SURINAME – Staatsolie (State Oil Company) will reportedly commence with its exploration drilling in Bloc 4, a section off the coast of Saramacca and Wanica, this month. The operation will be coordinated by Paradise Oil Company, a subsidiary of  Staatsolie.  The drilling rig that will be used arrived at the first location on Saturday. The first location is 10 kilometers off the coast. The trip from Trinidad & Tobago lasted 6 days. Staatsolie announced that it would drill nine wells.  Well Services Petroleum Company Limited from  Trinidad which inked a contract in July 2014 will carry out the drilling operations…[+]

SURINAME –Jimmy Hok, chairman of the  Progressieve Arbeiders en Landbouwers Unie (PALU), pointed out that there have not been any formal talks yet with the National Democratic Party (NDP) regarding the formation of a government. He also pointed out that PALU has already had informal talks with other political parties. The PALU chairman indicated that the party will most certainly cooperate with efforts to form a new government if asked to cooperate. According to Hok, the members of PALU still have not discussed which priorities must be set before going to the negotiating table…[+]

Saturday the Foundation Support Recycling Suriname (SuReSur) started placing containers at strategic points in the districts. According to Jeroen Cornelissp, marketing coordinator with SuReSur, the containers will be placed to collect used PET bottles. Through this project the foundation wants to keep all used PET bottles out of the environment…[+]

Yesterday the main voting bureau Paramaribo presented the election results of the constituency of Paramaribo during a public meeting in the Anthony Sports Centre. The process of votes cast did not always run smoothly. In the phase of processing there were various moments with much frustration, confusion and commotion…[+]

The party for Democracy and Development in Unity (DOE) still has doubts about forming a coalition with the National Democratic Party (NDP). The past few days a negotiating committee of DOE had talks with the top of the NDP. These talks will be continued. Regilio Dotsen, member of the negotiating committee and spokesman of DOE, wonders if his party can achieve its goals in a coalition with the NDP…[+]

SURINAME – A family that lives at the corner of the Prinsessestraat and the  Ringweg was robbed on Thursday night. The parents and their son were home when two masked gunmen barged into their home. The masked robbers who were armed with guns threatened the residents and reportedly made off with $ 5,000; jewels and two mobile phones. The woman of the house reportedly told the robbers that there was money in a pair of jeans…[+]

SURINAME – RBC Bank was officially open for business again as of Friday. The employees of this bank ended their strike at the request of the Mediation Council for Suriname. The Mediation Council deemed it necessary form things to return back to normal so that it could mediate between the union and the bank executives under ‘quiet’ circumstances…[+]

SUIRNAME – Floral wreaths were placed at the monument of Baba and Mai to commemorate the 142^nd anniversary of Hindustani  immigration.   The Cultural Union Suriname put together a cultural program aimed at entertaining the audience with songs and dances. India’s ambassador to Suriname, Subashini Murugesan,  pointed out in her speech that the ties between her country, India, and Suriname have been strengthened in the past couple of years. “I am proud of the fact that the historical and friendly ties between our nations that started 142 years ago are the richest inheritance of Suriname…[+]

SURINAME  –  An inmate most likely swallowed a SIM card when he was caught talking on a mobile phone this week.  Paulus Pinas, deputy director at the Justice and Police Ministry’s Offender Care Department, confirmed that the inmate had been caught red-handed. The inmate was busy talking on the phone but it is not clear who he was talking to. When the inmate saw the prison guards, he began to offer resistance…[+]

SURINAME – HIV-positive RL (42) risks going to prison for 3.5 years for having unsafe sex with a 17-year-old girl. The defendant had not told the girl that he is HIV positive.  The police received an anonymous tip that the suspect had ‘met’ the girl on Facebook. She moved in with him and had unsafe sex with him. RL reportedly hit the girl when she refused to have sex with him. The defendant who had spent several years in prison after he had been convicted of rape claims that he never hit the girl…[+]