TotalEnergies Secures Two Noble Drilling Rigs for $753 Million as Suriname Prepares Major Offshore Oil Expansion

  PARAMARIBO – Suriname's offshore oil industry is preparing for a major expansion as TotalEnergies moves toward the start of a large-scale drilling campaign involving two offshore installations contracted from Noble Corporation. The operation forms …

Noble Discoverer Prepares to Leave Curaçao for Major Offshore Drilling Campaign in Suriname

  WILLEMSTAD – The Noble Discoverer, a large offshore drilling rig anchored in Caracasbaai since late September, is preparing for a major assignment off the coast of Suriname, where it is expected to begin drilling operations in early 2027 under a long- …

Guyana, Suriname drive Caribbean export growth as regional trade surges 19.5% – IDB

Dutch Textbooks Give Curaçao’s Resistance History Less Attention Than Indonesia and Suriname, Researchers Find

  WILLEMSTAD – History textbooks produced in the Netherlands frequently give greater attention to colonial resistance in Indonesia and Suriname than to the Caribbean islands of the Kingdom, according to a research report examining how anticolonial freedom …

Suriname acknowledges backlog in the implementation of human rights obligations

GENEVA, Nov 2, CMC -Suriname Monday acknowledge that it still has important human rights obligations that have not been fully met, including the legal recognition of the collective fundamental rights of indigenous and tribal peoples as well as the …

White Mennonites kicked out of Suriname

A view from the top of Brownsberg at the Brokopondo Reservoir in Suriname. Wikimedia Commons/-JvL- Authorities in Suriname have made good on a pledge to expel more than 60 Amish-like white Mennonite farmers from the country, saying they were there …

Ex-Suriname VP Ronnie Brunswijk scores first top-flight goal aged 65

Former Suriname vice president Ronnie Brunswijk has scored his first goal in his country's top flight at the age of 65 after naming himself in the line-up for Inter Moengotapoe. The controversial club owner converted a second-half penalty on Saturday …

Woodcarvers in Suriname face lure of gold mining, logging industries

PIKI SEEI, Suriname -- Standing atop a giant block of wood, 63-year-old Alingo Doekoe bent over and swung a traditional pick, skillfully chiseling away shards of timber. Bit by bit, a board for Adji-boto, a traditional Saamaka game with roots in West …

Suriname’s Saamaka people use satellite technology to defend their rainforest1.

SURINAME government denies involvement in illegal wiretapping activities

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Oct 30, CMC -The Suriname government has dismissed allegations that Office of  the President has sanctioned the wire tapping of persons in the country. “The Office of the President will not be distracted by speculation. Our focus is …