This story, which first appeared on Cari-Bois Environmental News Network, was published with the support of Climate Tracker and The Cropper Foundation’s Caribbean Citizen Journalism Fellowship. A ...

This a great example of kawina music, a form of Surinamese Creole folk music that originated in 1863 after the abolition of slavery. It’s layered with all types of local percussion, including the ...

From the Netherlands to Suriname, pride is swelling at the number of Dutch players in Friday's World Cup quarterfinal who trace their roots to the South American former colony. On a pitch beneath the ...

PARAMARIBO, Surinam — At this country’s largest mosque, a gleaming white structure dominated by four towering minarets, Annette Ayub, a woman of Christian and Hindu parents who practices no religion, ...

A Surinamese group has claimed back the remains of a newborn baby, preserved in formaldehyde and held in a cupboard at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. The remains are amongst a collection of preserved ...

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In 2019, Dési Bouterse, the former president of Suriname, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a military court found him guilty of the executions of 15 dissidents in 1982, a dark incident in the ...