Suriname News

Chairman of the Caribbean Community , DesirA© Delano Bouterse, President of the Republic of Suriname will lead members of the Bureau of Heads of Government on a two-day mission to Haiti on 13-14 February.

PARAMARIBO - A UN survey of seven Caribbean countries shows that the fear of becoming a crime victim is highest among Surinamese.

PARAMARIBO - Health Minister Celcius Waterberg accused Surinamese medical specialists of obstruction towards their Cuban colleagues, quoting his Justice and Police colleague 'even among the white collars there are criminals'. Waterberg told Parliament that surgery room equipment in AZP has been sabotaged.

PARAMARIBO - The government of Suriname wants to join the regional trade block ALBA, the Miami Herald and the Jamaica Gleaner report in their Monday issue.

"We work well together, but they are different." So say Dutch students about their foreign peers.

PARAMARIBO - Criminals and other suspicious persons on the black list of local and international authorities as well as lost or stolen passports can be uncovered easily at all legal ports of entry.

PARAMARIBO - The driving licence system will be digitized. Persons whose licence expire this year will get a new one in ID-card format.

PARAMARIBO - The commercial sex industry is also benefiting from high gold prices.

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Scientists also unearthed another 45 species during a three-year project where they were helped by tribes who live in villages along the Kutari and Sipaliwini Rivers in Suriname.

PARAMARIBO - "We have absolutely no need to muzzle the media as some claim", President Desi Bouterse reacts to the controversy caused by Suriname's rather high ranking on the press freedom index recently published by Reporters Without Borders .

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC -Health officials have confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever that has even led to the hospitalisation of the Speaker of the country's parliament Jennifer Simons.

Following the lobbying efforts of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation , resolution 16/18 was agreed by the United Nations.

Despite moves to increase wireless network speeds and capacity by mobile operators, South Africans should not expect high-speed mobile broadband anytime soon.

PARAMARIBO - Four out of six patients with a viral condition in Diakonessenhuis have dengue.

PARAMARIBO - Although the Chinese association Kong Ngie Tong Sang is content with last year's results, it calls for a speedy settlement of the legal residence permit for over 1,000 Chinese.

PARAMARIBO - Edward Belfort, deputy director of the Delinquents Care department has submitted a US$ 1.2 million project proposal with the government to fight corruption in prisons.

PARAMARIBO - The influx of Chinese immigrants in the past years was politically and strategically motivated.

PARAMARIBO - The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries has not been able to determine the cause of the recent fish deaths on Coronie's coast.

PARAMARIBO - Indigenous and Marron communities have no idea what Kyoto,A Rio+20 and REDD+ mean.