Media: Recent submissions
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Udaya Gammanpila: Increase in electricity bill
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/22/2023)PARTLY TRUE: From the very short period between last year's August and this year's March…the [electricity] bill increase [was]…1,138% for the poor man [a consumer who uses 30 units] and 160% for the rich man [a person using ... -
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 ... -
Bandula Gunawardane: Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/8/2023)TRUE: …. the Fiscal Management Responsibility Act No. 3 of 2003…had three main goals…to maintain the budget gap below 5%..... reducing public debt as a percentage of GDP to 65% by 2013, that is, in 10 years…. reducing the ... -
Harsha de Silva: EPF and ETF
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/25/2023)TRUE: The majority of Sri Lanka’s domestic debt is in treasury bonds. We have [almost 9,000 billion] worth of treasury bonds….44.5% of that is in banks….43% was borrowed from EPF & ETF. Harsha de Silva, Daily FT, 20 April 2023 -
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$17 billion in debt service reduction is required, including the ... -
Manusha Nayanakkara: Rise in remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/11/2023)TRUE: Sri Lankan migrant workers’ foreign remittances increased to US$ 568.3 million in March 2023 from US$ 318.4 million in March 2022. This is a 78.5% (US$ 249.9 million) increase compared to the inflows recorded in March ... -
Wimal Weerasansa: Total Export Income
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/4/2023)FALSE: The total export income has reduced by almost 10% this year when compared to last year. This is a huge reduction. Therefore, it is clear that the economic strategy the government is following under the guidance of ... -
Nandalal Weerasighe: Money Printing
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/27/2023)TRUE: The total base money printed in 2021 was Rs. 344 billion, whilst the net basis reserve money issued in 2022 was below Rs. 40 billion. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Daily FT, 11 February 2023 -
කාන්තාවන් පිළිබඳව වාර්තා කිරීමේදී, ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07)On July 14 2022, Dinamina published an article regarding serveral protesters who occupied the Prime Minister's Office being hospitalised in the attempt, which contained the ethical violation of highlighting gender in ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වය ඍණාත්මකව ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07)On July 27 2022, Dinamina published an article where they have irrelevantly highlighted the ethnicity of a prominent ‘Aragalaya’(struggle) activist, Dhanish Ali, as a ‘Tamil’ national who converted to ‘Islam’ , in a negative ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07-28)On July 28 2022, an article published in Aruna newspaper used the term “disabled”, thereby discriminating them. A similar article in Dinamina used the reference“people with disabilities” instead, thereby using person-first ... -
Susil Premajayantha: Efficiency of IMF process
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/26/2023)BLATANTLY FALSE: On previous occasions, we obtained money from the IMF after pledging to fulfil their conditions...this time round, we had to first fulfil those conditions to obtain assistance. It was only Sri Lanka that ... -
Kanchana Wijesekera: Fuel Price Formula
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/21/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Fuel Cost Breakdown - Data for the formula from actual cost incurred during the immediate past 28 days period from 28th February - 28th March 2023….Price difference (between the formula base price per litre ... -
දුම්රියේදි සොයා ගැණුනු බිළිඳා: රූපවාහිනී මාධ්ය වාර්තා කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03-13)On 11 March 2023, Rupavahini, TV Derana, Sirasa, Swarnawahini, Hiru TV, Siyatha TV reported on a baby who was found on a train. This post identifies different ways in which the TV channels reported the incident, focusing ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the month of March 2023, several articles published in Divaina, Lankadeepa, Aruna, Irida Mawbima, Irida Aruna, Irida Lankadeepa, and in TV channels such as TV Derana contained the ethical violations such as using ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-01)During the month January 2023, several articles published in Ada, Mawbima and Irida Mawbima, didn't contain person-first language when referring to persons with disabilities. Some of the terms that were used were "ශ්රවණාබාධිත" ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වයන් අනවශ්ය ලෙස ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(2023-01)During the month of January, 2023, Sinhala press published two stories highlighting the ethnicity of the individual. In the Point Pedro, Jaffna Police Officer related incident Dinamina and Mawbima highlighted the ethnicity ... -
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 -
නිරවද්ය සහ විශ්වසනීය මූලාශ්ර නොමැති වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)In March 2023, articles published in Aruna, Mawbima, Divaina and Dinamina contained articles with questionable sources. Aruna, Divaina and Mawbima published news regarding the appointment of the Inspector General of Police ... -
එකම පුවතක්, විවිධාකාර සිරස්තල!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03-29)On 29 March 2023, Dinamina, Aruna, Divaina, Mawbima, Ada, Lankadeepa reported on the price reduction of fuel. This post includes the headlines which were included in each newspaper.