Reactions to my blog: "who cares a shit?" It is true. The voices of business, of chambers, of civil society especially Colombo residents are silent. "trees are renewable and not to be deified". The argument is that we could replant - maybe but not in the same place, and in the same time frame, surely.
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They are at it again - DESTROYING TREES
pictures taken from my Nokia phone, June26th, 1245 pm This time down Wijerama Mawatha. If you are travelling from Gregory's Road to Baudhaloka Mawatha, all the trees on the left hand side are being destroyed as I write. To widen the road. To make way for school traffic ( which is only a problem for about 4 hours per day, and for about 9 months of the year). Making Colombo beautiful is one thing.. but not at the expense of our tree cover! HELP!
Spending my tax money
The garden in front of Ward 34 at the National Hospital My uncle has chosen to have his bypass operation at the national hospital, and has secured a bed in Ward 34 and is being prepared for surgery. I've been visiting him daily and I am really pleased to see the whole hospital looking clean and welcoming, the gardens beautifully landscaped and well maintained (see photo), the ward quite spic and span. At the end of visiting time, the corridor is mopped, and my uncle says the toilets are clean and in full working order! There must be about 50 patients in Ward 34, including two young boys with holes in the heart. Think of the number of heart operations that must take place, and how many people are able to get a new lease of life, purely because of state health care? In the bed next to my uncle is a man from Madu, who was first admitted to the Mannar hospital, then transferred to Jaffna, and from Jaffna airlifted to Colombo. All by the state health service...