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17 Oct 2019 - 1 - 531
In the above statement, State Minister of Transport & Civil Aviation provides statistics to claim that there has been a large increase in the present government’s budget commitment to free healthcare, and that it is as a significant proportion of state revenue.
10 Oct 2019 - 0 - 925
Minister Bathiudeen claims creditable export performance by citing USD 1.3 billion in export revenue from three sub-sectors. We checked this claim using data available from the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB). Even though export statistics are available for up to 2018, the latest data available for all of the three sub-sectors quoted by the minister is for 2016 — for later years there is no revenue data available for “printing and packag
03 Oct 2019 - 0 - 1483
Minister of Housing, Construction and Cultural Affairs Sajith Premadasa’s statement suggests that the gap in income share between the richest and poorest quintiles in the country is 50% of total household income.
26 Sep 2019 - 2 - 767
In the above statement the MP claims that by passing the Active Liability Management Act the government can: 01.Obtain foreign loans without any annual limit. 02.Borrow any amount outside [the provisions of] the budget.
21 Sep 2019 - 2 - 2947
On 11 July 2019, Mawbima reported MP Rajapaksa making the above statement which claims with specific numbers that starting with 560,000 candidates sitting the G.C.E. (O.L) exam, only 28,000 (that is about 5%) succeed in gaining university entrance.
12 Sep 2019 - 0 - 913
We consulted two sources to verify this claim. (1) The Secretariat for Coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms (SCRM), and (2) Sixth periodic report submitted by Sri Lanka to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
05 Sep 2019 - 0 - 891
In the above statement, the prime minister is making a negative attribution to Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency by citing a fall in export share of GDP by 12 percentage points, from 30% to 18%.
22 Aug 2019 - 0 - 812
On 19 June 2019, the Daily FT newspaper quoted the state minister of finance making the above statement in Parliament. Since the statement does not specify a time period for this claim, FactCheck evaluated it for each year since the change in government in January 2015. The claim can be assessed b
01 Aug 2019 - 0 - 3181
FactCheck investigated the MP’s claim in three ways: through (1) information in the public domain; (2) directly requesting MP Jayakody for his source of information; and (3) publicly inviting verification of this claim on
25 Jul 2019 - 0 - 1020
On 4 June 2019, Divaina reported President Maithripala Sirisena making the following claim: The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) incur losses in the tens of millions [of rupees] per day.
18 Jul 2019 - 0 - 598
On 15 May 2019, Dinamina reported Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara making the following statement: Deaths reported as being due to drowning are about 800 annually.
11 Jul 2019 - 0 - 943
On 28 May 2019, Divaina reported that MP Vijitha Herath made the following claim:
04 Jul 2019 - 1 - 1266
On 22 May 2019, Dinamina reported State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne making the following statement. Sri Lanka’s tourism sector accounts for 5% of gr
27 Jun 2019 - 0 - 1043
On 02 April 2019, Lankadeepa reported that MP Udaya Gammanpila made the following claims in parliament:
20 Jun 2019 - 1 - 922
Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera made the following claims: Foreign reserves were $7.6 billion, equal to four months of imports;
06 Jun 2019 - 0 - 1132
On 28 March 2019, Dinamina reported President Maithripala Sirisena making the following:
30 May 2019 - 1 - 1632
On 04 February 2019, Mawbima quoted the following statement made by Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Rajitha Senaratne: “Within the world healthcare system, the fact that the best health service is provided by Cuba and Sri Lanka has been accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO).” To check this claim, we consulted the WHO’s Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2017 Global Monitoring Report. This report provides an index
23 May 2019 - 0 - 1187
On 10 April 2019, Dinamina reported that Minister of Justice and Prison Reforms Thalatha Athukorale made the following statement: There are close to 22,000 inmates in prisons. Of them, a large number are serving sentences that are less than two years.
16 May 2019 - 0 - 1272
On 27 March 2019, the Daily News reported Minister of Tourism Development, Wildlife and Christian Religious Affairs John Amaratunga making the following claims:
18 Feb 2019 - 6 - 4042
In the nine years I was in power, I increased the GDP per capita of this country by a multiple of three. In that period, the economic growth rate was 7.4%.
14 Feb 2019 - 3 - 2664
11 Feb 2019 - 1 - 1735
On 26 October 2018, the Divaina reported MP Anura Priyadarshana Yapa making the following claim.When a mobile phone user in our country pays Rs. 5,000 [as the mobile phone bill], Rs. 1,600 of it goes towards paying taxes.
07 Feb 2019 - 3 - 3775
31 Jan 2019 - 3 - 6481
28 Jan 2019 - 0 - 3085
24 Jan 2019 - 2 - 4632
01 Jan 2019 - 1 - 6268
Sri Lanka, a pearl in every possible sense - the wildlife, a proud and long history, amazing beaches and of course, us, the people. We are in our own way a nation of achievers, heroes, legends and the ever resilient.
31 Dec 2018 - 0 - 2733
20 Dec 2018 - 1 - 7735
12 Dec 2018 - 1 - 5095
In 1978, when the all-powerful executive presidency was introduced, LSSP stalwart N.M. Perera asked what would happen “if the presidency goes to a mad man”? The manifest limits of due process and absence of checks and balances against the behaviour of the incumbent has raised that pertinent question once again. Sri Lanka has never addressed this constitutional lacuna in full. Tinkering of the Constitution has not helped either.
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