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President Santokhi: “SRD 1,2 miljard voor sociaal programma 2023”

President Santokhi: “SRD 1,2 miljard voor sociaal programma 2023”

President Chandrikapersad Santokhi heeft in het parlement benadrukt dat er in 2023 meer financiële armslag zal zijn voor het uitvoeren van het sociaal beleid van de regering. “In het regeerakkoord 2020 – 2025 en het Herstelprogramma is het sociaal vangnet opgenomen. Het heeft als doel ervoor te zorgen dat de meest kwetsbare groepen, maar ook de gemiddelde burger niet in een uitzichtloze situatie…

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South American Presidents sign Brasilia Consensus

After the Summit of South American leaders in Brasilia, the 11 attending presidents reached a consensus on cooperation and integration in the region.

Hosted by Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, Alberto Fernández (Argentina); Gustavo Petro (Colombia); Luis Arce Catacora (Bolivia), Gabriel Boric Font (Chile), Mario Abdo Benítez (Paraguay), Luis Lacalle Pou (Uruguay), Guillermo Lasso (Ecuador); Mohamed Irfaan Ali (Guyana); Chan Santokhi (Suriname), and Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela) approved the so-called Brasilia Consensus, as follows:

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PRESIDENT DI SURINAM CHAN SANTOKHI Y FIRST LADY A YEGA ARUBA

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Lawyers representing Trinidad and Tobago-based political analyst Derek Ramsamooj have written a letter to the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), indicating that their client intends to challenge the conduct of the State of Suriname “both regionally and internationally if necessary,” after his detention in the Dutch-speaking CARICOM country in 2020.

In a letter of May 15, 2024 to the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat and a copy to the Attorney General in Suriname and the Barbados-based Office of Trade Negotiations, the law firm Justin Phelps wrote about “the politically controlled persecution” of their client in Suriname “which brought serious violations of international law.”

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), noted that Ramsamooj’s departure from Suriname after a work visit in early 2020 was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that two days before he was expected to leave Suriname, he was detained at his hotel and told that he had been placed as a witness on a “no-fly” list in connection with fraud allegedly committed “by the previous government.”

The lawyers said their client, who has been advising political parties across the region for more than 25 years, “was questioned about the work he had done for the previous administration” and “then detained for 18 days without access to a court or counsel, and another 57 days without charge after access to a counsel was allowed.”

The lawyers said the “political persecution” of their client by the current government led by “Chan Santokhi, a former police chief and Minister of Justice, entailed serious violations” of their client’s fundamental human rights and international law.

“He has been denied counsel, good medical treatment, access to the courts and a fair and impartial judicial tribunal. He was forced to sign documents in the Dutch language (which he does not understand), was subjected to long-term detention without being brought to court or accused, was detained in circumstances that were even unsuitable for animals and subjected to long-term interrogations without the provision of basic human facilities such as food, medicine and sleep.

The letter notes that the ‘acts attributable to the State of Suriname involve inventing allegations’ against their client, ‘motivated by the fact that he had worked for a rival political party’.

The lawyers claim that the “authorities in Suriname have been in possession of evidence for more than two years” that “prove their client’s innocence without any doubt and expose the allegations as completely artificial and unfounded”.

The law firm said those documents were produced by Ramsamooj “immediately after his initial detention, that is, before he was sued.

“It is clear that the gross violations of international law committed to my client are motivated by the desire to use the criminal trial in Suriname to promote the political agenda of the Santokhi regime,” the letter said.

In the four-page letter, it was noted that ‘the undeniable influence of politics in this case is even more alarming because of the structural flaws that exist within the constitutional framework in Suriname’.

The letter also notes that the “legal system in Suriname is innately flawed,” and refers several times to a 2021 report on governance in Suriname, prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in which “the judicial infrastructure in Suriname has been carefully considered.

“That report noted that the judiciary had little budgetary independence and that budgets for courts, prosecutors, police and prisons were under the control of the Department of Justice and Police.

“In short, the State of Suriname has a tradition of political control over the judiciary and the IDB has found that the intent,” according to the letter, adding, “there is therefore an independent and objective basis for the conclusion that, as the subject of a politically motivated persecution, it is impossible for (their) client to get a fair and impartial process in Suriname.”

The lawyers recalled that in 1997, CARICOM leaders at their summit adopted the Civil Society Charter, which claims to grant basic rights to Caribbean citizens.

But they said the facts of their client’s case “show that the criminalization of political differences can still take place within the Caribbean, despite the conditions of that Charter.

“In today’s international context, the deeds of the State of Suriname can only be described as the deeds of a rogue state that deals with primitive “mantle and dagger” politics and the persecution of political rivals to control the outcome of elections.”

The lawyers said their client “has medical evidence that his treatment in Suriname has led to an irreversible deterioration of his health.

“He had a stroke in Suriname that was not diagnosed. As I tried to explain above, it is impossible for him to get a fair trial in Suriname. His regional good reputation has been put at risk. In short, the unlawful action of the State of Suriname threatens to lead to the destruction of all facets of my client’s life.”

The lawyers request the CARICOM Secretariat to provide the “with a list and copies of all Community documents containing the policy direction(s) for the Community established and provided by the Conference of Heads of Government pursuant to Article 12(2) of the Revised Chaguaramas Convention.

Ramsamooj, 62, who has both a Trinidad and Tobago and a British passport, was detained in Paramaribo in October 2020 and was not allowed to leave the country until September 2022. He suffers from a range of medical problems, including diabetes, hypertension and severe coronary heart disease.”

A presiding judge had ordered the authorities in Suriname to return his passports, noting that Ramsamooj had at all times shown the willingness to support a fair trial and had consistently declared that he wanted to purify his name through the legal means.

The analyst, who has worked in several Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, Guyana, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Kitts and Nevis, was told by the Surinamese police on October 6, 2020 that they only wanted a statement in support of an investigation into the activities at the Surinamese Postspaarbank (SPSB).

Ramsamooj had conducted customer surveys for the SPSB, as well as surveys among bank employees, in addition to conducting two country risk assessments of Suriname in his capacity as analyst and researcher. The activities were paid for by the financial institution.

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Suriname, almeno 15 i morti in crollo miniera: lutto nazionale

Le autorità del Suriname hanno dichiarato due giorni di lutto nazionale, con il bilancio del crollo in una miniera d’oro irregolare salito a 15 morti.     L’incidente è avvenuto lunedì in un sito dove persone stavano “cercando l’oro in una sorta di tunnel improvvisato di notevole profondità”, ha spiegato il presidente Chan Santokhi all’Assemblea nazionale. Secondo i residenti, da 20 a 30 minatori…

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TotalÉnergies va lancer un gros projet pétrolier au Suriname

TotalÉnergies va lancer un nouveau grand projet pétrolier, au Suriname. Le coût estimé : 9 milliards de dollars, pour récupérer 200 000 barils par jour. La décision finale d’investissement devrait être prise « fin 2024 », a annoncé le 13 septembre le PDG de la compagnie, Patrick Pouyanné, qui s’est rendu à Paramaribo, capitale du pays sud-américain. Après une rencontre avec le président surinamien Chan Santokhi, Patrick Pouyanné a déclaré que « les études de développement du bloc 58 que nous lançons aujourd’hui (...)

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Protestors gathered in Paramaribo, Suriname, on Friday to protest President Chan Santokhi's alleged attempt to postpone the South American nation's 2025 general election.

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Saturday, March 4, 2023

Canadians Fume as Migrants Surge at Their Border (NYT) Hélène Gravel’s house sits on Roxham Road near Canada’s most famous illegal border crossing, used by migrants leaving the United States to seek asylum up north. She has watched with increasing frustration as a bitter winter has failed to stanch record inflows and as New York City even began buying bus tickets for migrants headed her way. Though the numbers of migrants at the southern border of the United States are far higher, the numbers entering Canada are also surging. Nearly 40,000 migrants crossed unlawfully into the country last year—more than double the number in 2019—and the number arriving monthly has spiked recently, including almost 5,000 people in January. Shielded by geography, strict immigration policies favoring the educated and skilled, and its single border with the United States, Canada is now being forced to deal with an issue that has long bedeviled other wealthy Western nations: mass illegal border crossings by land. Using the kind of anti-migrant language rarely heard in Canada, opposition politicians are calling on the government to deploy the police to shut down the Roxham Road crossing and said that Quebec, the province absorbing many of the undocumented migrants, “is not an all-inclusive” vacation “package.”

California’s snow-stranded residents need food, plows, help (AP) Olivia Duke said she’s been trapped in her home in the snow-plastered mountains east of Los Angeles for so long that by Thursday the only food she had left was oatmeal. Snow plows have created a wall of ice between her driveway and the road in the San Bernardino Mountains, and there are at least 5 feet (1.5 meters) of snow weighing on her roof. While her power has been restored, she only has half a gallon of gas left for her generator in case it goes out again. “California is not used to this. We don’t have this kind of snow,” said Duke, a corporate recruiter who lives in the community of Cedarpines Park. “I thought I was prepared. But not for this kind of Godzilla bomb of snow. This is something you couldn’t possibly really have prepared for.” With Southern California’s mountain communities under a snow emergency, residents are grappling with power outages, roof collapses and lack of baby formula and medicine. Many have been trapped in their homes for a week, their cars buried in snow.

Plan to Wait a Long Time for Your Passport (Lifehacker) If your summer plans include a trip abroad, now is the time to apply for your passport, as wait times are on the rise. The Washington Post reports that routine processing is currently estimated to take anywhere from eight to 11 weeks compared to six to nine weeks last month, while expedited applications are taking five to seven weeks (versus three to five last month). That’s from the time the State Department actually receives your application, so tack on at least a few days for the mail to arrive. (The online renewal pilot program was recently suspended and is expected to relaunch later this year.)

Suriname’s debt crisis (Foreign Policy) Suriname, a nation of around 600,000 people on the northeastern coast of South America, rarely earns public comment from U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. But when anti-government protesters rioted through the capital city of Paramaribo on Feb. 17—storming the country’s legislature—Guterres issued a call for restraint. High costs of living exacerbated by government efforts to address a sovereign debt crisis are driving the unrest in Suriname. The country has defaulted on its foreign debt three times since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the administration of President Chan Santokhi agreed to remove subsidies for fuel and electricity as part of a December 2021 loan program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Now, households are feeling the pinch. “A hungry mob is an angry mob,” Suriname anthropologist Maggie Schmeitz wrote of the riots in the Stabroek News.

ECB confronts a cold reality: companies are cashing in on inflation (Reuters) Huddled in a retreat in a remote Arctic village, European Central Bank policymakers faced up last week to some cold hard facts: companies are profiting from high inflation while workers and consumers foot the bill. The prevailing macroeconomic narrative over the past nine months has been that sharp increases in prices for everything from energy to food to computer chips were ramping up costs for companies in the 20 countries that make up the euro zone. The European Central Bank (ECB) responded by raising interest rates by the most in four decades to cool demand, arguing it faced the risk that higher consumer prices would push up wages and create an inflation spiral. But a slightly different picture has emerged. Data articulated in more than two dozen slides presented to the 26 policymakers showed that company profit margins have been increasing rather than shrinking. The idea that companies have been raising prices in excess of their costs at the expense of consumers and wage earners is likely to anger the general public.

Leaving for Argentina (Washington Post) The young couple was determined to leave Russia. Alex Slepenkov, 36, knew he could be forced to join the military and fight in a war he had tried to protest. He and his wife, Natasha Slepenkova, 30, feared the country would turn into North Korea, closing its borders to the world. After they learned in September they were expecting their first child, they began looking up alternatives. The couple settled on a destination about as far from Moscow as possible, with a culture and language vastly different from their own. Argentina, unlike many countries, still allowed Russians to enter. And it’s a country that grants citizenship to children born on its soil—allowing the baby’s parents to apply, too. For Russians, an Argentine passport is something of a golden ticket, granting visa-free access to more than 170 countries. Authorities in Argentina say Russian women are taking advantage of its comparatively open immigration policy by arriving, giving birth, applying for passports and leaving. More than 22,200 Russians have arrived in Argentina in the past 14 months. In January alone, 4,523 entered, more than four times the number in January 2022, before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Brain Drain (Rest of World) Belarus, the Russian ally that in any writeup is invariably described as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” has been hemorrhaging talented and educated workers amid its political problems and the war in Ukraine. Since 2020, based on official stats about 120,000 Belarusians have left the country, with other estimates putting the true number closer to 200,000 to 300,000, a fairly sizable chunk of the 9.3 million population. The brain drain is particularly acute in IT, where of the 60,000 to 100,000 workers in the field in 2020, something like 20,000 workers have left the country by last June. The expats have set up shop in countries like Lithuania and Georgia.

Trains reportedly on same track for 12 minutes before crash in Greece (Washington Post) Before two trains collided explosively Tuesday—resulting in Greece’s deadliest-ever rail crash, killing at least 57—they had been on the same tracks for 12 minutes, according to information given to Greek news media. There was no technical or human intervention to avert the disaster. As emergency workers on Thursday continued to pick through the charred forward-most carriages, many Greeks were already turning their focus to the causes of the crash, and to a rail system that had long been in worrisome shape. Though the collision of the passenger train and a freight train had elements of human error—with a station manager arrested and accused of negligence—various officials, as well as a rail union, also connected the incident to a broader set of rail infrastructure problems plaguing a country that still bears the bruises of last decade’s financial crisis. Greece’s transport minister, who resigned immediately after the crash, said that the country’s rail system “doesn’t befit the 21st century.”

Years of warnings and inaction in Turkish city destroyed by earthquakes (Washington Post) The warnings had been coming for years: This city was unprepared for a powerful earthquake. Thousands of buildings were at risk. Again and again, over at least a decade, engineers, architects and planners had raised concerns about buildings that were shoddily constructed, built before inspection standards were tightened or erected on unsteady agricultural land in Adiyaman—a southern city of more than 290,000 people that sits along one of the world’s most active fault lines. But by the time the ground began to shake on Feb. 6, local and national authorities had done little to protect people who lived in some of the city’s most vulnerable structures, residents and engineers said—despite evidence that disaster relief officials were keenly aware of the danger. More than 6,000 people were killed in Adiyaman province, the government has said, most in the city itself. More than 1,200 buildings collapsed. An additional 3,000 to 4,000 buildings—or more than 10 percent of the city’s stock—were “heavily damaged,” Suleyman Kilinc, Adiyaman’s mayor, told The Washington Post.

Chinese leader Xi embarks on ‘intensive’ overhaul as he cements power (Washington Post) Chinese leader Xi Jinping will oversee an “intensive” and “wide-ranging” government overhaul at a landmark political meeting beginning Sunday that will usher in a new generation of officials close to Xi and cement his control as he begins his second decade in power. China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), is expected to approve a “reform plan” that expands the party’s role in the technology sector and in the private sector, as well as reforming financial regulation and national security. The changes come at a time of deep economic uncertainty at home after years of restrictive covid policies paralyzed the economy and slowed growth to its lowest levels since the 1970s, and increased hostility outside as China’s relationship with the United States reaches new lows.

With West Bank in turmoil, new Palestinian militants emerge (AP) The stuttering blasts of M-16s shattered the quiet in a West Bank village, surrounded by barley fields and olive groves. Young Palestinian men in Jaba once wanted to farm, residents say, but now, more and more want to fight. Last week, dozens of them, wearing balaclavas and brandishing rifles with photos of their dead comrades plastered on the clips, burst into a school playground—showcasing Jaba’s new militant group and paying tribute to its founder and another gunman who were killed in an Israeli military raid last month. Similar scenes are playing out across the West Bank. From the northern Jenin refugee camp to the southern city of Hebron, small groups of disillusioned young Palestinians are taking up guns against Israel’s open-ended occupation, defying Palestinian political leaders whom they scorn as collaborators with Israel. In near-daily arrest raids over the past year, Israel has sought to crush the fledgling militias, leading to a surge of deaths and unrest unseen in nearly two decades.

Is the future of computing biological? (Ars Technica) As technology gets ever-more efficient and powerful, scientists have turned in some weird directions to keep progress marching forward. In the world of computers, things have taken a turn towards the biological. As the human brain is still one of the most powerful computers we know, scientists have begun testing brain organoids—essentially miniature brains cultivated in laboratories, which might one day evolve into powerful, efficient biocomputers. Why mimic human brains instead of developing the next supercomputer? “The brain is still unmatched by modern computers,” said one of the authors of a recent report on the future of biocomputer development. “Frontier, the latest supercomputer in Kentucky, is a $600 million, 6,800-square-feet installation. Only in June of last year, it exceeded for the first time the computational capacity of a single human brain—but using a million times more energy.”

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Reuters Canada: Protesters storm Suriname's parliament as anti-austerity rally turns chaotic

PARAMARIBO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Dozens of protesters forced their way into Suriname's parliament as hundreds more rampaged through the capital Paramaribo on Friday, clashing with police as demonstrations against the government descended into chaos.

Thousands took to the streets in initially peaceful demonstrations against government austerity measures, including the elimination of subsidies, against a backdrop of high inflation.

But the protests turned ugly when demonstrators throwing rocks and bottles at police stormed parliament's grounds, with some making their way into the building before being forced back, a Reuters witness said. Police fired tear gas in return.

Others started fires and looted shops, many of which had closed as a precaution amid the unrest.

The government of President Chan Santokhi condemned the violence, saying in a statement it had set up a task force to track down those responsible for attacking parliament.

Santokhi's office urged citizens to avoid downtown and busy locations, saying there had been 50 arrests "and this number will continue to rise."

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The U.S embassy in Paramaribo condemned the attack on the National Assembly building and related violence in a statement, calling the incidents an "unacceptable assault on democracy."

Suriname's Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation advised businesses owners to shut their premises on Friday and Saturday, due to safety concerns.

Five business associations advised the community to remain closed until further notice, saying in a statement that "security forces were insufficiently prepared for the escalation" of violence.

Suriname, a former Dutch colony in northern South America with a population of 610,000, reported inflation of 54.6% for 2022.

The protests come in the same week that the smallest party in government left the ruling coalition, citing disagreements over poverty and social policies.

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Manifestantes de Surinam tratan de tomar el Parlamento y saquean comercios

Primera modificación: 17/02/2023 – 22:44Última modificación: 18/02/2023 – 00:51 Paramaribo (Surinam) (AFP) – Varios manifestantes que el viernes protestaban contra el alto coste de vida en Surinam trataron de tomar el Parlamento y saqueron comercios de la capital, Paramaribo, hechos por los que el presidente del país, Chan Santokhi, pidió la detención de los responsables de los…

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Landelijk Woningbouw Programma Fase 1 moet woningnood duurzaam oplossen

Landelijk Woningbouw Programma Fase 1 moet woningnood duurzaam oplossen

Het Landelijk Woningbouw Programma Fase 1 2022-2025 moet het woningnood in Suriname duurzaam oplossen. De algemene doelstellingen van het programma zijn een adequaat en betaalbaar huis en geschikte leefomgeving voor elk Surinaams gezin en ontwikkeling van de gemeenschap. Op zaterdag 17 december 2022 heeft president Chandrikapersad Santokhi het projectbureau en werkgroep voor het landelijk…

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Suriname: Waarschuwing en boete voor TikTok-belediging staatshoofd

In Suriname zijn twee verdachten (32 en 59) opgepakt en veroordeeld die in een TikTok-filmpje president Chan Santokhi hebben beledigd. Een van de twee maakte een TikTok-filmpje toen op het Onafhankelijkheidsplein een kerstboom werd opgetuigd. Santokhi en zijn vrouw werden ‘met ontoelaatbare taal’ uitgescholden. De video ging viraal, Santokhi deed aangifte. De filmer moest het filmpje verwijderen,…

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Minister Charles Cooper Awe nos tabata di bishita na Curaçao International Airport pa risibí e presidente di Sürnam sr. Chan Santokhi

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Suriname

Country in South America

Suriname is a small country on the northeastern coast of South America. It's defined by vast swaths of tropical rainforest, Dutch colonial architecture and a melting-pot culture. On its Atlantic coast is the capital, Paramaribo, where palm gardens grow near Fort Zeelandia, a 17th-century trading post. Paramaribo is also home to Saint Peter and Paul Basilica, a towering wood cathedral consecrated in 1885. 

Paramaribo is the capital and largest city of Suriname,

Presidential Palace of Suriname

The Presidential Palace of Suriname (Dutch: Presidentieel paleis van de Republiek Suriname) is the presidential palace of Suriname in the capital of Paramaribo

Fort Zeelandia (Paramaribo)

Fort Zeelandia is a fortress in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 1640 the French built a wooden fort on the spot which, during British colonial period, was reinforced and became Fort Willoughby. It was taken by the Dutch in 1667 and renamed Fort Zeelandi

Garden of Palms or Palmgardens  is a palm tree landscape garden in Paramaribo, Suriname. 

Arya Diwaker is a Hindu association that built the biggest mandir (Hindu temple) of Suriname. The temple attracts many visitors, both Hindus and non-Hindus, coming from Suriname and from all over the world. It is located in the city centre fields in Paramaribo.

The Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Peter and Paul also called Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral is a wooden Roman Catholic cathedral located in the centre of the capital city of Paramaribo, Suriname.

The Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at Islam Mosque Keizerstraat is the headquarters of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement in Paramaribo in Suriname, the Surinaamse Islamitische Vereniging  The mosque is located in the Keizerstraat, adjacent to the Neveh Shalom Synagogue.

The Neveh Shalom Synagogue (lit. House of Peace) is the only synagogue of the Ashkenazi community in Suriname

De Surinaamsche Bank building in Paramaribo

Central market in Paramaribo

Official language: Dutch

President: Chan Santokhi

Continent: South America

Population: 612,985 (2021) World Bank

Maroon village, along Suriname River, 1955

Indigenous settlement of Suriname dates back to 3,000 BC. The largest tribes were the Arawak, a nomadic coastal tribe that lived from hunting and fishing. They were the first inhabitants in the area. The Carib also settled in the area and conquered the Arawak by using their superior sailing ships. They settled in Galibi (Kupali Yumï, meaning "tree of the forefathers") at the mouth of the Marowijne River. While the larger Arawak and Carib tribes lived along the coast and savanna, smaller groups of indigenous people lived in the inland rainforest, such as the Akurio, Trió, Warrau, and Wayana.

Suriname - Wikipedia

Coat of arms of Suriname