Source:Island Sri Lankan Catholics have been requested to attend Sunday church service countrywide on March 7, dressed in black as a sign protest against the failure to apprehend the real culprits of the Easter Sunday carnage by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry. Rev. Fr. Victor Jayamanne, Parish Priest of Dalugama ...

Source:Island Sri Lanka eliminated a dreaded terrorist group, with intricate global links, but receives little credit for it. Unlike elsewhere in the world, Sri Lanka has succeeded in resettling 300,000 IDPs (Internal Displaced Persons). There are no starving children for the NGOs to feed but this gets ignored. Sri Lanka ...

Dear Thomians, Royal Thomian Sydney cricket matches are scheduled for the weekend after the Easter holidays and more details will follow.    We have scheduled practice sessions in preparation for the games. We invite all who wants to play and anyone who wants a workout to come for the following: Sessions: ...

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Pearl Fishing Recording my recollections and reflections about what life would have been like in Mannar, centuries ago, I digressed. My attention was drawn to perhaps the most important and interesting aspect of life in Mannar and the north-central coastline for thousands of years (I learnt that later!). It is ...

  It is with deep sorrow and a heavy heart that I share with you the extremely sad news that my dear friend Mr. Neil Fernando (25thMay 1937 – 9th January 2021) passed away while on a visit to the United Kingdom. Neil was a close friend of my younger brother, ...

    The present-day sky is crowded. Airways crisscross above continents and oceans and are  severely congested with all kinds of aeroplanes carrying passengers and cargo. Then someone crashes, people die, and we say “What a shame!” The manufacturers start defending their aeroplane, the insurance companies look for loopholes to ...

DIAZ – THOMAS (TONY) BERNADINE, husband of the late Jeanne (nee Bastiansz), father of Johann and Jeff, in England, on January 19, 2021, aged 84 years. (Contributed) JANSEN – DR RONALD R. G (RONNY), husband of late Olga, father of Diedre, Deryck, Sonia and Suzette, father-in-law of late David Theogarajah ...

The Kalutara Bodhi Source:Sundayobserver The city of Kalutara unlike other urbanised cities is redolent of the ancient Buddhist Sinhala culture. It is because of the most sacred Kalutara Bodhi encircled with the gold fence seemingly holding the sky with its massive branches and standing majestically in the upper terrace of ...