Facilitating their need to feed
Allowing mothers to breathe a sigh of relief, the Health Ministry’s Family Health Bureau (FHB) said that Covid-19 infected mothers and vaccinated mothers can breastfeed their children through safe met Read More » Editorial: Bridging the President-public gap
So far, it was through middlemen – i.e. ministers, parliamentarians, and high-ranking officials of public institutions – that the public learnt about what the Government’s plans and positions about ma Read More »
Editorial: By the people, for the children
Any nation can achieve much greater progress when its citizens realise that their powers and responsibilities extend beyond just exercising their franchise to elect the leaders they prefer, and someti Read More » Editorial: Not out of the woods
On Saturday (23), Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 death toll exceeded 4,000 deaths – a milestone the country did not expect to surpass in the initial era of the pandemic, when Sri Lankans were extremely concerne Read More » Pandemic-driven poverty
With economic activity in the country returning to some semblance of normalcy following the debilitating third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, an ominous reminder that Sri Lanka is far from being safe Read More » The PTA eyewash
The interim report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) for the “Appraisal of the Findings of Previous Commissions and Committees on Human Rights and the Way Forward”, which also looked in Read More » Second dose, second chance
Half a million Sri Lankans can now breathe a sigh of relief. After discussions with several parties and months of waiting, it was announced last week that Sri Lanka is set to receive more Oxford Astra Read More »