Where is Paramaribo? eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, Sept.9th 2025– High-ranking leaders of BRICS countries discussed on Monday morning how to expand trade mechanisms between the bloc’s nations during a multiple conference hosted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a move to counter Washington’s tariff increase. “Trade and financial integration between our countries offer a safe…
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Brazil Repositions BRICS as a Global Bridge Amid Rising Tensions O P I N I O N Anton JieSamFoek The 17th BRICS Summit held in Rio de Janeiro this July marked a pivotal moment in global diplomacy, with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attempting to steer the expanding bloc toward constructive multilateralism amid rising…
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The DRC on the rise eyesonsuriname September 8, 2025 — Earlier this month, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a letter of intent with Al Mansour Holding, a Qatari investment group closely connected to the government of Qatar. The package includes a total investment of $21 billion and contains 18 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs)…
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OPINION Anton JieSamFoek The greatest risk facing the news and publishing industry is not AI, subscription ceilings or inflationary pressures, but inaction. News and publishing organisations are at risk of losing market share. Not from each other, but from a smorgasbord of alternative information providers – online creators (on social and media platforms), AI chatbots…
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eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, 1 september 2025 – In een land waar politiek en misdaad vaak botsen, schudt een nieuw schandaal de financiële en justitiële fundamenten van Brazilië door elkaar. Centraal in de storm staat Banco Master – een eens onbekende financiële instelling die nu in de schijnwerpers staat wegens het vermoedelijk witwassen van miljarden voor het…
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Amsterdam, September 1st, 2025 – In a country where politics and crime often collide, a new scandal is shaking Brazil’s financial and judicial foundations. At the center of the storm is Banco Master—a once-obscure financial institution now thrust into the spotlight for allegedly laundering billions for the notorious Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), one of…
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Regional protection promised eyesonsuriname The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Colombian Ministry of National Defense signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost cooperation in aerial surveillance and regional security. The agreement, signed this week in Georgetown by GDF Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier Omar Khan and Commander of the Colombian Aerospace Force General…
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The Southern Common Market extension eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 1 sept 2025–Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his Panamanian colleague José Raúl Mulino met in Brasilia to advance the Central American country’s accession to the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). In addition, the two leaders instructed their teams to begin negotiations aimed at addressing the existing trade…
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As Easy As a Google search. eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 29 aug. 2025– More than a billion people use AI chatbots regularly. ChatGPT has over 700 million weekly users. Gemini and other leading AIs add hundreds of millions more. In my posts, I often focus on the advances that AI is making (for example, in the past few…
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How a Conservative Government Could Transform the Nation’s Resource Strategy eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, August 22nd, 2025 – 🔋 Bolivia, home to the world’s largest lithium reserves, is standing at a pivotal moment. With a new conservative government poised to take power, the country’s long-standing state-centric approach to lithium extraction may be on the verge of a…
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