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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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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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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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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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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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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Puts Guyana on the map eyesonsuriname Amsterdam January 21 2023 — UK’s British Petroleum has been awarded a contract to market Guyana’s share of oil produced at the Liza Destiny and Liza Unity platforms, reports Oilprice. With 11 billion barrels found to date, Guyana is home to one of the largest oil discoveries over the…
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What does that mean for the digital economy? eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 21 January 2023 — Many cryptocurrency adopters have long known that digital, decentralized finance (DeFi) is going to be significant to the future of money. The rest of the world appears to be catching up. Even legacy institutions have begun offering investors access to crypto…
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Earthquake risks in the Netherlands have locals unwilling to plug the Russia-related energy shortfall. eyesonsuriname/ D Baazil Amsterdam, 20 Jan 2023 — Beneath the windmill-dotted marshlands of the Netherlands lies Europe’s largest natural gas reserve. The sprawling Groningen field has enough untapped capacity to replace, as soon as this winter, much of the fuel   Germany…
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