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Brazil ties up with China after recent US visit and great EU Plans

Brazil ties up with China after recent US visit and great EU Plans

Suriname beware China engages media for influencing our opinion eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 26 january 2023– Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva said Wednesday in Montevideo that he agreed to open up Mercosur and pursue a free trade agreement (FTA) with China. “It is important to open up as much as possible for the business world.…
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Trinidad & Tobago Energy Minister Stuart Young

Trinidad & Tobago Energy Minister Stuart Young proposed a Caribbean energy alliance

eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 25 January 2023–Trinidad & Tobago Energy Minister Stuart Young on Monday proposed a Caribbean energy alliance with neighboring countries Guyana and Suriname that could reshape the region’s energy security. Speaking at a Trinidad and Tobago energy conference that included Guyana President Irfaan Ali. Young said the alliance could bring oil and gas resources…
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Suriname may be able to ride along and profit

Suriname may be able to ride along and profit

Brazil could teach Paramaribo eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 24 january 2023–Brazilian Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin currently acting as President while Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in Argentina for the CELAC meeting, met in Brasilia with the Executive Vice-president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans.  He addressed deepening of bilateral relations, in the framework of the 2007 strategic…
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Health emergency in Parts of Brazil

Indigenous peoples in Danger Again eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 23 January 2023– Brazilian authorities declared a public health emergency in the territories where the native Yanomami community resides in Roraima and set up the Center of Operations for Emergencies in Public Health (COE – Yanomami) reporting directly to the Indigenous Health Department (SESAI). The committee will be…
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CELAC Meeting in Buenos Aires

CELAC Meeting in Buenos Aires

Great Proliferation Chance for Suriname THE COMMUNITY OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN STATES  (CELAC) is an intergovernmental mechanism for dialogue and political agreement, which includes permanently thirty-two countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a regional forum that brings together all of Latin America and the Caribbean countries.  Celac aspires to be a unique…
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Suriname in the Picture

Auction in New York eyesonsuriname Three documents that cleared the way for the British to take New Amsterdam in exchange for Suriname from the Dutch in the 17th century. If you bought the 1664 deed — officially, a charter laying claim to a great deal of land — you would not own Manhattan. If you…
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Brazil on the horizon again

Brazil on the horizon again

eyesonsuriname Ansterdam, 21 January 2023– Private sector investors are preparing to take on the bulk of Brazil’s 500-700 billion reais in sanitation-related investments.  This will be necessary to achieve the goal of expanding water and sewage systems across Brazil by 2033.  The new sanitation legal framework that triggers these investments was recently approved by the…
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Frames of mind

Frames of mind

The first reference charts for the human brain have been completed They could become a useful tool in tracking both healthy and unhealthy ageing antonfoek Amsterdam, January 22nd 2023 — If a doctor wants to know how well a child is growing, he can turn to clinically validated charts that detail precisely how that child compares…
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Suriname and Norway

Suriname and Norway

Norway and Suriname eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, January 21st 2023–In the late 1950s, very few people believed that the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) might conceal rich oil and gas deposits. However, the discovery of gas at Groningen in the Netherlands in 1959 caused people to revise their thinking on the petroleum potential of the North Sea. The Groningen…
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Digital Journalism

Data Journalism in a Digital World

Amsterdam, 21 January 2023– In today’s highly-connected and instantaneous world, we have access to a massive amount of information at our fingertips. Historically, however, this hasn’t always been the case.  Time travel back just 20 years ago to 2002, and you’d notice the vast majority of people were still waiting on the daily paper or…
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