PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Suriname has announced that the government of Suriname has received committed expressions of support from a majority of member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the re-election of Ambassador Albert Ramdin of Suriname. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname; The inaugural Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 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 (CCYD) by the CARICOM leaders. read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- The excellent bilateral relations uniting Suriname and Cuba were highlighted by the Foreign Minister of that South American country, Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk. She told Granma news the ties between the two countries were characterized by "solidarity, mutual respect, and cooperation". read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- “Despite our satisfaction for the opening of our embassy in Havana, we can not forget our sorrow for what is happening in Haiti and we send our condolences to the Government and people of that sister nation,” said Louise Irene Kraag-Keteldijk, Foreign Minister of Suriname. read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- 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. Cabrisas highlighted the excellent relations existing between Cuba and the South American nation. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana is set to soon see increased bandwidth capacity as a new fiber optic cable is being landed here from Suriname and is expected to increase the internet speed by some 3,000 times says Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company, Joseph Singh. read more...

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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. His daughter, Joan Ferrier, told Radio Nederland Wereldomroep that her father died in his sleep and was found dead Monday morning. read more...

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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. No casualties were reported but a woman sustained a fractured leg. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname (Reuters) -- Police and troops on Christmas Day put down a riot and looting rampage in Albina, a Surinamese town bordering French Guiana, in violence which wounded 13 people, a government minister said. The riots were sparked by the death on Thursday of a resident stabbed by a Brazilian suspect. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Suriname’s president Ronald Venetiaan at the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, said it is imperative that countries with a high forest cover and a low deforestation rate, so-called HFLD countries, be provided with unequivocal incentives to maintain their forests. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Parliaments from Aruba, Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles vowed to strengthen cooperation in several fields during discussions here in Paramaribo. Delegations from Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles concluded a three-day visit to Suriname over the weekend expressing optimism. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- With the leasing of an Airbus A340-300 Suriname’s national carrier, Surinam Airways, says it’s on the path of expanding and improving services from Suriname to the Netherlands. In order to facilitate the acquisition of the new aircraft, Surinam Airways, several weeks earlier sold its... read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Before leaving for Copenhagen, Denmark, where he will attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, president Ronald Venetiaan warned that the Surinamese people should not expect him to return with a bag of money as financial compensation. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- A US-based company has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Suriname’s national telephone company Telesur and three company officials for alleged “breach of contract, defamation and tortious interference with business relationships”, claiming US$100 million in damages. read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Suriname’s Health Minister, Celsius Waterberg, praised on Wednesday in Paramaribo the island’s medical scientific development, as well as Cuba’s cooperation with that South American country. While speaking with the Cuban ambassador in the capital of that nation... read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- A witness in the murder trial against Suriname’s former military strongman Desi Bouterse described the ex-dictator as a psychopath for his alleged role in the December 1982 killings of 15 of his political opponents. Meanwhile in the latest twist of events in the ongoing trial... read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- At the resumption on Tuesday of the mass murder trial against former Suriname dictator, Desi Bouterse, the widow of one of the victims gave a chilling account of the condition of her husband’s body at the morgue. A second witness gave evidence that on the day of the murders, Bouterse was present. read more...

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- With the approval of the draft legislation by the Council of Ministers, Suriname moved one step closer to joining the Caricom Arrest Warrant Treaty, a government official has disclosed. This agreement simplifies extradition of wanted suspects between Caricom member states. read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- “Relations between Cuba and Suriname are excellent,” the Surinamese business attaché Ike Desmond Antonius said in Havana. In an interview published on Tuesday by Granma newspaper, the official recalled that both nations established diplomatic relations on March 23, 1979. read more...

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BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries next week to forge a common stand ahead of next month's key climate talks, officials said Friday. The leaders are set to be joined by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has hammered out a joint position. read more...

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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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