Suriname News Archives

This post is also available in: Nederlands: Suriname: Fotografie als kunstvorm Paramaribo SPAN shines the spotlight on Dutch artist Risk Hazekamp, who shares her thoughts on thoughts "on one of the works inspired by her residency in Suriname in 2008."

By Ivan Cairo Caribbean Net News Suriname Correspondent Email: ivan@caribbeannetnews.com PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Law enforcement officials in Suriname here have disclosed that over the past several days a large number of illegal Guyanese nationals were deported to Guyana.

By Ivan Cairo Caribbean Net News Suriname Correspondent Email: ivan@caribbeannetnews.com PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- The Suriname government on Monday pressed for financial compensation for forested countries with low carbon emissions by the global community.

Celebrated Surinamese playwright and theatre director Henk Tjon died in Paramaribo on 18 September, 2009.

OUR journey begins deep inside the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, the world's largest tract of pristine protected rain forest.

15, 1852, Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana [now Suriname] died Aug. 24, 1889, Lynn, Mass., U.S. Main inventor best known for his shoe-lasting machine that mechanically shaped the upper portions of shoes.

Paramaribo SPAN posts images and text from Invisible Men, a new book by Surinamese artist Patricia Kaersenhout.

While Canada waits for the Obama administration's pick for ambassador to arrive, U.S. ambassadors to Benin, Swaziland, the Solomon Islands and Suriname, are working their respective posts.

This post is also available in: Nederlands: Suriname: Over "Someni Tongo" "I think art is exactly and only about this: the need to create and express what is uniquely inside you, and to do so because you have no choice": Chandra van Binnendijk, guest blogging at Paramaribo SPAN , shares her impressions of Dutch artist Arnold Schalks's Someni Tongo ...

Photographer unknown. A Dutch family with a maid, Moengo, 1930. AMSTERDAM.- Around 80 photographs from Surinam and Curacao dating from 1846 to 1973 are on display at the Rijksmuseum .