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Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin says that Suriname will open an embassy in Jerusalem.
2022-05-30

Suriname begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using a small number of vaccine doses donated by Barbados.
2021-02-23

Citizens of Suriname head to the polls in the country's latest general election. It is the first election after Suriname's president Dési Bouterse was convicted of murder for the December murders in 1982.
2020-05-25

Suriname reports the country's first death from COVID-19 as confirmed cases rise to 10.
2020-04-3

A national court rules President of Suriname Dési Bouterse guilty of murder. The case addresses the execution of 15 government critics in 1982, following the 1980 Sergeants' Coup led by Bouterse. Six other former military officers are also declared guilty.
2019-11-29

The government of Guyana reports that pirates attacked fishermen off the coast of neighboring Suriname.
2018-05-3

Johan Ferrier, first President of Suriname and the world's oldest living former head of state, dies in the Netherlands at the age of 99.
2010-01-4