{"id":52297,"date":"2016-02-26T18:16:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T00:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52297"},"modified":"2016-02-26T04:17:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T11:17:27","slug":"dont-bring-fiji-problems-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/26\/dont-bring-fiji-problems-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t bring Fiji problems here"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Wimal S<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Apropos the letter by Dr Sarath Obeysekera in The Island of Feb. 24 calling for Indians to fill our workforce is pretty dangerous and shortsighted.<\/p>\n<p>He did not have to look further than at the Upcountry tea estates where the country was flooded with cheap Indian labour by the British with similar objectives.<\/p>\n<p>The repercussion of such steps by the Colonial Powers does not need further elaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Unwittingly, Dr Obeysekera himself, let the cat out of the bag in saying &#8221;Altair Tower built by Indians is full of Indians and managed by Indians and they are doing well&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Is that what he wants our entire country to be is a moot question.<\/p>\n<p>If the ETCA proposed by the PM is implemented, it will damage the future of the country severely.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt this is being imposed on him by the Indians taking their pound of flesh for the services rendered to get him to his high post.The problems faced by countries like Fiji are not to be repeated by our leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimal S Apropos the letter by Dr Sarath Obeysekera in The Island of Feb. 24 calling for Indians to fill our workforce is pretty dangerous and shortsighted. He did not have to look further than at the Upcountry tea estates where the country was flooded with cheap Indian labour by the British with similar objectives. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}