The GSP Plus scheme of the United States comes into force today to benefit 120 countries including Sri Lanka. The US government has announced the resumption of the duty free entry of around 3,400 items to the country until the end of 2020. A Director o…
( April 21, 2018, London, Sri Lanka Guardian ) As the 53 Commonwealth Heads of nations gathered at Buckingham Palace Grand Ballroom Thursday 19 April 2018 evening for the summit of CHOGM in gorgeous sunshine outside, the Queen and Prince Charles of Wal…
ITAK MP Sivamohan also intervened. They reportedly begged at least for two. There was no success with de Silva. The Minister and President were not available. Sri Lanka Guardian learns through a reporter researching the story that an appeal was made to the President’s Secretary Austin Fernando to …
by our London Correspondent. April 22, 2018, London, Sri Lana Guardian H.E. President Maitripala Sirisena attended the Cultural Pageant at the Harrow Leisure Centre on the afternoon of 21 April 2018 organised by the Sri Lanka Education, Cultural and We…
Last month, the 2018 appropriation act for the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs ratified by the US Congress laid down several condition Sri Lanka needed to fulfill before releasing economic assistance funds one of which was…
Torture remained endemic throughout Sri Lanka in 2017, the US has said, highlighting limited progress made by the government in establishing additional transitional justice mechanisms. The US State Department, in a report, mentioned arbitrary or unlawf…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s economic growth will rebound to 4pc this year from a 16-year low in 2017, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said late on Friday, but urged more reforms of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to temper fiscal risks and bolster the nation’s defences to external shocks. After a brief …
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s worker remittances rose 3.2 percent to 579.5 million US dollars in January 2018 from a year earlier, after climbing 8.8 percent in January, official data shows. Remittances for the first two months were up 3.09 percent to 1,308.9 million US dollars from 1,268.4 million US …
ECONOMYNEXT – Visa Inc, an international payments company said Sri Lanka can boost economic growth by moving to cashless transactions. "For instance, Colombo, with a population of 694,000 and GDP (gross domestic product) of 6.5 billion US dollar c…
Then, what has happened to the so-called Harvard input into making Sri Lanka a better economy? Hidden from the public and the glare of media attention, this costly exercise goes on and what is the return. It began with a grand conference in a blitz of …