Another special day of the Easter season, today is known as Alleluia Saturday. On Good Friday, Christ was crucified, killed, and buried in a rock, and rose from the dead on this night.As a long-standing custom, people dressed in black to symbolize demons, parade through the streets, carrying green branches, …

A discussion has emerged about the murals being created by the youth across the country, with various opinions at the forefront.Various criticisms have already been raised about the murals that highlight militarism, war and nationalism.However, the youth group behind it claims that none of that will happen in Negombo.“We do …

We know that Negombo is the cradle of Sinhala cinema, which began with a broken promise half a century ago. The only daughter of Mr. C. Khenzamin Fernando, who is considered the pioneer of the Mangala Drama Society that was formed before the formation of the Minerva Drama Society, and …

(11.00 am) In 1937, the then Municipal Secretary of the Negombo Municipal Council, Mr. Earl de Alwis, suggested that the Municipal Council needed an official emblem and with the approval of the council, a competition was organized for the purpose. The emblem submitted by the famous artist Mr. Godamanne, who …

To make the family’s meals tasty, the old village women prepared spices and salt properly. Every house had a salt shaker. They were good at making curries tasty by adding spices like ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon bark, and pepper. With the urbanization of the village, the way of preparing such …