PARIS, France (RSF) -- Reporters Without Borders said it is very worried about the telephone threats that reporter Ivan Cairo of the Paramaribo-based daily De Ware Tijd received on 7 November in connection with several articles about the unexplained disappearance of 90 kg of cocaine from a police station. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- A mother and sister told a military court here on Thursday how their son and brother in December 1982 was dragged from his home by armed soldiers and was a day later among the victims shot and killed in the then military headquarters Fort Zeelandia in Paramaribo. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- While Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch-Ballin has apologized to a Surinamese cabinet minister who was body searched at Schiphol airport, the Surinamese government is lodging a formal complaint and seeking an explanation for the incident, officials here said. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- The government of Suriname is exploring the creation of a drug treatment court for drug-dependent offenders, with support from the Court and Prosecutor’s Office of Ghent, Belgium and the University of Ghent. This is part of an ongoing program called EU-LAC Drug Treatment... read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- The Maritime Authority Suriname (MAS) is taking its services to greater heights. The MAS became one of the few semi‐governmental agencies in Suriname as well as within the Dutch and English-speaking Caribbean to receive ISO 9001:2008 certification. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname (Reuters) -- Canada's Iamgold Corp said its exploration program at Rosebel mine in Suriname was on schedule, and it expects to increase reserves and resources at the South American mine by the year end.The company has over a dozen mines and exploration projects. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- An Antonov-28 passenger aircraft crashed in Suriname on Thursday afternoon close to the border with Brazil, aviation officials here confirmed. Initial reports indicate that the plane operated by the local Blue Wing Airlines encountered difficulties during landing at an airstrip. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Desi Bouterse, Suriname’s former military strongman and leader of the main opposition party NDP, has called for far-reaching changes in the country’s political system and judicial structure. At a political rally celebrating his 64th birthday on Tuesday, the former army commander and... read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- According to Suriname’s president Ronald Venetiaan, the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) has a pivotal role to play in addressing the many challenges facing the region in connection with the implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Health authorities in Suriname have reported a second swine flu-related death, while the number of patients suffering from the influenza AH1N1-virus reached 106. The ministry of Public Health disclosed that a number of test results were received from the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- President Ronald Venetiaan announced in parliament that general elections for a new legislature will be held in Suriname on May 25, 2010. The Head of State made the announcement during the budget presentation for 2010. Venetiaan is in his second consecutive five year term. read more...

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) -- Dutch police have arrested two people at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport for allegedly having hidden three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of cocaine in sandwiches, authorities said Thursday. Inspectors found the drugs last week in 33 sandwiches in the luggage. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Law enforcement officials in Suriname have disclosed that over the past several days a large number of illegal Guyanese nationals were deported to Guyana. Also at least four were detained for various offences ranging from drug trafficking to violation of the Foreign Currency Act. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community has lost, in one week, three major literary figures: Jamaica’s Trevor Rhone, Suriname’s Henk Tjon and Trinidad and Tobago’s Wayne Brown. Rhone and Tjon were both internationally acclaimed theatre artists, Wayne Brown was an acclaimed poet. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- The Suriname government on Monday pressed for financial compensation for forested countries with low carbon emissions by the global community. Nearly 100 world leaders have accepted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s invitation to participate in the historic Summit. read more...

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PARAMARIBO , Suriname -- During an official visit of Suriname's Foreign Minister to Brazil, several agreements were signed to advance cooperations between the two neighbouring countries. Bilateral talks between minister Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk and her Brazilian counterpart Celso Amorim were focussed on... read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Suriname's government paid off the country's longstanding debt to neighbouring Brazil on August 26, the Ministry of Finance has announced. The initial debt of US$60 million, which consisted of loans dating back from the 1980s, over the years have increased to a US$118 million. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Since the first eleven confirmed cases of the A-H1N1 influenza virus, commonly known as swine flu, were reported in June, the number of people in Suriname infected with the disease has reached 67. In an update report the Ministry of Health on Monday noted that from a... read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is committed to support Suriname in its economic and social development, IDB's president Luis Alberto Moreno told journalists on Tuesday in Paramaribo after a meeting with Suriname's Finance Minister, Humphrey Hildenberg. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- During a visit to Suriname, where he met with the Surinamese Minister of Agriculture to discuss the re-opening of the unofficial crossing between the two South American neighbours, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, on Sunday, met with Guyanese residing in Nickerie. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud has confirmed that there is no definitive or conclusive scientific evidence that the ‘Black Sigatoka’ (a yeast disease affecting plantain and banana plants) is in Guyana. This revelation, along with the decision to reopen the border crossing... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Population Reference Bureau's 2009 World Population Data Sheet released recently shows a significant number of nationals in five Caribbean countries live on less than US$2 a day. Those countries are: Haiti, St Lucia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- A court here in Paramaribo heard on Friday that Suriname’s ex-dictator Desi Bouterse ordered the killing of 15 political opponents in December 1982, and had actively participated in the murder of at least two of the victims. In his testimony Friday, Henry Behr told a military court that... read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- A judge in Suriname has slapped six Guyanese nationals with lengthy jail terms for piracy in the country’s territorial waters. Churmandatt Sookdeo, Stevie Latchman and Tony Sookwah were sent to prison for twelve years each while their fellow countrymen Philbert Cush... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caricom Heads of Government, at the just concluded meeting in Georgetown, has accepted the offer by Suriname to host the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA). The Surinamese government tabled the offer two years earlier. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- A documentary depicting Suriname's role in WWII, premiered here during the time the annual "The Back Lot International Film Festival", came in for high praise from the movie go-ers and critics. Film maker Dave Edhard succeeded in crafting a historical picture with the crashes of two US aircraft. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Health authorities in Suriname have confirmed three new cases of H1N1 flu in Suriname, bringing the total to fourteen confirmed cases. Head of the Bureau for Public Health (BOG), Lesley Resida, told local media that the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC), confirmed that. read more...

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KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait -- The just concluded meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has approved new financing for various projects in Turkmenistan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Bangladesh, Lebanon and Suriname, according to a press release from the IsDB. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Authorities in Suriname on Monday confirmed the first cases of swine flu in the country. At a press conference Health Minister Celsius Waterberg disclosed that 11 of 16 volleyball players who last week participated in a tournament in Trinidad and Tobago were tested positive. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- A judge in Suriname on Tuesday acquitted a US-based tribute artiste on charges that she tried to pass herself off as six-time Grammy winner Toni Braxton during a concert in February. Prosecutors were seeking a twelve month jail term with a nine months suspension. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Emilio Limon has become a household name, not only in his native Suriname, but across the Caribbean since taking part in the inaugural Digicel Kick Start Clinics. Limon was one of eight talented young footballers selected by John Barnes to spend a week training at Sunderland AFC in 2008. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- President of the Republic of Surname, Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan cautioned CARICOM Security Ministers and technocrats not to underestimate the threat of armed gangs to the Caribbean Community’s stability. Venetiaan also stressed the need for commitment to the process of cooperation. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Suriname has joined other CARICOM Member States in the use of technology to track the origin of illegal guns with the assistance of the United States. On Wednesday morning, Suriname signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States, which will provide access to eTrace. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin has concluded his three-day working visit to Suriname where he held meetings with President Ronaldo Venetiaan, Foreign Minister Lygia Kraag- Keteldijk and with academia and civil society representatives. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- The young footballers who took part in the third leg of the Digicel Kick Start Clinics at the Franklin Essed Stadium in Suriname, have collectively agreed that the clinic was not only a success for them as individuals, but as a country. Four of the players spoke about their experiences. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Digicel, the largest mobile operator in the Caribbean and new entrant to the Central American market, on Thursday launched its youth football development program, the “Digicel Kick Start Clinics”, for the second year running in Suriname following successful clinics in Jamaica and Barbados. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname; Authorities in Suriname on Tuesday lifted a two-week-old ban on all pork imports, officials here have confirmed. On Monday, April 27 the government issued a ban on all pigs and pork meat imports in response to the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico, USA and other parts of the world. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Caricom’s Council for Community Relations (COFCOR) at its just concluded 12th meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, have endorsed the candidacy of Ambassador Albert Ramdin of Suriname for re-election as Assistant Secretary-General to the Organization of American States (OAS). read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Customs officers and teachers in Suriname have suspended strike actions for one week effective from Tuesday following a request from the country’s president Ronald Venetiaan. Last week the Head of State appointed a mediator to broker a deal between the government and unions. read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- The Fourth Cuba-Suriname Intergovernmental Commission concluded in Havana with the signing of several accords in healthcare, social welfare and agriculture. The agreements signed also include the framework for cooperation in high school and higher education,and sports. read more...

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