SURINAME – Money that is supposed to be given to citizens as child allowance is evidently being used for political activities of the Algemene Bevrijdings- en Ontwikkelings Partij (ABOP) and does not end up in the pockets of the mothers who need it to take care of their children. Sources from the hinterland told Times of Suriname that the so-called purple areas or areas where the people have raised flags of the purple party, NDP, are being passed over and that only villages which are strongholds of the ABOP are receiving child allowance…[+]

SURINAME  – Prison guards reportedly intercepted and confiscated 214 marihuana packets  this week. Paulus Pinas, deputy director of the Offender Care Department at the Ministry of Justice and Police, told Times of Suriname that this is the largest quantity of drugs that has ever been found within the prison system. The marihuana packets were discovered during a search of a prison cell on an inmate. It is suspected that the inmate was planning on selling the marihuana packets to other inmates…[+]

SURINAME – “As long as the voter’s intention is clear, his or her vote must be declared valid. Ballots that have been partially colored or checked off or which have not been colored or crossed clearly will be declared valid as long as it is clear who the voter voted for,” said Arun Hardien, member of the Elections 2015 Management Team. When the staff of the polling station has its doubts regarding the validity of the ballot, they must look at the intention and not only the manner in which the ‘box’ has been colored…[+]

SURINAME  – The coordinator of the V7 bloc, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, on Wednesday sent an open letter to President Desi Bouterse, demanding answers to a number of issues. “The questions that I asked the president are about alleged corruption, favoritism and mismanagement,” said  Santokhi. Santokhi wants the president to explain why the brother of Minister Ashwin Adhin was appointed director of a subsidiary of Sail (Suriname American Industries Limited ) and why the decision was made behind closed doors…[+]

SURINAME –Jodhan Mahase (66) also known as  Lall, died during an armed robbery that took place at a dialysis center located in the Commewijne District on Tuesday morning. Four masked robbers who were armed first broke into a firm but it is not clear what was stolen. Then they took the firm’s  security guard by surprise before tying him up. They then went to the dialysis center that is located next to the firm. Mahase who worked as a security guard at the dialysis center was also caught off guard and dragged to the location where the security guard of the firm was…[+]

SURINAME – Marlon Oosterling, head of the Water Supply Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources (NH), on Tuesday told Times of Suriname that an illegal water pipe was discovered at the house of  MP Shailendra Girjasingh in the Commewijne District. He pointed out that the illegal water pipe  was removed and that Girjasingh’s connection to the water network was shut off.  According to Oosterling,  installing a water pipe with a diameter of a quarter inch is acceptable but that a water pipe with a diameter of 1.5 inches was discovered at Girjasingh’s residence…[+]

SURINAME – Statistics from the Ministry of Interior Affairs (BIZA) indicate that 23% of the nation’s voters still have to receive their voter notification cards. Reports indicate that a group of voters has deliberately refused to accept their voter notification cards when the canvassers show up at their homes. August Boldewijn who is an expert in the science of public / social administration told Times of Suriname that voters are morally but not legally obligated to accept their voter notification card. If it were a legal obligation, sanctions could be taken against those who have refused to accept their voter notification card...[+]

SURINAME  – The starting signal for the Construction of a VOS school district and an agricultural center in the Marowijne District was given on Monday. The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture  (MINOWC) issued a press release, indicating that Education Minister Ashwin Adhin and the minister of Agriculture, Stock Breeding and Fisheries (LVV), Soeresh Algoe, unveiled the nameplate which announces the construction projects…[+]

SURINAME – A shopkeeper from Munder on Monday told Times of Suriname that SRD 500,000, jewels valued at $50,000 and watches valued at € 10,000 were stolen from his bedroom on Sunday night. The shopkeeper indicated that the theft took place between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. and that his shop was still open at that time. I was in my shop that night and went to the bedroom a few times to check if my mobile phone could still be recharged…[+]

SURINAME – Robby Malhoe recently made it clear that the rumors which suggest that he has joined the Progressive Reform Party (VHP) because he was not on the NDP’s list of parliamentary candidates are not true. “I am deeply insulted by these insinuations because I am not a traitor. It is not in my nature!”  On March 15 it was announced that Malhoe would not be on the National Democratic Party’s list of parliamentary candidates during the general elections of 2015. Immediately afterwards rumors that suggested that he had been spotted at the headquarters of the VHP, Stichting de Olifant, were spread. Other rumors suggest that he is helping the VHP with its campaign in the Saramacca District…[+]