Suriname News

Painting the walls of a church. Ministering to 40 sick people in the hospital. Bringing hope to residents in a scintillating geriatric home.

By Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO, Suriname; The inaugural Caribbean Community Summit on Youth Development came to a conclusion in Suriname on Saturday with the endorsement of the main recommendations of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development by the CARICOM leaders.

A small dedicated unit is to be established to co-ordinate Caricoma TMs continued assistance to Haiti over the long term, following the catastrophic earthquake which struck that country on January 12.

The first ever Caribbean Community heads of government conference on youth opened on Friday in Paramaribo, Suriname with just three leaders attending.

BRADES, Montserrat -- Jermaine Wade, former CARICOM Youth Ambassador , told the Special Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development that politicians must do more than pay lip service to the youth.

Paramaribo, Jan 29 The first Special Summit on Youth and Development of the Caribbean Community began here Friday focused in concrete solutions to the problems, challenges and threats faced by that population sector in the area.

CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington on Wednesday challenged the youth of the Community to look not merelyA for the benefits that may be coming to themA but also to use their "energy, creativity and skill" to help in building the Community that they want.

It was the Guyana Times which last Saturday informed the nation that the Government of Guyana had sought the removal of Dr Janette Bulkan from the World Bank's Technical Advisory Panel of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, where she had responsibility for reviewing Suriname's Readiness Planning Preparation .

Havana January 14, 2010 Cuba increases aid to Haiti Ana Ivis GalA n GarcA a ON Wednesday morning, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno RodrA guez Parrilla received his counterpart from the Republic of Suriname, Lygia Louise Irene Kraag-Keteldijk, who is on an official visit to our country.

Charlie Chaplin at his satirical best in The Great Dictator Turkey has been infuriated by a diplomatic snub in which its ambassador to Israel was deliberately seated lower than the Israeli deputy foreign minister during a meeting.

Ricardo Cabrisas, Vice-president of the Cuban Council of Ministers, met on Thursday in Havana with the Foreign Minister from Suriname, Louise Irene Kraag-Keteldijk. During the meeting, at the office of the Council of Ministers, Cabrisas highlighted the excellent relations existing between Cuba and the South American nation, and expressed the ...

A chronology of key events: 1498 - Christopher Columbus sights the coast of Suriname.

In the coming days the two countries hope to sign a 400,000 euro financial aid agreement approved in 2008 by the French government to boost up the police and justice cooperation in Suriname.

In the Surinamese embassy in The Hague, hundreds of people have paid their last respects to former President Johan Ferrier, who died aged 99 on Monday.

Police identified a North Miami High School teacher as the man who was reportedly stabbed to death Thursday by an ex-lover seeking revenge.

By Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- For the second time within days, residential areas in Suriname's capital Paramaribo were hit on Monday by tornado-like winds, causing severe damage to homes, cars and power lines, while trees were uprooted.

By Ivan Cairo Caribbean Net News Suriname Correspondent Email: ivan@caribbeannetnews.com PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Johan Ferrier, Suriname's first president after the country gained independence in 1975, has died at his home in the Netherlands at the age of 99.

The unease which some native Surinamers feel about the increasing intrusion of Brazilian miners into their country exploded into serious disorder including arson, assault, rape and robbery in the towns of Albina and Papatam on Christmas Day.

A white van parked in the heart of Times Square with tinted windows, no license plates and a bogus law enforcement placard led the NYPD to briefly evacuate the tourist hot spot and send in a bomb squad on the day before New Year's Eve.

In Paramaribo, Surinam President Ronald Venetiaan has announced that the Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva does not blame the Surinam government for the violence perpetrated against Brazilians in the Surinamese town of Albina.