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Ajith Nivard Cabraal: ISB debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/26/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: As of now (February 2021), the total ISBs outstanding is USD 14 billion, which is only 16.7 percent of Sri Lanka’s total debt. None of the other creditors who hold 83.3 percent of Sri Lanka’s debt seem to show ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)
PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ...
Bandula Gunawardana: Central Bank Liability
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/25/2020)
TRUE: When money is deposited in a financial institution, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is only responsible for up to LKR 600,000.
- Bandula Gunawardana, Department of Government Information Facebook Page, 4 June 2020
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Yahapalanaya revenue increase
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/29/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: When the Yahapalana government came into power, state revenue was LKR 1.05 trillion. Our government doubled this income to LKR 2.1 trillion within 5 years.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Lankadeepa, 6 February 2020
Sajith Premadasa: Sugar Scam
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/9/2021)
TRUE: Sri Lanka has lost Rs. 20 billion as a result of the sugar scam.
- Sajith Premadasa, Official Facebook page of Sajith Premadasa, 27 August 2021
Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Crime reduction statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/18/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: During the last four years, the rates of all forms of crime […] declined drastically […] under this government compared to the previous Rajapaksa regime. The murder rate which was 646 in 2012 has decreased to ...
Ashok Abeysinghe: Health budget allocations
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/17/2019)
TRUE: In 2010, LKR 53.1 billion was allocated for free healthcare; in 2015, we allocated LKR 139.5 billion. In 2016, [it was] LKR 174 billion. In 2019, an amount of LKR 194.5 billion were allocated. This means that 10% of ...
Sunanda Madduma Bandara: Local Government elections
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/23/2023)
FALSE: […] all the local government elections held after 1991 have been postponed without being held within the stipulated time. […]
Sunanda Madduma Bandara, Lankadeepa, 25 October 2023
Ali Sabry: IGP removal
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/10/2020)
FALSE: The then IGP may not have been at fault for the Easter attack. However, if the president wants to remove him, he cannot do so under this constitution.
- Ali Sabry, Lankadeepa, 16 August 2020
Rajitha Senaratne: Cigarette taxes
(factchecklka - Facebook, 3/14/2019)
FALSE: "We have acted appropriately against the use of tobacco and imposed a 90% tax on tobacco in an attempt to reduce tobacco usage."
- Rajitha Senaratne, Daily News, 20 February 2019