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Wimal Weerawansa: Industrial Income and Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/31/2021)
TRUE: Industries occupy a special place in the national manufacturing process in Sri Lanka which is about 26.4% of the national GDP, and only a very low percentage of about 10% contributes to exports. - Wimal Weerawansa, ...
S. M. Marikkar: COVID-19 Vaccination
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: Not even 2 million of the Sri Lankan population has been vaccinated as of now. We have vaccinated the least number of people in the region. - S.M. Marikkar, Aruna, 26 May 2021
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Debt restructuring
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/18/2023)
TRUE: Programme financing gaps: debt service reduction during 2023-27 should be sufficient to close external financing gaps. Under staff baseline scenario, US$17 billion in debt service reduction is required, including the ...
Nalaka Godahewa: Population dependence on agriculture sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/19/2021)
FALSE: Although the contribution by the agriculture sector to the country’s economy is less than 10%, the segment of the population that is dependent on the sector for income is one-third of this country’s population, [that ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Export Agriculture Crops
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2021)
TRUE: The revenue from export agricultural crops stood at Rs. 63,000 million in 2019. Within one year we have been able to increase it to Rs. 73,000 million.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, Dinamina, 3 March 2021
Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: mobile phone taxes
(factchecklka - Facebook, 1/9/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: When a mobile phone user in our country pays Rs. 5,000 [as the mobile phone bill], Rs. 1,600 of it goes towards paying taxes.
- ANura Priyadharshana Yapa, 26 October 2018, Divaina
Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.”
- Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya: Import Shortage
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/23/2023)
FALSE: …It is because this step was taken [ban imports on certain items] that essential items such as fuel, medicine and fertiliser can be imported without any shortages…
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya, Newswire, 26 January 2023
Anura Kumara Dissanayake - National Wealth
(www.factcheck.lk , 3/2/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: Today, 36% of our country’s national wealth is generated from the Western Province. The North Central Province’s contribution to our country’s national wealth is 5%. The contribution of the North Western ...
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya: Casino taxes
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/5/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: […] Effective April 1, 2023, we hope to impose a fee of USD 50 on every Sri Lankan who enters such a place of business of gaming. This law was in place since 2015. From 2015, the stated law was to charge USD ...