Development for Change eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 11 August 2023 –The energy landscape of the Guyana-Suriname Basin is evolving at a rapid pace, with drilling activity set to intensify in the coming years. Noble Corporation projects the need for “6 to 7 ultra-deepwater (UDW) rigs through 2024, with potential upside from 2025 onwards” in the Basin, the…
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Lula, the president of Brazil, speaks to his minister of Indigenous peoples, Sonia Guajajara, at the Amazon summit. Photograph: Ricardo Stuckert/Brazilian presidency/AFP/Getty Eight South American presidents including Brazil’s Lula say rich countries need to pledge more resources to help protect rainforest Tom Phillips in Belém, Patrick Greenfield and agencies Amazon leaders have called on rich…
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AFPDemonstrators, including indigenous people from Amazon countries, marched in Belém on Tuesday as the summit kicked off By Katy Watson in Belém, Brazil & Christy Cooney in London BBC News The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation. Delegates from the countries are meeting in…
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BBC NEWS INDONESIA Sellers of fried rice, fried noodles, spring rolls, soto, and ice dawet at Saoenah Market, Paramaribo, Suriname. This market is also known as Java Market. Saoenah Market (sometimes written Saoena) in Paramaribo, Suriname, has another name: Java Market. As the name implies, every Sunday the market becomes a meeting place for Javanese…
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Peter M. Woff – eyesonsuriname Since taking office as president of Suriname, president Chandrikapersad Santokhi has failed time after time and again during his foreign state visits, except in his own country. His first state visit to the Netherlands in September 2021 was an unmitigated nightmare, culminating in an angry mob that primitively rejected his…
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¿Qué papel para la participación laboral femenina? En ocasión del lanzamiento de las Perspectivas Económicas de la OCDE, este panel de expertos de alto nivel tuvo como objetivo facilitar el intercambio de opiniones y experiencias entre expertos de América Latina sobre cómo incrementar la participación laboral femenina en América Latina y así reforzar el crecimiento…
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When will those illegal Brazilians in Suriname be arrested?? eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 23 July 2023 Brazilian authorities this week arrested 18 illegal miners or garimpeiros in Yanomami Indigenous Land during the joint operation Ágata Fronteira Norte, according to Defense Ministry sources, it was reported Friday. Military personnel from the Armed Forces, Federal Police officers, and officials from the…
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BELLA II (Building the Europe Link to Latin America and the Caribbean) is co-financed by DG INTPA of the European Commission (EC), through the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation instrument – Global Europe (NDICI), under agreement number 438-964, signed in December 2022. The EC contribution for the 48 months in which the project will be executed, is…
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EU-CELAC context eyesonsuriname / ixchelperez Brussels, Belgium, July 17th 2023– It happens again in Brussels. This European capital will be the hosting city for relevant events in July: It will be the venue of the EU-CELAC Summit of Heads of State and Government (July 17 and 18), the place where the European Union and Latin…
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