A majority of funds from USAID have gone into healthcare, digitization, historical preservation, education efforts, counter trafficking and recently it was USAID who paid for our fertilizer. [1]
It’s always best to do a bit of Googling before broadcasting one’s ignorance and stupidity in public like this.
When I was a kid growing up in Galle, a friend of my parents who had worked many years as a nurse complained regularly that her toes were twisted with the particular kind of shoes that were required to wear for her uniform. Recently she passed away.
#SriLanka#NursingUniform
You are not in a Chennai talkie to flex your muscle in an audience. As a minister you could have been more professional in listening to both parties and solving this than to be the area gangster @JeevanThondaman shame 🤷♂️
"When I told my father I was going to marry Jake he said, ‘If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.’
He was horrified that I could contemplate marrying a black man, and I soon learned that most people felt the same way. The first years of our marriage living in Birmingham were hell — I cried every day, and barely ate. No one would speak to us, we couldn’t find anywhere to live because no one would rent to a black man, and we had no money.
People would point at us in the street. Then I gave birth to a stillborn son at eight months. It wasn’t related to the stress I was under but it broke my heart, and we never had any more children.
We were at the same technical college. I was having typing and shorthand lessons and he’d been sent there for training by the Air Force. He was with a group of black friends and they called my friend and me over to talk. We didn’t even know they spoke English, but Jake and I got chatting. He quoted Shakespeare to me, which I loved.
Jake returned to Trinidad, but we carried on writing to each other, and a few years later he returned to the UK to get better paid work.
He asked me to marry him, quite out of the blue, when I was only 19. My father threw me out, and I left with only one small suitcase to my name. No family came to our register office wedding in 1948.
But gradually life became easier. I got teaching jobs, ending up as a deputy head teacher. First Jake worked in a factory, then for the Post Office.
Slowly we made friends together, but it was so hard. I used to say to new friends: ‘Look, I have to tell you this before I invite you to my home — my husband is black.’
My father died when I was 30 and although we were reconciled by then, he never did approve of Jake.
Today we have been married for 63 years, and are still very much in love. I do not regret marrying him for an instant, despite all the pain we have suffered."
Le Sri Lanka et la France sont deux nations de l'océan Indien qui partagent un même objectif : un Indo-Pacifique ouvert, inclusif et prospère.
À Colombo nous l’avons confirmé : forts de 75 ans de relations diplomatiques, nous pouvons ouvrir une nouvelle ère de notre partenariat.
The most common last name:
🇦🇷 Argentina → Gonzalez
🇦🇺 Australia → Smith
🇧🇩 Bangladesh → Akter
🇧🇷 Brazil → Da Silva
🇨🇦 Canada → Smith
🇨🇳 China → Wang
🇪🇬 Egypt → Mohamed
🇪🇹 Ethiopia → Tesfaye
🇫🇷 France → Martin
🇩🇪 Germany → Muller
🇮🇳 India → Kumar
🇮🇩 Indonesia → Sari
🇮🇶 Iraq → Mohamed
🇮🇪 Ireland → Murphy
🇯🇵 Japan → Sato
🇯🇴 Jordan → Allah
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan → Akhmetov
🇲🇽 Mexico → Hernandez
🇳🇱 Netherlands → De Jong
🇳🇬 Nigeria → Musa
🇰🇵 North Korea → Kim
🇴🇲 Oman → Al Balushi
🇵🇰 Pakistan → Ahmad
🇵🇸 Palestine → Awad
🇵🇭 Philippines → Dela Cruz
🇵🇹 Portugal → Silva
🇷🇴 Romania → Popa
🇷🇺 Russia → Ivanova
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia → Khan
🇿🇦 South Africa → Nkosi
🇰🇷 South Korea → Kim
🇪🇸 Spain → Garcia
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka → Perera
🇸🇪 Sweden → Andersson
🇹🇷 Turkey → Yilmaz
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates → Ali
🇬🇧 United Kingdom → Smith
🇺🇸 United States → Smith
🇻🇳 Vietnam → Nguyen
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe → Moyo
"LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE" - Muslims and Christians unite on the streets of Ottawa, trampling the Gender Ideology Flag. This is a turning point. Let kids be kids.
A woman & five children are dead after a Japanese "Fu-Go" balloon bomb exploded in Oregon, USA. Pregnant Elsie Mitchell was taking a Sunday School class, aged 14-11, on an outing. They are the only Americans killed by enemy action in the USA since the war began.