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1 week ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
When Bread and work were hard to get, In those early days of the seventies decade, Angry young men rose in violent revolt, Seeking better times at gun point, Marking the restless Isle’s modern entry, To decades-long barbaric bloodshed, But the Old Left at the helm, to be fair, Was not helpless and bereft of thought, For it came out with a Five Year Plan, That spelled out steps to economic revival, And though the Plan proved a damp squib, It was evidence that National Planning was alive, And...
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3 weeks ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
‘The late Mangala Samaraweera was a true democrat who staunchly opposed racism in all its forms. He was also against corruption. He was a unique person, an achiever, an artist, a creative person, well-read and practical-minded, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said. She believes that if Mangala Samaraweera (MS) lived, Sri Lanka would have been changed entirely for the better.
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3 weeks ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
As Sri Lanka marks the 26th anniversary of its dream-like triumph over terrorism, some of those who spearheaded the successful war effort remain categorised as war criminals without any hearings into such wild allegations before a PROPERLY CONSTITUTED COURT, while those in the West, who brazenly carry out genocides and other war crimes, go scot free.
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1 month ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
Many thousands in the annual grades race,Are brimming with the magical feel of success,And they very rightly earn warm congrats,But note, you who are on the pedestals of power,That 30,000 or more are being left far behind,In these no-holds-barred contests to be first,Since they have earned the label ‘All Fs’,And could fall for the drug-pusher’s lure,Since they may be on the threshold of despair…Take note, and fill their lives with meaning,Since they suffer for no fault of theirs.
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1 month ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
With his limbs ripped off in a blast,Mounting challenges await the Gaza boy,And though he will be winning good hearts,When he cries that Mum can’t be held now,The stony silence of the civilized world,In the face of his stepped-up mute suffering,Should be seen as another frontier of agony,And herein we have the conclusive evidence,That hearts are made numb by unending savagery.
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1 month ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
In a landmark move for Sri Lanka’s logistics landscape, EFL Project Logistics has completed a critical phase of deliveries for the Colombo West International Terminal (CWIT), a transformative infrastructure project poised to reshape the country’s role in global maritime trade. CWIT—a collaboration between Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd (51%), John Keells Holdings and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority—is set to be the island’s first fully automated deep-water terminal.
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2 months ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
By Lynn OckerszA learned judge across the Palk Strait,Had certainly got his basics in place,When he held for the primacy of Bread,And received wisdom freshly upheld,That it is to the eatery and not the library,That a starving human drags himself,Thus putting to rest at first blush,The Bread or Books first debate,But rush not to conclusions in this instance,For, while Bread satisfies the physical self,It’s Books that nourish the heart and mind,So, let not Books and Bread futilely contend.
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2 months ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
Survivors of the South-East Asian tragedy,Triggered by nature’s stern promptings,Somehow reining-in suffocating sorrow,Are leaving no unhinged stone unturned,To salvage the remains of those held dear,In fresh testimony of love’s staying power,But it speaks well for the untouched majority,That unstinted succor is pouring in,To render some solace to the hapless,Although no amount of fellow feeling,Could make up for the wrenching sorrow,Of parting from a priceless presence.
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2 months ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
You may think sloth comes very easy,To your kingly monitor of the shrinking marsh,As he lies basking smugly in the morn sun,But he is organized and alert all the while,As he awaits his prey with patience infinite,Free of malice, a professional of a kind,His cumbrous body not slowing his sprite….
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2 months ago | 
island.lk | Sahan Weerasooriya |Lynn Ockersz
By Lynn OckerszThe glowing, tranquil oceans of green,That deliver the legendary cup that cheers,Running to the distant, silent mountains,Are surely a sanctuary for the restive spirit,But there’s pained labour in every leaf,That until late was not bestowed the ballot,But which kept the Isle’s economy intact,And those of conscience are bound to hope,That the small people in the success story,Wouldn’t be ignored by those big folk,Helming the struggling land’s marketing frenzy.
