The foreign currency reserves at the Central Bank have dropped with US$ 130 million in the first quarter of 2013. By end 2012 the reserves had crossed the magical US$ 1 billion marker, but now they are at US$ 880 million. The bank reported the drop on its website.
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Enormous traffic jams on the Saramacca Canal Bridge in the van‘t Hogerhuysstraat, will not let up until the end of the year. By then, the new bridge currently under construction, will be completed and cause some relief in the traffic. As of Tuesday, the police no longer allow traffic to cross the...
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Youth Parliament sessions have not been held for almost two months simply because there is no money. This year’s budget has not been approved by the Council of Ministers (RvM) yet. Youth legislator Rajiv Ramsahai of Commewijne wonders why the institution is not prioritized.
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Too many people these days use sirens in traffic, sometimes for no other reason than to simply get right of way. Even police officers abuse their siren. Government security personnel have, through constant use, made this abuse into a rule, and now even private security firms seem to go down that ...
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‘If we don’t take strict measures now, we will have to build high dikes like in neighboring Georgetown or we’d have to evacuate the entire city and move it to Lelydorp or Zanderij.’ Words of concern by the regional branch of the World Wildlife Fund, WWF Guianas, for protection of the mangrove for...
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French Guianese firms are eager to do business in Suriname. Four French businesses presented themselves to possible Surinamese partners in a meeting hosted by the Suriname Investment and Development Firm (IDCS). The theme for the meeting was sustainability.
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Ten months after farming material was received from the People’s Republic of China, farmers have still not received the goods. The grant worth US$ 5 million has been stored somewhere after it had been received with so much enthusiasm. A commission for distributing the material has not been appoin...
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The Central Bank cannot have an untouchable status when inaccuracy, negligence or intentional mistakes on its part lead to mismanagement of the Savings and Stabilization Fund (SSSF). ‘That is not acceptable,’ Rabin Parmessar, chair of the reporting committee, stated in Parliament yesterday at the...
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Today Parliament will commence with debates on the Savings and Stabilization fund (SSSF). The reporting committee thinks it is well-prepared. ‘We’ve talked to every stakeholder,’ Mohamed Abdoel (MC/NDP) tells de Ware Tijd. He is backed by colleague Asiskumar Gajadien (NF/VHP), who says that oppos...
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The government still intends to place the Bigi Pan and Wia Wia wetland areas on the Ramsar List. Back when Suriname became party to the Ramsar Convention in 1985, the Coppename mouth nature reserve was placed on the lists of protected wetlands. The convention is a treaty for the protection of wet...
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A 1974 plan to move hinterland villages to higher ground needs a closer study and implementation, acting Chief of the Okanisi André Mosis tells de Ware Tijd. The plan also called for combining several villages. If the villages are situated on higher ground they can be protected better against flo...
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The Persons of Surinamese Descent Law (PSA) will be adopted before 1 July. Ricardo Panka, Mega Combinatie faction leader, who made the announcement in the Netherlands, received cheers and applause from the Surinamese community. The politician was guest at a meeting of the Collectief Overzee Surin...
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The two aluminum police vessels, donated by Dutch government donated to Suriname 11 years ago, will be auctioned off. The boats then had 30 years of service on the North Sea and were practically wrecks.
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The Stichting Auteursrechten Suriname (Sasur), the copyrights broker, plans to file suit against the government. Minister Edward Belfort of Justice and Police took action last Friday by revoking the organization’s ministerial order. He justified his move by stating that ever since Sasur was found...
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These days Chinese butchers are popping up everywhere. Several residential areas in the Greater Paramaribo area have at least one. Entrepreneurs in the meat sector are worried whether the Asians are sticking to food safety rules. René van Essen, director of the Trade and Industry Association (VSB...
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The Saamaka community has ordered its lawyer at the Inter American Court for Human Rights, Fergus McKay, to request an urgent hearing on compliance with the Saamaka ruling. The request came after plans for expansion of large scale gold mining operations and construction of waterworks in Saamaka l...
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Holiday resorts that placed dams in creeks in the District of Para, should remove these. Excess water caused by incessant rains is blocked by the obstacles, causing floods in areas including Vierkinderen and La Prosperite (Bersaba). District Commissioner Jerry Miranda ordered the immediate remova...
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The price of gold continues its downward spiral. Last Friday the price fell US$22 after a full day of trading to US$ 1,364.70 per troy ounce. At the same time the dollar soared to the highest rate since 2010. Professor Tony Caram explains that as soon as the dollar is in the lift, people shift th...
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Entrepreneurs in Marowijne have not responded at all to the call for relief goods to victims of the flooding in the Cottica area. Suralco is the only company so far that has extended a helping hand.
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Lloyd Kotzebue, permanent secretary Civil Works at the Ministry of Public Works (OW) admits that the Ministry is plagued by a shortage of seasoned project managers to carry out projects.
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Over twenty holiday resorts in the District of Para might soon be closed by the authorities. The resorts have failed to apply for a license to run a holiday resort. Sherwin Pique, official at the Para commissariat says that the resorts have three weeks to respond.
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Minister of Education Shirley Sitaldin and former Taskforce chair Eddy Jozefzoon cannot see eye to eye over the much praised new school books for Education reform. While Jozefzoon accuses the Ministry of failure to carry out the project in the right fashion, Sitaldin blames the formers taskforce ...
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The Surinamese Civil Aviation Authority, Casas, has stepped up inspections on airline company Dutch Antilles Express (DAE) after an earlier similar stance by the Venezuelan authorities. Brian Desouza, Casas director says that something must be wrong otherwise the Venezuelans would not have been o...
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The Carifesta district subcommittees enthusiastically submitted their budgets with the Carifesta ‘Host Country Management Committee’ (HCMC). Humphrey Hasrat coordinator of the sub committees says that many of the plans are too ambitious though, reason why the HCMC has cut many of the budgets.
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Suriname is still a long way off modern technology in traffic, says Inspector Humphrey Naarden, police spokesman in view of World Telecommunication Day, today. This year’s theme ‘ICT and Improving Traffic Safety’ is in line with the United Nation’s vision to pay more attention to traffic safety w...
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The National Coordination Center for Disaster Management (NCCR) is on alert for the villages along the Cottica River. Flooding in several villages necessitated the evacuation of 200 villagers. NCCR director Jerry Slijngard says that although his organization was not involved in the operations sev...
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Society needs to change the way it considers women in politics. Globally, men keep playing a decisive role in politics leaving a place for women in politics up to chance. At the start of the annual conference of Female Legislators of the Americas, Speaker of Parliament Jennifer Geerlings-Simons s...
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