Expatriate pilots for SriLankan Airlines Source:Island The Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva, went on record a few days ago saying that if all the pilots in SriLankan Airlines leave, he will get foreign pilots to replace them. He stated this at a joint programme of CAASL and IATA on Aviation Day at Katunayake on Friday, July 14, 2023, surrounded by a group of aviation experts who could have advised him better. Instead of treating the symptoms, shouldn’t the root cause be identified and rectified? It is easier said than done to employ an expatriate pilot. SriLankan Airlines would have to offer a substantial world-class salary in comparison to the relative pittance currently paid to local pilots. During the pandemic the SriLankan Airlines management halved the pilots’ pay and pegged the value of their US-dollar based salaries to an unrealistically arbitrary low figure. ...
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“A LEADER OF NOTE” – by Des Kelly As the saying goes, all human beings from around this planet, and even off it, nowadays, are learning something with each passing day. FROM WOMB TO TOMB, THEY SAY, YOURE LEARNING ANEW, EVERYDAY. Our thanks to both Kandiah S. & Keith B. Now without further ado, let us all turn to, A leader of note, Mr. Lee Kwang Yu, Who has now passed on, no longer walking, But turn to your IT, to hear him talking. Desmond Kelly. (Mr.Music) (Editor-in-Chief) e’Lanka. ...
Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew at Anuradhapura Source:Island One day President JRJ telephoned me from Nuwara Eliya. He was wont to occasionally telephone me direct in the past. He informed me that PM Lee Kuan Yew would be arriving in Anuradhapura two days later, with Minister Gamini Dissanayake in attendance. I was to give the PM of Singapore the ancient city treatment for 40 minutes, and to remember to show him where Fa Hien the Chinese pilgrim cried, during his sojourn at the Abhayagiri monastery. So I arrived at the appointed meeting place, the Tissawewa rest house where the Singapore PM and his party were having refreshments. I saw Murthy of the Overseas Service, who told me that I was expected, and that both the Singaporean PM and his wife were “top lawyers” who were educated at Cambridge. I was to expect searching questions. ...
Ceylon/Sri Lanka in the words of Lee Kuan Yew The founding father of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew will be laid to rest today. He had first travelled to Sri Lanka in 1956and remembered his stay at the Galle Face Hotel in his autobiography ‘The Singapore Story’. During his stay in Colombo he had dined with S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and also played golf with Dudley Senanyake. He remembered interacting with Sirimavo Bandaranaike and described the world’s first woman Prime Minister as a tough person. Lee had also visited the University of Peradeniya and played golf in Nuwara Eliya staying at ‘The Lodge’, the official residence of former British Governors. The following are excerpts from ‘The Singap My fist visit to Sri Lanka was in April 1956 on my way to London. I stayed at the Galle Face Hotel, their premier British-era hotel by the sea. I walked around the city of Colombo, impressed by the public buildings, many with stone facing undamaged by war. Because Mountbatten had based ...
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Oct 1, 2016
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