The Latest Breaking News from Suriname

Thousands of people lined the streets of Suriname's capital Saturday for the funeral procession of Desi Bouterse, who led the country both as a coup leader and elected president before dying as a fugitive from justice.

Still popular with the poor and working class of the South American nation, Bouterse -- who died Tuesday -- rose to power after a 1980 coup as a young sergeant major in the army. He stepped down in 1987 under international pressure in the wake of political violence he was…

All Surinamese adults to receive payment from recently discovered oil and gas reserves – ‘no one will be left behind’

Canada will be without Alphonso Davies when it hosts Suriname in the second leg of the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinals.

The remains of six Native Americans who died after being exhibited in a “human zoo” in Paris in 1892 have now been kept in the archives of a French museum for over a century. A delegation of indigenous Kali’na people from French Guiana and Suriname recently came to Paris to…

Officials say that France’s TotalEnergies and U.S. hydrocarbon company APA Corp. plan to invest $10 billion to extract oil off the coast of Suriname in a historic investment for the South American country

Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon.

Michel Martelly is accused of sponsoring gangs involved in several criminal activities, which also include displacing hundreds of thousands of people

Law enforcement in Turks and Caicos Islands seized more than $2 million in marijuana in interceptions of undocumented Haitian migrants