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Patali Champika Ranawaka: Mihin and Sri Lankan Airlines debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/6/2020)
FALSE: Through SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, every person in the country has been made a debtor to the value of LKR 12,500.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Divaina, 28 August 2019
GL Peiris: 19A Dissolution
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2020)
TRUE: Before the 19th Amendment, when a new president was elected, he had the power to dissolve parliament and to call for an election to elect a parliament that would be in alignment with his policies… [After the 19th ...
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Loans from Japan
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/8/2020)
TRUE: As a country, Japan has given the most in loans at low interest rates.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Aruna, 16 June 2020
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: Tourism earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/16/2022)
FALSE: Tourism is a 10-billion-dollar industry, and for the last two years we have not been able to enjoy the fruits of that. – Ajith Nivad Cabraal, Bloomberg, 18 February 2022.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rape statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2019)
TRUE: 1,600 [young] girls are raped every year
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Divaina, 25 October 2019
Keheliya Rambukwella: GDP growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/15/2020)
TRUE: When President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country in 2005, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 20 billion. In ten years, we increased the GDP to USD 80 billion.
- Keheliya Rambukwella, Dinamina, 4 December 2019
Vijitha Herath: Interest Payments and Government Income
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/10/2019)
FALSE: According to the 2018 Central Bank Annual Report, when the total income was Rs. 1,920 billion, the interest payments were at Rs. 2,088 billion. There was a deficit of Rs. 168 billion.
- Vijitha Herath, Divaina, 28 May 2019
Maithripala Sirisena - crime and rape statistics
(factchecklka - Facebook, 9/28/2018)
PARTLY TRUE: The number of murders in Sri Lanka in 2008 was 1,378. In 2010, the number was 741; in 2013, it was 586; in 2014, it was 548; and in 2015 it was 476. Last year, in 2017, there were 452 homicides in Sri Lanka. ...
Sajith Premadasa: Fuel price reduction
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/6/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: The price of a litre of 95 octane petrol is Rs. 161 and this can be priced at Rs. 94. A litre of super diesel is sold at Rs. 132 and this price can be reduced to Rs. 77. A litre of diesel is sold at Rs. 104 ...
Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: Covid-19 community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/4/2020)
TRUE: …No [COVID-19] patients were reported from the community in the period of close to three weeks that elapsed, because the disease did not spread amongst the community.
- Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Ada Derana, 20 May 2020