Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee Twitter profile

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Namini Wijedasa

1 year

Is bypassing regulatory oversight, including evaluation, the answer to solving medicines shortages that were caused by not only dollar shortages but sheer inefficiency, lethargy, lack of coordination and procrastination? Are walk-in offers by unregistered pharma companies ok?

Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

1 year

Here’s a medical supplies issue I’ve covered for weeks but was too tired to tweet about. It’s related to drugs shortages, procurement and Indian credit. Specialists are repeatedly warning it poses a significant danger to public health.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Ask yourselves one thing, though: If you had the gas, electricity, fuel, the imports, all your fun...would your eyes ever have opened to everything you are railing against now? They existed for decades, across many governments. Is this change permanent? #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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@nimilamalee

2 years

1 family can't do this to 22 million people. #SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

All you protesters, understand one thing, if NOTHING else: There are deep vested interests among you that incite violence. They make you storm houses and offices, target people, damage property. When that call starts, use your heads. Say NO. #SriLankaCrisis #SriLanka

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@nimilamalee

2 years

I endorse this.

Tony de Livera

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2 years

Your thoughts 💭?

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@nimilamalee

2 years

This image is being widely shared without crediting the photographer, who is @TimesOnlineLK 's brilliant AMILA GAMAGE. Don't do this to professionals. It's wrong and it's unethical. If you don't know whose work it is, FIND OUT. #SriLanka #SriLankaProtests #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Johnston Fernando, highways minister: The stories write themselves. They STILL don't get it. #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Something we can do to solve the problem? #SriLankaCrisis #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Shoutout to all the spanking new #SriLanka experts from around the world who know so much more about SriLanka than Sri Lankans. 😍

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

This is Jubilee Post Junction, expanded after @GotabayaR won power so he can travel to work from home. The crowd is huge, angry, spotaneous. #EconomicCrisisLK

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Karunatilaka said as he accepted his prize: "My hope is that in the not too distant future... #SriLanka has understood that these ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work.

Booker Prize 2022: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire

The prestigious book prize is won by Shehan Karunatilaka, for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

The placard @TimesOnlineLK saw and reported on at Rathupaswala years ago: "අවම බලය තුවක්කු නං, උපරිම බලය කුමක්ද?" If minimum force is guns, what is maximum force? #SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

NEVER forget what this country's systems did to Dr Shafi. NEVER forget how a malicious, fantastical story was conjured out of thin air and how 'medical experts' lined up to give it credence. If it happened to him, it will happen to anyone. (1)

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

The main reason @RajapaksaNamal is at every event is clearly to make him seem indisepnsible/future presidential candidate. But what has he achieved compared to how much public funds have been spent on blowing up his image? Why must #SriLanka pay? Who asked for him?

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

When an entire nation is furious together. #SriLankaCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Remember how you thought Gota'd be a great leader because he prettified cities, built walking tracks and put the poor away where you couldn't see them? Is Colombo looking pretty now as you line up with the poor in interminable queues and walk to and from work? #SriLankaCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

A Four Corners investigation, in collaboration with Colombo's @TimesOnlineLK also established that Aspen Medical has been embroiled in an international criminal probe into corruption and money laundering. Airing tonight. #SriLanka

How a politically connected company earned more than $1 billion from the pandemic

Private healthcare company Aspen Medical was given more than $1 billion in government PPE contracts, despite having no experience in large-scale procurement, a Four Corners investigation reveals.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

6 months

The health sector investigation is the single longest one I've done in a while, starting December 2022. Had we kept silent, or given up, many more innocent users of government hospitals would have died or suffered. That is now blatantly clear.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

My god, the #JubileePost protest is HUGE, angry and spontaneous. Shouting, hooting and horns blazing. @GotabayaR @RajapaksaNamal @RealBRajapaksa @an_cabraal #EconomicCrisisLK

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

#SriLanka spent nearly Rs 95 million on the National Independence Day celebrations held this year, a Right to Information (RTI) request revealed. It's the highest amount spent on this event in the last 5 years. Superb RTI story. #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

Govt busted Rs 95M to mark 74th Independence - Ceylon Today

While the country is in the throes of its worst economic crisis with citizens waiting in long queues for hours for essential commodities, the Government has spent nearly Rs 95 million on the 74th...

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

3 years

I have investigated #corruption for years. And I have learned that if a politician opposes a deal, it's usually because it's not the deal he/she is backing. #SriLanka #LNG

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

While we are all raging against past corruption and, hopefully, blaming ourselves over why we did nothing about it, why don't you also read about a real-time case that's happening as we watch? Central Expressway Project Section III or #CEPIII #corruption #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

1 year

No offence to the rest, but THANK YOU to the doctors who studied from state funds (or otherwise) that are choosing to stay back and serve. It's hard for most right now and I know so many people who need good medical/healthcare that are struggling. #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

3 years

I'm among 13 new members of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ( @ICIJorg ), just announced. It's the pinnacle of my journalistic aspirations. There are two members now from #SriLanka , both from @TimesOnlineLK . The other is Iqbal Athas.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Remember post-war #SriLanka , when @PresRajapaksa was in charge and triumphalism ruled? Do you know how much money was quietly being poured into Hambantota at the time? We tried to track it and got nowhere near the complete figure. But here's what we found (1) #PowerCutLK

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Aren't we lucky @Dilith2 and @RajapaksaNamal 's පිස්සු පීකුදු hashtag didn't trend? අපි බබ්බු. #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Massive crowd marching to Parliament, creating fears that the building is targeted next for occupation. #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

If there's no stability NOW, expect economic suffering of epic proportions. There are NO reserves. None. No credit lines. This means no fuel, electricity, money for rice, dhal, anything. Chaos is delaying talks on the economy. #SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

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2 years

They haven't left. They're regrouping. #SriLanka #SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLankaCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

We routinely blame MPs and Ministers for corruption. But I'm shifting my focus now to the corporate sector and public administration: people who know EXACTLY what is going on and allow it to happen, PARTICIPATE, often for personal gain. #SriLanka #corruption

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

#SriLanka 's public sector speaks up, by Damith Wickramasekara via @TimesOnlineLK . Ministry secretaries have proposed to Govt that it should cut down number of ministers, reduce their perks, drastically curb the number of state ministers or scrap the positions...

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

7 months

Did you know there is a replica of the #Alaqsa mosque in the eastern #SriLanka city of Kattankudy, Batticaloa? It welcomes people of all faiths to visit, take photographs and even watch prayers. It was one of the loveliest experiences of my life.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

I'd like to know how the hell all these people got to the stadium. #SriLanka #FuelShortage

Pradhap Arumugam

@PradhapAj

2 years

Atmosphere at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium🔥 #SLvAUS

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

President will resign. If PM also resigns, there will be no cabinet and ministry secretaries will cease to function. Who will replace them? Who will be the unity government? Who will be PM and President to sign papers, run the government? What is the plan? #SriLanka

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Word. #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Was @RajapaksaNamal 's academy holding practicals? #SriLanka

Newsfirst.lk Sri Lanka

@NewsfirstSL

2 years

SLPP local government politician arrested over Bank Heist Details: #lka #SriLanka #SLnews #News1st #SLPP #Politician #BankHeist #Crime #Police

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Namini Wijedasa

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2 years

Not sure you'll read this as I'm not simpering at your "good looks" but @kanchana_wij you seriously need to float a solution to kill the fuel black market. If there isn't enough expertise within the government, please look for it outside. #SriLanka #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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2 years

Tomorrow, my kids have no electricity in school, no electricity at home. Till midnight. #PowerCutLK #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

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2 years

Identical to #Rathupaswela . Only the battletanks are missing. Nearly nine years later, the same tactics. #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

#PowerCutLK #EconomicCrisisLK #SriLanka

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Main weakness of broader "aragalaya" is that it's a protest against shortages, not against nature of govt or governance in #SriLanka . If that's so, there's no call for real and deep change. Rajapaksas and all politicians know that. So they'll just wait it out. #SriLankaCrisis

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Amidst the protests, please remember that what makes it SO hard to dislodge a deeply and widely unpopular president are the provisions of the constitution that will shield and empower similar leaders in future. Tackle this at the root, if/once this one leaves. #SriLanka

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@nimilamalee

2 years

This violence is not the type of protest I witnessed at #JubileePost till at least 8pm when I left after covering it. What triggered this? #JubileePost #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Possible Rajapaksa administration thinking: The rains come, electricity will be back. Continued short-term solutions to fuel/gas issue will reduce/solve scarcities. Economic team will successfully navigate the other issues. President/same cabinet will continue... #SriLanka

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@nimilamalee

2 years

How many?

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

. @TRCSL Chairman, why did you lie? Whose money pays your wages? Suppressing information is one thing. Lying is another. Telco sources also confirmed the letter was sent. If the head of the REGULATORY AUTHORITY lies, what governance? #SriLanka

Citizen Fact Check

@CitizenChecked

2 years

ℹ️ This is not a FALSE letter Here is why 👇 ( Thread ) #SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaprotest #ProtestLK #lka #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

No policy. No plan beyond begging. No change. No foresight. No preparedness. No empathy. No understanding. No sacrifices from the heads of this bizarre administration. Not ONE hint that they care for how people are suffering. #SriLanka

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@nimilamalee

2 years

#SriLanka 's National Audit Office confirms one pvt company exceedingly benefited from the sugar tax cut in Oct 2020-Feb 2021. Pyramid Wilmar (Pvt) Ltd imported 1,222 percent more sugar than usual but did not pass on the advantage. #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

Excessive sugar imports caused dollar drain, consumers did not receive benefit of tax cuts

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

මෙයාට ලයිටුත් නෑ, ගෑසුත් නෑ, තෙලුත් නෑ, ඩොලරුත් නෑ, රැකියාවකුත් නෑ, දැන් ඉන්ටනේටුත් නෑ.

Namal Rajapaksa

@RajapaksaNamal

2 years

I will never condone the blocking of social media. The availability of VPN, just like I’m using now, makes such bans completely useless. I urge the authorities to think more progressively and reconsider this decision. #SocialMediaBanLK #SriLanka #lka

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Namini Wijedasa

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2 years

Private sector companies bidding for renewable energy projects and are still being asked for towering US$-denominated bribes, can you please speak up? #SriLanka #PowerCutLK #SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLankaCrisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Someone got the memo.😁 #SriLankaProtests #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Why do we pay for his SUVs, his fuel, his air fare, his chopper rides, his entertainment when he attends events that are nowhere connected to his portfolio? Why is an entire nation forced to mollycoddle an over-indulged child even in times of unbearable hardship?

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

4 months

The whistleblowers, the CID investigators, the AG's department, the judge, the medical associations that spoke up, others behind the scenes, and the fact that the immunoglobulin caused adverse reactions or nobody would ever have known. That contract would have been pure profit.

Rajeev Menon 🇱🇰

@rajeevmenonsl

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We can at least cling on to some hope that sanity will prevail till we have a few bold journalists like . @nimilamalee . 🙏 More power to you! 💪 . @ICIJorg #lka #SriLanka #investigative #journalist

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2 years

Here is the @TimesOnlineLK teaser on today's 'Four Corners' investigation by ABC. #Aspen ’s first transaction in Sri Lanka was a payment of 1.3mn euros to a British-Virgin Islands company called Sabre Vision Holdings, owned by businessman Nimal Perera.

Leading Australian investigative journalism programme looks at mystery payments to Sri Lankan...

Leading Australian investigative journalism programme looks at mystery payments to Sri Lankan businessman’s account ..

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

. @TwitterSupport please reinstate @aruni_t 's account.

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@nimilamalee

2 years

The video gives clear insight into how @GotabayaR 's administration still thinks--along political lines, them vs opposition, electoral number crunching, no real grasp of just how angry people are. #SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka

"There is no need for President to resign" Minister Johnston speaks - Newswire

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa does not need to resign as he still has the support of the 6.9 million people ofContinue Reading

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

3 years

සවේන්ද්‍ර...ඔයාට ක්‍රිකට් ගහන්න බැරිද?

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

4 months

Why do schools have sports meets, including practices, during the absolute HOTTEST time of the year when even experts say to keep out of the sun? Kids are really exposed. #SriLanka #heatwave

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

3 years

The #PandoraPapers : AWAIT @icij story on how Nirupama Rajapaksa and Thirukumar Nadesan are documented as being actual economic beneficiaries of an offshore company managed by a Singapore trust firm used to purchase luxury residences in London and Sydney, Australia. #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Yes.

Nuzly 🇵🇸 𓂆

@nuzlyhameem

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Dr @ashadevos adresses the protesters at the Occupy Independence Square protest. An absolute pride of the nation! A true daughter of Mother Lanka! ✊🏽🇱🇰❤️ . . #ashadevos #srilanka #lka #colombo #protest #dissent #srilankacrisis #gohomegota2022 #gotagohome #bananarepublic

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

. @kanchana_wij Could you also investigate reports that the police are causing tensions at sheds by getting favoured access to fuel over people who have been waiting in line for hours and hours? If this continues, given the current mood, are you not afraid of widespread violence?

Kanchana Wijesekera

@kanchana_wij

2 years

License of 3 Fuel trucks have been suspended immediately by CEYPETCO and LIOC pending further investigations in to the 3 Incidents reported on social media on fuel transport trucks illegally unloading fuel. I Thank everyone who brought the illegal activities to our notice.

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2 years

Speaker's office confirms that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa did not appoint an Acting President before his departure. Via @TimesOnlineLK

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@nimilamalee

2 years

By regulations made under the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40), the Govt has sought to impose criminal penalties on citizens who make certain posts on social media. Possible that this is #SriLanka 's first attempt to criminalise communication over social media. @samarajiva

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@nimilamalee

1 year

Here’s a medical supplies issue I’ve covered for weeks but was too tired to tweet about. It’s related to drugs shortages, procurement and Indian credit. Specialists are repeatedly warning it poses a significant danger to public health.

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Namini Wijedasa

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3 months

Please don't leave the tap running while you brush your teeth. It's my tap in my house, but water is a shared resource and belongs to everyone. It's costly to purify water and to get it to our houses. When you waste it, you deprive someone else of it. #SriLanka

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3 years

Asking @namalrajapaksa whether he chartered aircraft from @flysrilankan is pertinent, relevant and NECESSARY, considering past history. @TimesOnlineLK investigated the abuse of the national airline during the presidency of his father and found that...(1)

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2 years

Wouldn't it be awesome if people actually read what we journalists spend time and effort producing? @TimesOnlineLK reported @Keheliya_R 's partial bill payment three weeks ago. 🤦 @yoshithaperera

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8 months

There's not enough public outrage about the fact that @Keheliya_R and #SriLanka 's health ministry paid for and distributed among hospitals a human blood-based intravenous medication that we don't know the origin of. Where the hell did the immunoglobulin come from?

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හරිනෙ දැන්? හැමෝම කියවන්නෙ පොහොට්ටුවයි ගම්මනපිලයි ගැන. තෙල් මිලත් නෑ, නැවත් නෑ, වාහනත් නෑ, සරත් වීරසේකරත් නෑ, බඩු මිලත් නෑ, මරනත් නෑ, කොටින්ම කෝවිඩුත් නෑ. #SriLanka #COVID19LK

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@nimilamalee

2 years

හැම උද්ඝෝෂකයෙක්ම තේරුම් ගන්න ඕන දෙයක් තමයි ඔබ අතර සැඟවී සිටින ප්‍රචණ්ඩ හැසිරීම් වලට පොළඹවන අය මතු වෙන්න පුළුවන් බව. ඒ නිසා ගෙවල්, කාර්යාල වටලන්න, පුද්ගලයන් ඉලක්ක කරගන්න, දේපල හානි කරන්න මෙහෙයවීම් ඇති වෙන්න පුළුවන්. ඔවුන් එහෙම පොළඹවන විට ඔලුව පාවිච්චි කරන්න. බැහැ කියන්න #SriLanka

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@nimilamalee

3 years

Bang on all you want about #SriLanka 's superb #vaccination drive but please don't add to the false sense of security that everything is fine because of it. People are planning/having parties and trips, acting like there's no #COVID19 . KIDS ARE'NT VACCINATED. REMEMBER THAT.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

What are you SAYING @alisabrypc ? That Cabinet wasn't told? Cabinet was misled? Nobody read Cabinet papers? Or, for that matter, anything economists were saying since 2020 and before? Didn't even HEAR them? This is a hell of an admission. #SriLanka

Newsfirst.lk Sri Lanka

@NewsfirstSL

2 years

Cabinet was CLUELESS about Economic Collapse - Ali Sabry Details; #lka #SriLanka #SLnews #News #News1st #Sabry #AliSabry #Cabinet #EconomicCrisis #Crisis

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

A president need not "instruct relevant authorities" to carry out "impartial investigations". That's what relevant authorities are supposed to do. This, right here, is what's wrong. Our systems are so politicized that impartial investigations have to be requested like favours.

Sri Lanka Tweet 🇱🇰

@SriLankaTweet

2 years

President has instructed the relevant authorities to carry out an impartial investigation into the Yala incident: Cabinet Spokesperson. #LKA #Yala

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@nimilamalee

2 years

What is happening now is no different to what happened for the last one year: Nothing. That is what got #SriLanka here; that @GotabayaR @PresRajapaksa and @RealBRajapaksa did nothing even when they were advised/warned. Beyond April, there's no money for fuel or essentials.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

5 months

Taxing food, school supplies (including shoes and uniforms) and books is not "debt sustainability" when tens of thousands of people are struggling. It's robbing #SriLanka of its future. The past and present are already stolen. Kids are not attending school.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

3 years

A Sri Lankan was brutally killed by a Pakistani mob. So, Sri Lankans are fighting EACH OTHER. Again. #PriyanthaKumara

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@nimilamalee

2 years

'The Sunday Times' in partnership with @ICIJorg and others are also finalists for a @sopasia award. More power to collaboration! #SriLanka

ICIJ

@ICIJorg

2 years

ICIJ, @washingtonpost , @timesonlinelk and other partners in Asia who worked on the #PandoraPapers have been named finalists for @sopasia 's Carlos Tejada Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

//The company was secretly owned by a middleman, Nimal Perera, notorious for his links to the Rajapaksa family which has dominated Sri Lankan politics for decades.//

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Gonna be a bit of an anticlimax if he isn't on that flight 😁

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@nimilamalee

2 years

කබ්‍රාල් දිගින් දිගටම අපට කියන්නෙ ප්‍රශ්නයක් නෑ කියලනං, ජනාදිපතිව කොහොම අන්දලා ඇද්ද.

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@nimilamalee

1 year

Nathasha Edirisooriya didn't bankrupt an entire "Sinhala Buddhist" nation. #SriLanka

Sri Lanka Tweet 🇱🇰

@SriLankaTweet

1 year

Nathasha Edirisooriya, who made disrespectful remarks on the Buddhist philosophy and culture, arrested by the Police CID. #LKA

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@nimilamalee

1 year

Read how #SriLanka messed up longstanding #Japan relations and the inside story of the LRT cancellation. Unanswered phones, unaddressed questions and just plain bad manners.

Who and what derailed JICA’s LRT project

www.sundaytimes.lk

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

3 years

#SriLanka 's criminal investigation department (CID) has an awful lot of time on its hands to be going after, not just 'fake' news--of which there is plenty--but doctors who speak the truth. THREAD.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

6 months

It's exhausting to keep hearing "you're just a journalist", "you're just a pattara karaya", "who are you, an unknown journalist" so many years down the line. But the common thread is that this always comes from people in authority who depend on patronage/votes for relevance.

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Shafi Shihabdeen speaks for the first time to media via @TimesOnlineLK : "I was completely isolated. Will they keep me or let me go? I didn’t know the system and had no one to ask. I felt helpless.”

‘God and prayers of predominantly Sinhalese patients protected me’

www.sundaytimes.lk

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@nimilamalee

2 years

The beautiful, empty roads of #Hambantota today. Whose money? #SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLankaCrisis

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Good, but also observe the irony in this. The police are meant to be independent. It is years of politicization and subservience that have led to a situation where they have to be TOLD to investigate. That's their JOB. They shouldn't need a prod from attorney general. #SriLanka

DailyMirror

@Dailymirror_SL

2 years

The Attorney General has advised the IGP to expedite the investigation into the Galle Face attack. Meanwhile, the CID has been instructed to probe the incident #SriLanka #lka #GalleFaceProtest #CrisisLK

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Controversial but...ගෝටා ගියාට පස්සේ? #SriLanka #SriLankaProtests

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

1 year

The CEB's "cost-reflective pricing": An independent power producer (IPP) selling electricity to the national grid since the early 2000s had by March 2021 made a net profit of Rs 14.8bn amounting to 855 percent of its initial investment, a Government audit has found.

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@nimilamalee

2 years

Remember how #SriLanka canceled the light rail transit system funded by #Japan International Cooperation Agency because PB Jayasundera said it was "too expensive"? Read the story by @TimesOnlineLK colleague Bandula Sirimanna. #SriLankaEconomicCrisis

Four-lane elevated expressway more costlier than the LRT

www.sundaytimes.lk

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@nimilamalee

2 years

This is what your government is doing behind closed doors, despite this project being horrendously over-priced and non-essential. While Johnston Fernando is personally pushing it at ministry level, it has high backers. #SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka

Highways Ministry speeding ahead with controversial bid to local consortium

www.sundaytimes.lk

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@nimilamalee

1 year

We will write more articles on the many facets of this problem in coming weeks: More and more foreigners on tourist visas are setting up unauthorised businesses on #SriLanka ’s Southern and Eastern coasts, operating freely outside of the tax net.

Parachute tourists carry on booming businesses in the South and East

www.sundaytimes.lk

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@nimilamalee

2 years

There is an eerie disconnect between the dire financial crisis we are in and how life goes on as usual for many in Colombo. Like it will blow in our faces at any moment.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

It was Dr Shihabdeen that delivered former Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) President Anuruddha Padeniya’s second baby via C-section. “Although I am a member of the GMOA, I stood strongly against them when it came to strikes...

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

3 years

A minute's silence for all those who thought මෙයා ආස්වෙලා යයි කියලා. 🙏

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

6 months

I urge those who cared so much about the country last year to read investigations professional journalists do. When you shout "hora, hora" you also need to know HOW they defraud you. This is one of the worst cases I've come across in my career because it was about public health.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

3 years

Did you know that "කන්න නැතත ඉන්න රටක්" works both ways? Try it: "ඉන්න නැතත් කන්න රටක්". You're welcome.

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

Another reminder. #SriLanka

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

2 years

I see we've forgotten appointments Ranil Wickremesinghe made as Prime Minister that contributed towards governance--in addition to his bad relations with Maithripala Sirisena--being an irretrievable mess. Short example: His Cabinet Committee on Economic Management...

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

7 months

So tired of exam postponements in #SriLanka . The deep frustration my nearly 17-year-old daughter feels at having her O/Ls postponed multiple times (now they are scheduled for May 2024) is heartbreaking. Kids here have suffered since the 2019 Easter bombings, then COVID...

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Namini Wijedasa

@nimilamalee

4 months

The decision to discontinue granting free tourist visas to Russians and Ukrainians who have been living in Sri Lanka since Feb 2022 (when the Russia-Ukraine war broke out) was taken after monthslong discussions between ministries and was not a knee-jerk reaction, documents show.

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