Rudie Kagie and Steven Coutinho Steven Coutinho, director of the Bank of Suriname, made global headlines early this year with his observation that 200 million U.S. dollars had disappeared from his country’s Central Bank cash reserve. The New York Times recently called him a “philosopher-banker who’s shaking up a nation. ‘Money has been stolen from…
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If so: how, why and when? Amsterdam, December 27th 2021– With over 400 million inhabitants and a large sales market, the European Union (EU) is known as an economic superpower. Now that autocratic leaders dominate the world stage and America has finally proven its instability, it is important that the EU also becomes a major…
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By Dennis Lapar Amsterdam, 26 December 2021– In the year In the year of 2021, ‘diaspora capital’ was the word of the year in Suriname. The Surinamese population had drawn hope from the VHP words during the last election campaign. The people have been told that the diaspora from the Netherlands (Surinamese Dutch) will invest…
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An Eyes on Suriname Special Eyesonsuriname listens to scientist, media- and theaterproducers, authors, and philosophers about important contemporary personal and social questions. The Italian-American economist Mariana Mazzucato thinks and reflects over the question how to adjust our capitalist system. Anton Foek Amsterdam, December 12, 2021–We ( sic ) have really big problems: lack of sense of…
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November 29, 2021 In recent days, various Surinamese and Surinamese Dutch have expressed their opinion about the independence of Suriname. Hereby my opinion on the desired cooperation between Suriname and the Netherlands.Kingdom of the Netherlands. From 1954 to 25 November 1975, Suriname, together with the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles, was incorporated into the Kingdom…
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The 2020s are poised to be to energy firms what the 2010s were to utilities—disruptive As revolutionary slogans go, it hardly had the resonance of ¡No pasarán! But when Repsol, a Spanish oil company, said in December it would reduce the net carbon footprint of everything it produces to zero within 30 years, it marked the most powerful…
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Mrs. Karin Refos, director of the healthy lifestyle resort Belasoir in Suriname, talking to eyesonsuriname
Only a swampy coast with a wild hinterland left Spaniards and Portuguese in South America to the Dutch. The smallest country on the continent is still clearly marked by its traces. “Surreyham” was the name Baron Willoughby of Parham called the middle country of the South American Guyanas, for him it was the Garden of…
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United States Geological Survey data shows offshore Guyana-Suriname Basin to have one of the largest untapped oil reserves in South America. As Suriname’s state oil company, Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V. is set to strike big In a world that’s craving more and more energy, oil is often described as ‘liquid gold’. But as depletion of…
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Suriname is a piece of digital artwork by John Holfinger which was uploaded on February 15th, 2015.
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