The Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) hosted their guests to just such an occasion on November 27th at t he Cinnamon Grand.Over 300 directors and their guests who sat to wine and dine over an elegant 6 course dinner with tasteful entertainment throughout the evening.The annual sit down dinner was held for the second consecutive year t o raise funds for the free workshops that SLID conducts in cities throughout Sri Lanka. SLID believes that providing the country’s corporates, particularly the growing number of SMEs, with knowledge of the regulatory framework and a greater understanding of positive corporate behavioural values, will contribute to economic development.

Rather than limiting these benefits to Colombo alone, the workshops have already taken place in Kandy, Ratnapura, Gampaha, Hambanthota, Jaffna, Trincomalee, Kilinochchi, and Matara.Jeff Mirza, the award winning comedian who had flown down from London specially for the SLID event, made his grand entrance heralded by the sounds of his trade mark bhangra music.

Many lent their support: among them the Gold sponsor was KBSL Information Technologies Ltd, whilst Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC and IWS shared the role of Silver sponsor with Continental Insurance Lanka Ltd being the Bronze sponsor and Union Assurance and Aitken Spence as the annual corporate sponsors of SLID.