Following the country’s declaration of bankruptcy recently , Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, reportedly announced his resignation this week not long after Prime Minister Wickremesinghe announced he was stepping down, adding yet another blow to the country’s reputation while the apparel sector looks to assure buyers of its stability.
Cash starved government has partially reversed a hasty decision of ill-conceived national non-scientific experiment in organic agriculture compelling the treasury to pay billions of rupees for organic fertiliser stocks procured from local manufactures last year .
The Joint Apparel Association Forum urged all Party Leaders to urgently expedite the recommendations put forth at the meeting held a short while ago, calling for the resignation of the President and Prime Minister and making way for an all Party Government with elections to be held as early as possible.
Sri Lanka’s five key state owned business enterprises (SOBEs) posted losses amounting to Rs. 931 billion rupees in the first four months of 2022, official data shows, with a collapse of a soft-peg due to aggressive open market operations of the central bank contributing to most losses.
