ECONOMYNEXT — Successive governments, opposition leaders, the religious establishment and the media have failed the victims of Sri Lanka’s there-decade-long war and the people at large, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said. “This is a significant year for Sri…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s financial inclusion and stability as well as monetary policy transmission would be improved with better financial literacy, Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said. Financially literate persons will make better savings and investment decisions, he said. “They…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has discharged 15,667 Sri Lanka army absentees from their services including those who are overseas after one month general amnesty period through Monday (20), the island nation’s Army said. “At the end of one month amnesty…
ECONOMYNEXT — Sri Lanka can achieve 10 percent growth in 10 years if it dismantles the walls around its economy and starts building bridges instead, particularly to rapidly growing neighbouring regions like South India, opposition MP Harsha de Silva said,…
ECONOMYNEXT – At least 15,000 Sri Lanka tri-forces absentees have come forward to obtain amnesty, responding to a one-month general amnesty call and the Defence Ministry has decided not to extend the period, State Defence Minister Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon said.…
ECONOMYNEXT — Former President and leader of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Mahinda Rajapaksa has seemingly upped the ante on his anti-privatisation rhetoric, claiming that a majority of his party are opposed to the “sale of national assets”,…
ECONOMYNEXT – Indian tourists will be able to pay for their purchases in Sri Lanka through their mobile phones using QR codes after a tie up between Lanka Pay and India’s PhonePe, officials said. With India being the top source…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is planning to send a high-level mission on the instructions of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, to discuss the repatriation of ex-soldiers who have been hired by Russian mercenary companies as well as the injured, a minister said.…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has to open both traded and non-traded sectors to competition, in order to boost productivity and drive prices down, Murtaza Jafferjee, Chairman of Advocata Institute, a Colombo-based think tank said. An unsolicited deal given to India’s…
ECONOMYNEXT — The faction of crisis-hit Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) led by Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has held a round of talks with members of MP Nimal Lanza’s ‘New Alliance’ on joining forces. The meeting took place…
