Search
Now showing items 71-80 of 219
Namal Rajapaksa: Controlling COVID-19
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/21/2021)
FALSE: In the South Asian Region, the country that has most successfully controlled the pandemic is Sri Lanka - Namal Rajapaksa, Mawbima, 12 July 2021
Sanath Nishantha: GDP growth rankings of Sri Lanka and China
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/26/2021)
BLATANTLY FALSE: When we handed over the country to the Yahapalanaya government, China had the highest GDP growth rate in the world, and Sri Lanka was second.
- Sanath Nishantha, Lankadeepa, 30 July 2021
Tilak Marapana: Release of military acquired lands
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/13/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: Of the 71,172.56 acres of state-owned land occupied by the security forces, 63,257.48 acres were released between May 2009 and 12 March 2019. This is a release of 88.87% of the initially occupied land.
- Tilak ...
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Agriculture
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2020)
FALSE: 40% of the population is directly employed in agriculture.
- Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Mawbima, 17 August 2020
Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Provincial GDP = අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක - පළාත් දළ දේශීය නිෂ්පාදිතය = அனுரா குமார திசாநாயக்க - மாகாண மொத்த உள்நாட்டு உற்பத்தி
(factchecklka - Facebook, 10/4/2018)
BLATANTLY FALSE: According to the Annual Report published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), the Western Province contributes to 52% of the GDP of the country…The rest of the provinces in the country collectively ...
Harin Fernando: Chinese tourists
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/13/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: If each Chinese tourist spent $5,000 that could raise a figure comparable to the recent International Monetary Fund bailout…If you really look at it, tourism can get Sri Lanka out of this mess.
Harin Fernando, ...
Patali Champika Ranawaka: True on SL’s uneasy equilibrium, false on fuel bill savings
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/13/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: …the current normalcy in the country is at a low-level equilibrium. This is an uneasy equilibrium.... Our normal [monthly] fuel bill stood at US $ 550 million. It has now been cut down to US $ 200 million…
Patali ...
Nalaka Godahewa: Tax targets
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/26/2023)
FALSE: […] The expected tax income for 2023 is Rs 3,130 billion [a 70% increase from 2022]. It is not something practical. Since the tax net is not functioning properly, the tax burden will fall on the same people who paid ...
National Freedom Front: Auditor General's duties under 20A
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)
TRUE: The provision under which companies registered under the Registrar of Companies and of which the government is the majority shareholder, have been removed from the audit process of the Auditor General [in the proposed ...
Bandula Gunawardana: Tax Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/12/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: The tax revenue in 2014 at the end of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government was Rs. 1,050 billion. Thereafter, its successor the Good Governance Government imposed tax rates to collect more than Rs. 1,700 billion a ...