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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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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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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Suriname, Guyana knocking hard on the door eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, Jan 20th 2023 — Global Analytical Group, Wood Mackenzie said it expects low-key, direct negotiations rather than a proliferation of high-profile licensing rounds as countries look to accelerate their oil and gas potential. But even with that said, WoodMac noted that several licensing rounds are creating quite…
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Countries come and go eyesonsuriname/ roykhemradj Amsterdam, 7 January 2022– The issue in the border issue was that Suriname demanded that the Netherlands make a public statement regarding the territory to be transferred to the new Republic of Suriname in 1975. In the end, this was laid down by the Netherlands in an internal, i.e.…
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eyesonsuriname/ antonfoek Amsterdam, 27 december 2022=Brazil’s President-elect Lula looking up North. Thats where Suriname is located. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will seek to rebuild ties with its South American neighbors and regain a leading role in the fight against climate change under future Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira. The first step in this direction occurred…
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Former Presidential candidate and Senator Simone Tebet, who endorsed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Oct. 30 runoff against the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, has reportedly accepted to become Brazil’s next Planning Ministry, according to press reports published Tuesday in Brasilia. The official announcement is to be made Wednesday. Under Lula, the current Economy Ministry…
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Solar replaces other energy sources eyesonsuriname/af Amsterdam, dec 27 th 2022– Monetary savings, when compared to electricity stemming from other sources, reaches up to 90%, Agencia Brasil reported Sunday about the increasing use of solar energy in South America’s largest country. The data was released by the Brazilian Photovoltaic Solar Energy Association (Absolar), the agency…
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Hess Corporation Acts eyesonsuriname/antonfoek Amsterdam, 22 december 2022–Standard & Poor Global believes bid rounds in Guyana and Suriname will attract further investments that are needed to drive the development of a competitive global oil environment. Given the trail of economic damage left by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, industry players such as Hess Corporation have…
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Guyana leads the pack eyesonsuriname/ antonfoek Amsterdam, dec. 22, 2022–Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Caribbean has seen some lean years and some bountiful years. 2020 was a brutal year due to the Covid-19 pandemic; 2021 was much better, with FDI bouncing back throughout most of the region. Significantly, Guyana, long one of the poorest…
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