What the Diaspora can do for Sri Lanka: Chris Ponnadurai, Jetwing Jaffna’s founding General Manager-By Jekhan Aruliah Jekhan Aruliah An appreciation on the retirement of a man who fled Sri Lanka’s communal riots in 1984 to settle in Australia, and returned three decades later in 2015 to setup Jaffna’s first luxury hotel. Devoting five years of his life as the hands-on General Manager of Jetwing Jaffna. Chris Ponnadurai Chris was born in Colombo in 1951, the seventh of eight children. His father was a school inspector, who moved the family often as he was transferred around the country. Spending his early life in Jaffna, Batticaloa, and Ratnapura, Chris’ family then moved to Colombo where he finished his school career at the prestigious Isipathana College. From there he joined the Ceylon Hotel School. ...
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Uki offers an alternate route from the Northern Province into the tech industry-by JEKHAN ARULIAH SOURCE:lankabusinessonline Does Sri Lanka need more university graduates? Sri Lanka has tens of thousands of unemployed graduates. Every now and then the government brings thousands more of them into the Public Service, further bloating an already bloated service. In December 2019 a government minister promised jobs for all 64,000 (his figures) unemployed graduates! More public sector bureaucrats needing more bureaucracy to keep them busy and the rest of us waiting! According to the Bureau of Census & Statistics the Public Sector in Sri Lanka grew over 30% between 2006 and 2016, while in the same period the population of Sri Lanka grew by only 7.5%. Have public servants increasing four times faster than the public improved public service? Students chase A’s in their A Levels hoping to get into university. However the three A’s an employer really needs are not ...
Jaffna’s Institute of Medical Sciences bringing medical careers and care to the Northern Province-by JEKHAN ARULIAH SOURCE:lankabusinessonline During the 2020 COVID-19 “Corona” Virus pandemic we really loved our health workers. We all loved them because COVID-19 hit everyone. Not through infection but through curfews. Businesses closing, shopping & socializing banned, incomes lost, economic hardship, and the stress of being locked in with our loved ones. Diseases are usually suffered bravely by “other people”, infecting only a minority, so most of us need only show sympathy. COVID-19 was suffered by all of us, casting its shadows right into our own jobs, our own homes, our own refrigerators, and our own purses. So we all really felt it. For a few months health staff were celebrated as superheroes. But the ingratitude of humanity strikes back quicker than a snakebite. Already the healthcare heroes are being forgotten. While we still remember our love for medical professionals it’s ...
Jul 29, 2020
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