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The Billion-Dollar Port City Question

Source: Lanka News
Category: Politics
Region: Sri Lanka
Published: October 17, 2026 at 02:38

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Colombo Port City’s overpaid, parachuted technocrats walked into Parliament’s Committee on Public Finance on October 8 peddling a billion-dollar fairy tale. Handpicked to run an autonomous enclave above the law, these state officials boasted of nine land parcels leased for US1.12 billion, alongside another US1 billion in the pipeline. Elementary arithmetic destroys their promotional fiction. […] The post The Billion-Dollar Port City Question appeared first on Lankanews.lk .

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