SURINAME – The Water Supply Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources (NH) on Tuesday signed a deal with contracting firm Baska NV. The contract is aimed at constructing a water distribution network for the three thousand villagers from the villages in Sarakreek and the surrounding areas in the Brokopondo District. All government buildings such as schools and education service homes will also be connected to the water network.  The head of the Water Supply Department, Marlon Oosterling, told Times of Suriname that the objective is to complete the project within three months…[+]

SURINAME – Parents of babies and storekeepers are currently flocking to the wholesaler of Nutrilon infant formula every day because the subsidized infant formula is out of stock at the various distribution centers of the Stichting Regionale Gezondheidzorg (RGD). Parents are flocking to the wholesaler in order to get the infant formula at a wholesale price. This way they can still get it at a lower price because the retailers sell it at a high price…[+]

SURINAME – The District Commissioner of Brokopondo, Yvonne Pinas, who is also the chairwoman of the main voting bureau in Brokopondo, told Times of Suriname that PING is the only political party that has visited her office the many times. According the DC, PING has presented 3 candidates for the District Council (DR) and 1 candidate for Parliament. Meanwhile two of the DR candidates have  indicated that they want to pull out of the race which means that PING currently has only one DR and one Parliamentary candidate. PING founder and chairman, Ramsoender Jhauw, indicated that the party had presented two DR candidates and one Parliamentary candidate…[+]

SURINAME – “The management team of the Ashiana Old Folks’ Home and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Community Housing (Sozavo)  must change their attitude towards the new union which is a member of the Central of  State Employees’ Organizations (CLO),”  said CLO Chairman Ronald Hooghart. Many workers from the morning shift went on strike on Monday.  Hooghart made it clear that “tyhis is just the beginning and that the strike would be intensified if management and Sozavo fail to intervene.”(foto:labourlist.org)…[+]

SURINAME  –  “The silent majority supports  DOE. We have people who neither carry nor wave their flags”, said Carl Breeveld, chairman of the DOE party. Other  political parties prefer to organize huge campaign rallies but DOE  reportedly will not follow their lead. DOE reportedly lacks the funds for that and thinks that it would be wise to spend the money in another way…[+]

SURINAME – The Chinese embassy and the Ministry of Education and Community Development (MINOV) on Monday organized a presentation for students who are going to study in the People’s Republic of China. The presentation was aimed at introducing the university systems of China and explaining how students can apply for a scholarship from the Chinese government…[+]

The 16-year-old boy who was denied access to Suriname by the Military Police at the Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport at Zanderij, was arrested upon his return to his native country Jamaica on Saturday, Jamaican press reports. The Surinamese authorities had received information through regional intelligence, that the boy was possibly planning to join the terrorist movement ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), the Suriname police reports in a press release…[+]

Sunday afternoon an excavator operator discovered a skeleton during cleaning operations on a plot of land in the council area De Nieuwe Grond. He called the police and the owner of the land. All weed was already removed from the land, but in the back there were bushes he also had to remove. It is not known whose skeleton it is, how it got there and if the person died a brutal death…[+]

The printing of polling cards for all voters in Surinam was completed on Monday. Yesterday civil servants at the Central Bureau for Civil Affairs only had to print the polling cards of the council area of Latour and these will be delivered to the District Commissioner’s Office of Paramaribo Southwest, Dorine Brei of the working group Polling Cards tells Times of Suriname…[+]

SURINAME – A bank located in the Wanica District has been swindled out of more than SRD 260,000. The police have reportedly arrested a bank employee. The bank employee swindled the bank out of a huge sum of money with the help of a woman. The woman reportedly brought fake jewels to the bank which she wanted to pawn. The bank employee indicated that the fake jewels were eighteen-carat gold and gave the woman the money.  The swindle started last year. The bank employee and the woman reportedly shared the money…[+]