Suriname leaders discuss country’s future
by Ivan Cairo
Caribbean Net News Suriname Correspondent
Email: ivan@caribbeannetnews.com
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
PARAMARIBO, Suriname: More than 200 leaders from the public and private sectors
in Suriname will meet to discuss the country’s future.
On Thursday, 12 January, leaders and
officials from government, trade unions, religious organisations, women rights
groups and other non-governmental organisations will attend the National
Leaders Forum here in the capital Paramaribo.
They will review and analyse the concept vision for 2015, which
was drafted in a workshop in November last year. The forum is part of the project ‘Road Map for Public Sector Reform’, which started in
August 2005 in cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank.
One of Suriname’s main development
problems is an expanded public sector where some 33.000 individuals are
employed.
In April 2006 the government will discuss and sanction the final ‘road map’. According to president Ronald Venetiaan, restructuring of the public sector is an ‘absolute urgency’, an issue his government takes very serious. Also restructuring of the private sector is necessary, the Head of State noted at last year’s workshop.
At that conference a concept vision on
Suriname’s development by 2015 was drafted. Top officials argued that in 2015
all public servants should focus on their specific tasks, while these duties
should be focused on national development goals.
The draft-vision also stipulates that by
2015 Suriname should be a safer country for its citizens amidst economic
growth and stability.
Furthermore it is mentioned that, by
then, 75 per cent of the working population has to be employed by the private
sector, while another target is doubling of the gross domestic product and
good cooperation between government and private sector.
National interest should be at the
forefront while party and personal interest comes second.
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