While the country was rapidly heading for an unprecedented political, economic and social crisis, then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in the first week of June 2021, received Director of the USAID Sri ...

The Sri Lankan government is looking at alternative financing for a minimum of a dozen government projects hitherto supported by USAID. The initiative comes in light of the recent US government move ...

Of course, if it brings together Russian kleptocrats, Central American autocrats, and the mullahs in Tehran, it sounds like the same kind of foreign policy triumph that the president is seeking in ...

Two weeks ago, the Trump administration announced that it would be making sweeping budgetary cuts to the United States Agency ...

In Sri Lanka, USAID (the United States Agency for International Development) has been a significant player in the country's growth, especially in areas such as education, health, agriculture ...

Under USAID, Bangladesh received 440 million dollars, Pakistan received 231 million dollars, and Sri Lanka received 123 ...

The former Speaker said so when The Island sought his response to criticism of the three-year USAID-Sri Lanka Parliament project launched in late 2016 during the Yahapalana administration. He stressed ...

In an interview with The Island’s Shamindra Ferdinando (‘Parliament approved USAID and other foreign funded projects: Karu J’/February 25, 2025), former UNP MP and Speaker of Parliament during the ...

The recently opened Pekoe Trail, which runs for more than 300km through tea plantations, villages and forests, tells the ...

At least two dozen workers at USAID Sri Lanka are likely to lose their jobs. According to the USAID website, since 1956, US-supported programmes have invested in Sri Lanka, working in sectors such as ...