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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 -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Money printing
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/9/2023)TRUE: We put the Central Bank there [in charge] without meddling in it. Henceforth, according to the law, we won’t be able to print money. We have lost our ability to borrow (obtain loans) from the Bank of Ceylon and the ... -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Penal code on foreign terrorist organizations
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/2/2019)FALSE: “To take part in a foreign armed uprising is not an offence here…. there is no law to prevent you from that." - Ranil Wickremesinghe, Interview with SkyNews, 26 April 2019 -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Rajapaksa era exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/5/2019)PARTLY TRUE: In the ten years of the Rajapaksa administration, this country’s exports fell from 30% to 18%. - Ranil Wickremesinghe, Divaina, 12 August 2019 -
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. ... -
Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Crime reduction statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/18/2019)PARTLY TRUE: During the last four years, the rates of all forms of crime […] declined drastically […] under this government compared to the previous Rajapaksa regime. The murder rate which was 646 in 2012 has decreased to ... -
Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Drowning statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/25/2019)About 800 deaths due to drowning are reported annually. -
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: Fiscal stability
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/15/2023)PARTLY TRUE: …we are coming step by step towards fiscal stability. Even the IMF calculated that for this first quarter, our primary account balance will be negative by Rs. 56 billion. But we have brought this quarter…to a ... -
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: On tax paying labour force
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/16/2023)FALSE: "Only 120,965 persons or 2.6 percent of the labour force, who are earning over Rs.100,000 per month, are subjected to the PAYE tax." Ranjith Siyabalapitiya, Daily Mirror, 11 February 2023 -
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: Vehicle imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/20/2023)TRUE: ...within that period [2015-2020], we have brought 2,498,714 vehicles...worth Rs. 1,331.51 billion...We have taxed [them to the value of] 991.12 billion. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, YouTube Page of Parliament of Sri ... -
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 ... -
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 -
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya: Pensions and Aswesuma
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-08)TRUE: [A group of] 4 million are watching the government expectantly. 2 million out of that are government employees and pensioners who are expecting an increase in salaries and the other 2 million are those who have been ... -
Rauff Hakeem: Governance and Economic Crimes
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/3/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Come September, we will be the first Asian country to be subjected to IMF review of governance diagnostic. [...] In the meantime, even in the Geneva Resolution against Sri Lanka, they spoke about the need to ... -
Religious incidents in Mullaitivu: How did the press cover it?
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/11/2019)Manner in which the SInhala and Tamil press covered tensions regarding the Nayaru/Gurukanda religious site in Mullaitivu from 30 June to 11 July 2019. Sinhala press - 11 articles Tamil press - 34 articles -
Religious violence against Christians: Disruptions and Distractions - November 2021 to October 2022
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-10)Ethno-religious violence is an enduring feature in Sri Lanka irrespective of the changes to the country’s socio-political and economic landscapes. This study offers insights into key patterns of violence directed against ... -
Resignation of Muslim politicians: splitting or slapping?
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 6/24/2019)The entry contains writeups in all three languages and images of newspaper articles pertaining to the resignation of Muslim MPs against the hunger strike carried out by Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera demanding the resignation ... -
Rishad Bathiudeen: Export Services
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/9/2019)TRUE: … ICT/BPM, electronics, printing and packaging services – alone contributes to around $1.3 billion in export revenues every year. - Rishad Bathiudeen, Daily FT, 28 August 2019 -
Rohana Bandara: Sri Lanka's debt to China
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/3/2021)TRUE: 14% of Sri Lanka’s debt is owed to China… - Rohana Bandara, Dinamina, 10 May 2021 -
Ruwan Wijewardena: Covid-19 death analysis
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/23/2021)PARTLY TRUE: It is said that 10 patients are dying every hour. The rate at which patients are dying is 1.5%. Sri Lanka has become the country that reports the highest death rate in Asia due to COVID-19. - Ruwan Wijewardena, ...