At Lakshapana Estate’s Mulgama Lower Division in Maskeliya, families who hoped for secure homes say they have inherited fear instead. Residents report cracks spreading through houses built in 2004, inadequate drinking water
“Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.” ― Joe Baca On 18
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The United Nations has recognized 7th December of each year as “International Civil Aviation Day” and this year, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) – which is the specialized United Nations agency on
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today ~ Abraham Lincoln We are barely a month away from 2023 and the world has moved in unprecedented ways in 2022,
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“You know the old Russian proverb. What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine.” ― Daniel Silva, The Cellist In a recent interview on BBC’s HARDtalk, the interviewee was Judge Mark L. Wolf
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“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator” ~ Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations The Secretary-General made the above statement at his
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision…Helen Keller Ever since the dawn of this century, we have had unprecedented upheavals in geo-politics, public health, warfare, rapid
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The International Day of the Air Traffic Controller is celebrated on October 20th each year. This day marks the anniversary of IFATCA (International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations), which was founded
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“ By cruel hands the sapling drops, in dust dishonour’d laid; so fell the pride of all my hopes, my age’s future shade”. ~ Robert Burns Denis Nowell Pritt, a British barrister,
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Leaders are inevitably hemmed in by constraints. They operate in scarcity, for every society faces limits to its capabilities and reach, dictated by demography and economy. ~ Henry Kissinger, Leadership: Six Studies in
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We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, Jr. A grave concern confronting the civil aviation community is that, with the proliferation of military activity will inevitably
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Owning a drone does not a pilot make ~ Alex Morritt Once every three years (unless otherwise convened) the international aviation community emerges in all its collectivity to gather at the Assembly
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“The metaverse is best understood as the shift of computing and interaction from a device in your pocket into a virtual simulation.” ~ Matthew Ball The word “metaverse” has been with us
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The Monarchy was obligated to rule under the consent of Parliament, with the recognition that the people had individual rights. Therefore, it would not be incorrect to say that in the British
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We are agricultural societies that have industrialized within one or two generations…If you look at Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore – there’s been one remarkable phenomenon – the rise of religion…there
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. ~ Frederick Douglass The Sri Lanka Guardian was founded as an online web portal in August 2007 “by a group of concerned Sri
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