be analytical that should cogitate various points relating to modern democratic aspects which concern with rights and responsibilities of citizens. It invites views and discusses many […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS There are many issues, arguments and controversies relating to history and the origin of various races in the world. How did a race generate is a complex question that could not be exactly traced. Nobody can clearly state that a particular race began in that day at that time. Sinhala race begun […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS President, Ranil Wickremasinghe recently expressed that the proposed 13th amendment to the constitution should be fully implemented, and the purpose of the amendment would be a supportive action to the reconciliation process. The speech of the president, in fact, was to mislead people during independent celebration time or genuinely implement the constitutional […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Macroeconomic issues strongly associate with living condition of ordinary people in Sri Lanka. Population, unemployment, economic growth, budget deficit, terms of trade, trade balance, investment such as many others could be given as examples and the pathetic situation in the country is macroeconomic issues and the influence of them to ordinary people […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Economic backwardness in Sri Lanka had been a part of life of Sri Lankans since the era of homo sapiens and rulers in the country from time to time have been able to introduce new policies or to reform the existing policies with a view to generating productivity. In Britain there was […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The complicated picture of university education in Sri Lanka sends a message that University Education Reforms are required to make radical changes in higher education and is a vital part of the higher education system in Sri Lanka since 1960s and no attempt of reforms have been successful as the misunderstanding of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka ascends many issues and the process of peacebuilding has been a giant process since before 1983 that required considering different influential factors related to the nature of ethnic and religious beliefs of people. When Sri Lanka faced the problem of loss of peace among ethnic communities there was […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The information on the debt restructuring of Sri Lanka shows that it has become a serious controversy among many people, despite this situation ordinary people in the country have no idea about the controversy. Some information publishes in the media and much of them have limited to policymakers. As the process of […]