Minister Gunawardana: Partly lost on Sathosa losses
[Sathosa] was an institution that did not incur losses before 2015. Sathosa has lost 20 billion rupees during the last five years (2015 – 2019).
Daily News | March 10, 2021
Posted on: 9 April, 2021
Partly True
MP Champika Ranawaka: right on Sri Lanka being high on fats and sugar (imports)
Compared to 2019, sugar imports have increased by 38% and oil and fat imports have increased by 237%.
Parliament Hansard | February 11, 2021
Posted on: 1 April, 2021
True
MP Cabraal: Not without fault on debt default claims
As of now (February 2021), the total ISBs outstanding is USD 14 billion, which is only 16.7 percent of Sri Lanka’s total debt. None of the other creditors who hold 83.3 percent of Sri Lanka’s debt seem to show any sign of concern or stress about its repayment ability. We have to repay only around US
Sunday Observer | February 28, 2021
Posted on: 26 March, 2021
Partly True
Prime Minister Rajapaksa: yields correct understanding on export agriculture
The revenue from export agricultural crops stood at Rs. 63,000 million in 2019. Within one year we have been able to increase it to Rs. 73,000 million.
Dinamina | March 3, 2021
Posted on: 19 March, 2021
True
DG Health Services sets up the wrong criteria for community spread of COVID-19
If it is to reach the community transmission level, the positive rate would have drastically spiraled parallel to the number of PCR tests. At present, Sri Lanka is not experiencing such a situation.
Daily Mirror | February 10, 2021
Posted on: 12 March, 2021
False
Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva: Teases out the problem in tea exports
Tea export volumes in 2020 declined by 9.2% or 27 million kilos to 265.5 million kilos from the previous year, whilst in value terms, the performance was down by Rs. 10.4 billion or 4.3% to Rs. 230.1 billion from 2019... The latter is despite Free-on-Board (FOB) unit value of tea rising to its highe
Daily FT | February 9, 2021
Posted on: 4 March, 2021
True
MP Eran Wickramaratne correctly flags foreign outflow from stocks
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…
Lanka Business Online | January 18, 2021
Posted on: 25 February, 2021
True
MP Yapa covers forest cover correctly
Sri Lanka's forest cover is only 29.2 percent.
Lankadeepa | December 9, 2020
Posted on: 5 February, 2021
True
State Minister Cabraal: right on reserves with reservations
We had USD 8.2 billion in reserves… When the good governance government handed us the government, there was only USD 7.6 billion in reserves.
Mawbima | January 7, 2021
Posted on: 27 January, 2021
True
Money printing: MP Champika Ranawaka right on the money
Rs. 130 billion has been printed from November 1 to December 1
Aruna | November 12, 2020
Posted on: 21 January, 2021
True