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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Suriname, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 714 stories have been published about Suriname which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Voters in Suriname to choose government to helm predicted oil boom

Coverage: 7 sources

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Suriname Poised for Oil Wealth Injection as Voters Head to the Polls

Coverage: 8 sources

Besides investing in agriculture, tourism, health, education and green energy, some of the oil money is being paid directly to Surinamese citizens.Tourism · Suriname See the Story

Santokhi Overestimated the Crisis and Himself

There is a chance that Chandrikapersad Santokhi will get a beating from the voters on Sunday. Or they will give him a second chance because in their eyes there is no good alternative. In any case, he has lost a lot of credit because of the way in which he led Suriname through the crisis. He overdid it and also grossly overestimated his own abilities. Text Armand SnijdersWhen Santokhi took office as president in 2020, he was quite popular with th…Paramaribo · Paramaribo Read Article

VHP Concludes Election Campaign in Style

Text Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO – There was no room for more. The grounds of the De Olifant foundation, the headquarters of the ruling party VHP, were ‘orange’ on Friday evening from the thousands of people who had been brought in from all districts or had come to participate in the political ‘last lap’ of their party on their own initiative. There was a lot of swinging to the tunes of Kappalani, who sang the party theme for these elections. The catc…Paramaribo · Paramaribo Read Article

Last Mass Meeting NPS: 'We Are Going to Put an End to Ethnic Politics'

by Valerie Fris PARAMARIBO — “You can’t have a bromki dyari at the gate, but when you arrive in the living room, only one flower counts. This has become very clear in the past five years, while we should not look at ethnicity.” This was stated by the chairman of the National Party Suriname (NPS), Gregory Rusland on Friday at the party’s closing mass meeting in Grun Dyari. He states that his party is going to do away with ethnic politics, but als…Paramaribo · Paramaribo Read Article

Simons: NDP Ready to Govern Country After May 25

Text and image Wilfred Leeuwin PARAMARIBO — During the closing mass meeting of the National Democratic Party (NDP) on Friday, party chair Jennifer Geerlings-Simons called on her supporters to prepare for government responsibility after the elections of 25 May. In her speech, she indicated that the country is facing major challenges, including paying off mounting debts from 2026. “The country needs to be reorganised. A system musu kenki,” Simons …NDP · Paramaribo Read Article

SWM Director Lienga: 'If We Had Had Resources From the Start, This Pace Would Always Have Been Possible'

Text and image Edwien Bodjie PARAMARIBO — Delivery of the SWM booster station in Patamacca, commissioning of the production facility in Cabendadorp, completion of the distribution pipeline in Alkmaar and now also the Suralcoweg. These are just a few of the series of water projects that have been completed in recent weeks. “I understand that people will think that this has to do with the elections. But if we had had resources from the start, this…Para · Para Read Article

Journalists Condemn False Reporting on Opinion Poll

PARAMARIBO — The publication of the so-called Bluedot poll in the morning newspaper Times of Suriname is seriously misleading and undermines one of the foundations of responsible journalism: serving the truth. The newspaper claims to have commissioned the opinion research by the Jamaican research agency Bluedot. This claim is demonstrably incorrect and is strongly contradicted by journalists Ivan Cairo, Nita Ramcharan and Wilfred Leeuwin. The op…Journalism · Paramaribo Read Article