Browsing FactCheck by Title

Now showing items 54-73 of 227

    • Eran Wickramaratne: All Borrowings Used to Repay Debt 

      E487;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/22/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 19 June 2019

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Excise taxes 

      FactCheck.lk;P0092
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/12/2024)
      PARTLY TRUE: The government, despite taking the path of revenue-based stabilisation, has fallen significantly short of its targets. For instance, excise revenues have fallen short by approximately 43%, with collection at ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Female Labour Force Participation 

      P0002;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/24/2019)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka’s Labour Force Participation (LFP) was 36% for women versus 75% for men in 2016, which is the 14th largest gender gap in LFP globally. In 2016, young women have the highest unemployment rate in Sri Lanka; ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Foreign investment 

      S2680;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/25/2021)
      TRUE: There has been a big outflow of foreign investment from the stock exchange. In terms of rupee value, Rs. 51 billion outflows was registered in the year 2020… - Eran Wickramaratne, Lanka Business Online, 18 January 2021

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Reserves 

      FactCheck;E1369
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/24/2022)
      TRUE: Compared to 2019 and 2021, the decrease in foreign reserves is 80% in Sri Lanka. But other countries in the [South Asian] region have seen an escalation of their reserves. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 25 January 2022

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Sri Lanka's record cost of interest 

      FactCheck;E1139
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/30/2021)
      TRUE: 70% of government revenue is spent on interest on loan repayment. Lebanon is the only country in the world that pays higher interest than Sri Lanka as a percentage of national revenue. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Tourism Percentage of GDP 

      S952;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/10/2019)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka’s tourism sector accounts for 5% of gross domestic product. - Eran Wickramaratne, Dinamina, 22 May 2019

    • G.L. Peiris: Presidential Immunity under 19A 

      FactCheck;P0011
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2020)
      FALSE: As long as 19A is in force, the president has to waste his time in courts…That is why immunity is needed… - G.L. Peiris, Aruna, 8 September 2020

    • Gamini Lokuge: On the strength of EPF 

      FactCheck;P0025
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/22/2021)
      FALSE: The Employees Provident Fund has become the strongest fund in Asia today. - Gamini Lokuge, Parliament Hansard, 9 February 2021

    • Gayantha Karunatilleka: Income Inequality 

      ;S2779
      FactCheck       (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

    • Gayantha Karunatilleka: Students-to-academic staff ratio 

      FactCheck.lk;P0089
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/30/2023)
      FALSE: Although the number of academic staff is dwindling [in recent months], the annual intake of students at universities has doubled since 2017. Gayantha Karunatilleka, NewsFirst, 19 October 2023

    • GL Peiris: 19A Dissolution 

      FactCheck;S2426
      FactCheck       (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 ...

    • GMOA: COVID-19 Statistics 

      P0008;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/2/2020)
      FALSE: “We are in a worst situation compared to Italy at the end of the first 7 days (from 1st Local Case). Peak of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka can be expected during New Year Season if we do not take more aggressive decisions ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Child disability statistics 

      E548;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/27/2020)
      FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President's Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Foreign Loans 

      FactCheck;P0038
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2022)
      FALSE: I have not taken a cent in foreign loans during my two years in office. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Newswire, 7 January 2022,

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: GDP growth 

      S2358;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/2/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: Prior to 2015, the economic growth rate was between 7% and 8%, but by 2019, it fell below 2%. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Divaina, 16 June 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds 

      FactCheck;P0048
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)
      PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Misinformation on disability data 

      FactCheck;E548
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2020)
      FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President’s Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department 

      FactCheck;S2502
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)
      TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Release of military occupied land 

      E464;
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2019)
      FALSE: "We are the people who released 90% of the land" - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Inaugural Press Conference, 16 October 2019