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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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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