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Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: Forest Cover
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/5/2021)
TRUE: Sri Lanka's forest cover is only 29.2 percent.
- Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Lankadeepa, 9 December 2020
Udaya Gammanpila: Powers of Executive Presidency
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/29/2019)
FALSE: …there has been no major change from the Presidency before the 19th Amendment to the current office of the president. Only three powers of the presidency were removed by the 19th Amendment.
- Udaya Gammanpila, ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rajapaksa budget
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/2/2021)
FALSE: There are 4 Rajapaksas who represent the cabinet. There is also a state minister as well. How much of funds have been allocated to that family—to the ministries they represent? The total expenditure is 5,200 billion ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Money printing
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/9/2023)
TRUE: We put the Central Bank there [in charge] without meddling in it. Henceforth, according to the law, we won’t be able to print money. We have lost our ability to borrow (obtain loans) from the Bank of Ceylon and the ...
Harini Amarasuriya: Female Labor Force Participation
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)
TRUE: ..according to the 2009 [sic, 2019] Annual Report from the Central Bank, the female labour force participation rate of Sri Lanka was 34.5%. It was 73% for men... We have one of the lowest female labour force participation ...
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Credit cards and tax files
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/25/2021)
BLATANTLY FALSE: There are nearly 1,000 tax files in our country. There are over 10 million credit cards in our country. Each credit card holder does transactions of nearly Rs. 1 million to 1.5 million. - Mahindananda ...
Bandula Gunawardana: Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/20/2022)
FALSE: The debt stood at 2 trillion when Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country. It stood at 7 trillion at the time he handed over the country. The debt only rose by 5 trillion in [those] 10 years. [But] The debt stood ...
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: Foreign Reserves
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/28/2021)
TRUE: We had USD 8.2 billion in reserves… When the good governance government handed us the government, there was only USD 7.6 billion in reserves.
- Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Mawbima, 7 January 2021
Ashok Abeysinghe: Passenger transport
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/7/2019)
TRUE: As of now, the number of passengers travelling by train is about 400,000… In [bus] passenger transport, the private sector does about 75%, and SLTB buses do 25%.
- Ashok Abeysinghe, Divaina, June 24
Sudath Samaraweera: Community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/11/2020)
FALSE: “If positive cases are reported without the origin, then it can be identified as a community transmission. In other words, community transmission takes place when cases are reported with no connection to the existing ...