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David Woolger, Ena de Silva, Galkulama, Geoffrey Bawa, JR Jayewardene, KELTS, Lakshman Jayatilleke, Neil Kemp, Post-Colonial Perspectives, Premadasa
If aid to English was what interested me most, more spectacular was what the British in the early eighties saw as the flagship of their training programmes, a Construction Industry Training Project that was obviously intended to help with the large infrastructure development programmes that Jayewardene and Premadasa had initiated. I suppose it is a sign of comparative poverty now, as much as of hostility to the current government, that the British provide us with no such assistance for the much more comprehensive, if less grandiose, programme of infrastructural development in which this government is engaged. Fortunately the Japanese have continued as helpful now as they were earlier, and there are lots of others to contribute largesse now, who in the eighties were still far behind the West with regard to political and economic influence.