Deshal de Mel joins Verité Research as a Research Director
    by |24 September 2019|Press Release
    Former Advisor to the Finance Minister and economist Deshal de Mel joined Verité Research as a Research Director this month. Prior to joining Verité, Deshal functioned as the Economic Advisor to Minister of Finance Hon. Minister Mangala Samaraweera. Deshal has...
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    GET REAL with Mahieash Johnney | Episode 08 | #TheNumbersGame
    by |20 September 2019|Interviews & Articles
    Taken from Ada Dearana 24 A discussion on the up coming Presidential election. We ask the question whether in a crowded candidate field can any candidate surpass the required 50% + 1 vote threshold? And in case they cannot then...
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    ස්වාභාවික ආපදා ගැන අවධානයෙන් සිටිය යුත්තේ ඇයි?
    by |12 September 2019|Interviews & Articles
    පළවූයේ - රැස ස්වාභාවික ආපදාවකින් වෙන හානිය ගැන කතා කරන්න ස්වාභාවික ආපදාවක් වෙනකල්ම බලන් ඉන්න අපි පුරුදු වෙලා. නමුත් ගොඩාක් දෙනෙක්ට අමතක කාරණයක් තමයි ස්වාභාවික ආපදාවලට කල්තියාම සූදානම් වෙන්නට වගේම ස්වාභාවික ආපදා තත්ත්වයකදී සහන සලසන්නට අපේ රටේ වැඩපිළිවෙළක් පවතිනවාය කියන...
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    China Harbour Engineering Company to respond to discussion on environmental impact of Port City Project
    by |08 September 2019|Press Release
    Verité Research will be hosting the seminar “Colombo Port City Project: The Environmental Narrative” this week, featuring guest speaker Professor Naazima Kamardeen from the Faculty of Law at the University of Colombo. The seminar will highlight the gap in public...
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    A Look Back at Manthri.lk: Are Politicians keeping their promises?
    by |17 August 2019|Verité in the News
    Image Credits : Groundviews Featured on - Readme.lk By - Mahesh De Andrado We initially took a look at Manthri.lk back in 2014. At the time, it was a platform used to analyze and summarize the work done by each...
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    කුට්ඨනය: බරපතල ලෙස නොදකින බරපතල අපරාදයක්
    by |08 August 2019|Interviews & Articles
    පළවූයේ - රැස සම්පාදනය -  නීතීඥ සුපුන් ජයවර්ධන පහත සිදුවීම් ගැන මොහොතක් සිතන්න. මෙම  සිදුවීම් ත්‍රිත්වය  සලකා බලන විට කුමාරන්, කමල් සහ ජමීලා විවිධ අපරාදවලට වෙන වෙනම  ගොදුරු වී ඇති බව පැහැදිලි ය. නමුත් ඔවුන් තිදෙනාම ගොදුරු වූ තවත් අපරාදයක්...
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    The Thajudeen saga: Murder cover-up trial set to begin in October
    by |22 July 2019|Verité in the News
    Taken from - Sunday Observer By Anurangi Singh and Aanya Wipulasena On the night of May 17, 2012, the Sri Lankan rugby captain was found dead in his burning car near Shalika Hall on Park Road, Colombo 05. The death...
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    Disaster Management in Sri Lanka
    by |22 July 2019|Verité in the News
    A report was released very recently titled, Disaster Management in Sri Lanka: A CASE STUDY OF ADMINISTRATIVE FAILURES. The Economics Research Team of Verité Research compiled this study. The purpose of this piece is to use some of the details...
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    Dead end in Trinco-5 case?
    by |15 July 2019|Verité in the News
    Taken from - Sunday Observer Photo Courtesy - Sunday Observer The dismissal of 13 security forces personnel by the Trincomalee magistrate, could mark the end of the road in terms of achieving justice for the five young boys brutally slain...
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    Disastrous handling of Sri Lanka’s disaster management, probe reveals
    by |12 July 2019|Verité in the News
    Taken from - economynext Photo Courtesy - economynext Since 2005, there have been more disasters in Sri Lanka than meetings of the National Council for Disaster Management (NCDM), the apex body responsible for handling calamities, a new study by Verité...
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