Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J G1 Canada 1 September 2022 Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN This is in response to Les Bovell on “Many fear wrongly being called racist”,who is Black and immigrated here in 1969, believes that he was treated well in Canada as a “black” immigrant.   “Lucky You.  Congratulations”, I […]

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Manusha Media විදේශ ගත ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට ගුවන්තොටුපොලේදී ගෞරවනීය පිළිගැනීමක් ලබාදෙමින්, විදේශ ගත ශ්‍රමිකයින් සදහාම වෙන්වූ විශේෂ පිවිසුම් ද්වාරය, HOPE GATE නමින් වරාය, නාවික හා ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්‍ය නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා මහතා සහ කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා අතින් අද (01) උදෑසන විවෘත විය. ඒ අනුව කටුනායක ගුවන්තොටුපොලෙන් විදේශ රටකට පිටත්ව යන ශ්‍රමිකයාට […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ගාලුමුවදොර මූලික කරගෙන ඇති වූ අරගලයේ බුද්ධාගම තැනක් නොතිබූ බවත් කතෝලික ආගමට ඊට වඩා තැනක් තිබූ බවත් බලංගොඩ කස්සප හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. එම අරගලයට සම්බන්ධ වූ පළමු භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ තමන් බව ද පැවසූ උන්වහන්සේ කතෝලික පියතුමන්ලාට එක විදිහට සලකමින් භික්ෂූන්ට වෙන විදිහකට සලකන බවත් කියා සිටිති. කතෝලික පල්ලිය විසින් අරගලයට […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror IMF yesterday confirmed that a wealth tax is part of the agreement entered with the Sri Lankan authorities. There was much speculation that the interim budget presented in Parliament this week by President Ranil Wickremesinghe would contain wealth tax as a revenue proposal. But it only contained a proposal to increase the […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror As a traditional friendly neighbour of Sri Lanka and a major shareholder of the International Monetary Fund, China has always been encouraging the IMF and other international financial institutions to continue to play a positive role in supporting Sri Lanka’s response to current difficulties and efforts to ease the debt burden […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s 2023 Budget needs to be consistent with the economic reforms program and macroeconomic framework under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, says Peter Breuer, Chief of the Debt Capital Markets Division, Monetary and Capital Market Department. IMF staff and the Sri Lankan authorities announced this morning that they have reached a […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said that the government was able to reach a staff level agreement this morning to obtain an extended fund facility of USD 2.9 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that will operate for a period of four years. Speaking in Parliament today (01), the Prime Minister also […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says that huge tax cuts in 2019 and extensive money printing to settle debts triggered the worst economic crisis in the history of the country. He also stated that the government of Sri Lanka and the Central Bank had already […]

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Courtesy Adaderana India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said that they have attached three immovable properties worth INR 337 million belonging to Sri Lankan nationals, linked to the banned LTTE in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case. The official said that a bungalow on the ECR and two agricultural lands in Thiruvannamalai district, […]

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