Trade Adjustment Programme News Today

Sri Lanka Treasury Bills rates were steady and T- bonds rates were up in moderate trade on Wednesday while the Central Bank’s guidance peg for interbank transactions strengthened by 14 cents, dealers said.

Sri Lankas Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has welcomed key proposals in an interim budget, calling for their implementation and expressing willingness to support the process.

Sri Lankas price control agency has issued sudden command to private manufacturers to control their raw material stocks, ordering them to operate at maximum capacity at the same time in an unusual state intervention.

The Asian Development Bank said it had approved 200 million US dollars in emergency credits for Sri Lanka by re-purposing existing loans which will be used for farming, and income support for the poor and vulnerable, especially women and children.

Sri Lanka has extended its multiple-entry tourist visa up to five years to boost tourism, Tourism Minister Harin Fernando said yesterday. The Minister said that Sri Lanka now offers one-year multiple entry visas. The country also issues single entry visas, with a six-month stay period. The Minister said that the Cabinet of Ministers approved his […]

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce views the interim budget for 2022 delivered by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as Minister of Finance, as a positive step towards rebuilding the macroeconomic framework of the country. The Budget provides an estimate of the expected revenue and expen

Contrary to former Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) lawmaker Ranjan Ramanayake’s claim that he has returned to the apartment where he lived at the time he lost his parliamentary seat in April 2021, he had handed over that house some time back, according to sources. Parliament has since allocated the apartment to Nanayakkara, who did not […]

Galle Face protesters ask for probe in terms of Money Laundering Act By Shamindra Ferdinando The Sarvapaskshika Aragalakaruwo (All-party Agitators) of the Galle Face protest movement has lodged a complaint with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) seeking an investigation into Rohitha Rajapaksa’s ownership of ‘Green Eco Lodge’ hotel situated at Gongalakanda, Kolonna, in Embilipitiya, close […]