Sri Lanka Politics

Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa Dynasty Is Not as Secure as It Appears

by |15 July 202106 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Economist SINCE WINNING the presidency in a landslide nearly two years ago, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has worried not that he has too many relatives in government, but that he has too few. One of the 72-year-old’s elder brothers,...

SL Lags Behind in Providing Trade Statistics – Verite Research

by |21 September 202024 May 2021|Verité in the News

Taken from - Ceylon Today Sri Lanka lags behind its regional peers in terms of ease of access to trade data, mainly because of Sri Lanka Customs (SLC) restrictive data dissemination policy, states a recent research study by Verite Research....

ව්‍යවස්ථාව: ශ්‍රී ලංකා විධායක ජනපති ක්‍රමය ගැන මහින්ද, මෛත්‍රී, ජීඑල් සහ විමල් එදා සහ අද

by |16 September 202005 October 2020|Verité in the News

උපුටා ගැනීම - බීබීසී සිංහල සේවය 1978 දී ජනාධිපති ජේආර් ජයවර්ධන විසින් නව ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව හඳුන්වා දෙනු ලැබූ අවස්ථාවේ සිට ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය ප්‍රමුඛ සියලු විරුද්ධ පක්ෂ එයට දැඩි විරෝධය පළ කළහ. එය 'ඒකාධිපති ව්‍යවස්ථාවක්' ලෙසින් විග්‍රහ කළ ඔවුහු,...

Some ‘concessional’ loans less favourable than borrowing on markets: Verité

by |14 September 202014 September 2020|Verité in the News

Taken from - The Morning The extent of concessionality in loans is being overestimated, and that in some cases loans that are deemed concessional can be less favourable than borrowing on international financial markets, said Verité Research in a recent...

Change? Let’s start from the Cabinet

by |30 July 202030 July 2020|Verité in the News

Taken from - Daily Mirror As Sri Lanka heads for parliamentary elections on August 5, the final stage of electoral campaigns are now coming to an end. A total of 7452 candidates will contest in the 2020 parliamentary election, with...

Fighting corruption still a voter priority: Survey

by |20 July 202020 July 2020|Verité in the News

Taken from - DailyFT Image courtesy - DailyFT By Uditha Jayasinghe Fighting corruption remains a high priority among voters despite the change of Government and no party making it their main campaign platform ahead of the Parliamentary Election, a well-known...