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Lakshman Kiriella: Bond scandal assets freeze
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/11/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: The allegation is that the UNP caused a loss of LKR 10 billion through bonds. The country has not experienced a loss because the CBSL froze/impounded LKR 12 billion from Perpetual Treasuries. However, the ...
Kanchana Wijesekera: Electricity Generation Cost
(www.factcheck.lk , 1/27/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: If we are in a situation where there is no rainfall, provided that we are able to obtain all the coal we need by April, we would be able to provide electricity all 24 hours of the day, without interruptions…That ...
Harsha De silva: Government debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/1/2020)
TRUE: …the government made a hue and cry [those days] saying that the debt rose by Rs. 5,700 billion in five years, didn’t they? However, during their time, it has risen by [approximately] Rs. 1,000 billion in just four ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Inflation
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/7/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: Inflation, which had skyrocketed to 70 percent, has now decreased to 25.2 percent, lightening the burden of daily life for all of us.
Ranil Wickremesinghe, Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka, 1 June 2023
Gayantha Karunatilleka: Income Inequality
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/29/2021)
TRUE: 35% of our country's national income is enjoyed by 10% of the population. - Gayantha Karunatilleka, Divaina, 30 March 2021
Eran Wickramaratne - Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/12/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: If we look at remittances, the highest amount of remittances have been received in 2016, 2017, 2018. Thereafter, some arrived in 2020 and after that, it has declined steadily. Remittances peaked at around USD ...
Nalaka Kottegoda: Fertiliser Consumption
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/10/2021)
FALSE: Sri Lanka had imported 574,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser in 2020… Sri Lanka has become the top chemical fertiliser user in South Asia. We use 284 kg of chemical fertiliser per hectare.- Nalaka Kottegoda, Daily ...
Ali Sabry: Tax revenue
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/9/2022)
PARTLY TRUE: It [tax revenue as a percentage of GDP] decreased over time, under all these governments [every government since 1981] and today it has collapsed to a value of 8.7%. Mohamed Ali Sabry, Asian Mirror YouTube ...
Ranjit Siyabalapitiya: Fiscal Position
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/2/2023)
FALSE: In 2022, the government’s revenue and expenditure difference were as high as 256% or Rs. 3,058 billion. [In 2023] The government expect the revenue to be Rs. 3.45 trillion, while the expenditure will go up to Rs. ...
Dinesh Gunawardena: Foreign Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2020)
TRUE: In 2018 the income the country received from overseas workers was about USD 7 billion. That was 7.9% of that year’s GDP.
- Dinesh Gunawardena, Divaina, 9 June 2020