The Rising Sun comes with bombs on Easter Sunday – By Capt Elmo Jayawardena I am no aviation historian, just an aeroplane driver who spent a long time in the sky. The Japanese bombing of Sri Lanka in 1942 is mainly information that passed from people to people as the years rolled. Some subtracted the truth and some others exaggerated the myths. I want to share with readers what little I found out and perhaps shed a little more light on events that took place a long time ago on an Easter Sunday morning. Squadron Leader Leonard Birchall arrived in Ceylon on the 3rd of April 1942. The flight was from Karachi to Koggala where an RAF base was operational. Birchall was from the 413 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force. They, at that time, had a joint operation with RAF to conduct reconnaissance flights over the southern coast ...
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Terrifying ordeal of crew on board rotting ship in the Colombo harbour- By Chaminda Silva Source:Island Five remaining crew members onboard deteriorating Indian flagged vessel the MV Sai Arambh in Colombo Harbour are in severe distress as they have been disowned by their owner and those responsible and survive thanks to meagre assistance by the Mission to Seafarers, says Captain of the ship, Mushtaq Ahamed Kapade. Speaking to The Sunday Island, Capt Kapade said that their shipowner had abandoned them on Oct 18, 2019. “I joined as the Master of the ship which left Vishakapatnam on Sept 24, 2019 to Tuticorin Port in Tamil Nadu. We had to cut our journey midway due to engine troubles that we experienced off Sangamankanda Light House on Oct 2, 2019. We sought the assistance from Colombo Harbour, the nearest to us then. ...
Investing in Sri Lanka – by Patrick Ranasinghe Investing in Sri Lanka Video – English Sri Lanka would have been much developed country and rated top three in tie spears in Asian and south Asia. Electronics now supply sensors Airbus 260 and Colombo Harbour the commercial hub in Indian Ocean for investors, Tourism if not the highly corrupted politicians who steal public money in every project. It’s well know that Sri Lanka will lose many valuable foreign investments due to asking for commissions from foreign investors by the government’s ministers that Including the Jaffna Tamil regions and community? And employing the future generation for our recovery in the future. ...
“ST.ANTHONY’S CHURCH KOCHCHIKADE’ – By Des Kelly Another extremely interesting “article” by “Journo” DISHAN JOSEPH, about a Church that I know very well. This amazing “Shrine”, named after the Catholic Saint who, as everyone knows, is even better known, because of the beautiful picture of him, holding the Christ-child in his arms. Incidentally, although I certainly do not deserve it, my parents gave me HIS name, following a vow to St.Anthony, even before I was born, thus making my first Christian name, Anthony. As far as I remember my Roman Catholic Catechism, there were two “Saints” who were always called upon (in prayer), by people who were in any sort of trouble. One was St.Anthony, of course, and the other was St.Jude. Another reason that Dishan’s story also interested me was because that, practically adjoining this famous Church, was the Royal Ceylon Navy land base “Gemunu ll”, where ...
