Elections in Suriname gives information on election and election results in Suriname.

" Such people now circulate around the state power ", said Venetiaan, former president of Suriname.

The first president of Suriname, Johan Ferrier, lived in Oegstgeest at the time of his death.

He was also twice vice president of Suriname.

* Ronald Venetiaan, former president of Suriname

It is now possible to travel overland to Suriname by taking the ferry on the Guyana side at Moleson Creek and crossing the Corentyne River over to Suriname at South Drain.

The Jules Wijdenbosch Bridge over the Suriname River near Paramaribo.

The Coppename Bridge over the Coppename River near Boskamp, Suriname | Boskamp.

Meanwhile tensions with Suriname were seriously strained by a dispute over their shared maritime border after Guyana had allowed oil-prospectors license to explore the areas.

Britain took over most of the Dutch colonies, with the exception of Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ), Suriname ( which they had captured in May 1804 ), the Dutch Antilles and the trading post at Deshima in Japan.

The treaty allowed the English to keep factual possession of New Netherland ( renamed New York, after James ), while the Dutch kept control over Pulau Run and the valuable sugar plantations of Suriname which they had conquered in 1667.

Using this term for Suriname is problematic, however, as historically Suriname was only one of many Dutch colonies in the Guianas, others being Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and Pomeroon, which after being taken over by the United Kingdom in 1814, were united into British Guiana in 1831.

While referring to post-1814 governors of Suriname as governors of Dutch Guiana seems harmless, it is problematic doing the same for the pre-1814 governors, as that would imply that they had jurisdiction over the other Dutch colonies in the Guianas, which they had not.

In 1674 the fort and New Orange was turned back over to the British in the Treaty of Westminster ( 1674 ) which ended the war ( the Dutch got Suriname ).

According to a company press release dated June 29, 2007, Popeyes is the second-largest " quick-service chicken restaurant group, measured by number of units ", with more than 1, 800 restaurants in more than 40 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and over 21 countries worldwide including Turkey, Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, Iraq, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname, Mexico, Trinidad, Honduras, Vietnam, Panama, Peru, and Costa Rica.

Image: Bailey-Coppename River. jpg | Bailey bridge over the Coppename river, Bitagron, Suriname

The treaty allowed the Dutch to retain control over the valuable sugar plantations and factories on the coast of Suriname which had been secured by Abraham Crijnssen earlier in 1667.

He has conducted fieldwork for over 30 years on three continents and in more than 20 countries in mainly tropical locations, notably Brazil, Suriname and Madagascar.

The tribunal that defined the maritime boundary between Suriname and Guyana in 2007 confirmed Surinamese sovereignty over the full width of the Courantyne River.

The main reason tourists visit Galibi is to see the turtles, which come from all over the world ( including places as distant as Costa Rica and Australia ) to lay their eggs in Suriname.

Under the Treaty of Breda ( 1667 ), New Netherland was ceded to England in exchange for the English settlements in Suriname, which had been conquered by Dutch forces earlier that year.

There are plans to extend these rights to all of South America under a Union of South American Nations, and it already extends them ( since 2006 ) to every South American country except Guyana and Suriname.

In October 2002, Alcoa and BHP Billiton signed a letter of intent as the basis for new joint ventures between the two companies, in which Alcoa will take part for 55 % in all bauxite mining activities in West Suriname.

Suriname also claims an area in Guyana between New ( Upper Courantyne ) and Courantyne / Koetari Rivers ( all headwaters of the Courantyne ).

In many Dutch speaking areas, such as Flanders and Suriname, the pronunciation is used at all times.

Examples include India (" cleft " between its Hindu majority and large Muslim minority ), Ukraine (" cleft " between its Eastern Rite Catholic-dominated western section and its Orthodox-dominated east ), France ( cleft between Sub-Saharan African, in the case of French Guiana ; and the West ), Benin, Chad, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo ( all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ), Guyana and Suriname ( cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African ), China ( cleft between Sinic, Buddhist, in the case of Tibet ; and the West, in the case of Hong Kong and Macau ), and the Philippines ( cleft between Islam, in the case of Mindanao ; Sinic, and the West ).

After his inauguration, Bouterse immediately honoured all nine still living conspirators, who together with Bouterse were involved in the violent 1980 Surinamese coup d ' état, with the Grand Cordon of the Honorary Order of the Yellow Star, the highest honour of Suriname.

This led internationally to great controversy, since all nine are accused of involvement in the December murders of 1982, when 15 prominent young Surinamese men were tortured and murdered because they criticized the then military dictatorship in Suriname.

* June 7 – With its crew knowingly attempting to land using an inappropriate navigation signal and ignoring alarms warning them of an impending crash, Surinam Airways Flight 764, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 Super 62, crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport at Paramaribo, Suriname, killing 176 of the 187 people on board and injuring all 11 survivors.

Through 2008, eleven States had cleared all known mined areas from their territory: Bulgaria, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, FYR Macedonia, Malawi, Suriname, Swaziland, and Tunisia.

The area, and the city of Paramaribo, switched between Dutch and British control until the Treaty of Breda at the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War ceded all of Suriname to the Dutch.

The album was entitled King of Suriname and all of the songs were religious in nature.

Lets Sing & Dance along with King of Suriname remain two of the best selling East Indian albums of all time, even to this day ( Ramdew Chaitoe, 1993 ).

There is no indication at all of anyone except William Byam being Deputy Governor of the settlement, and the only major figure to die en route at sea was Francis, Lord Willoughby, the colonial patent holder for Barbados and " Suriname.

Haiti, Suriname and Guyana are all good examples of this practice.

NASA flew them from Brazil, Canada, India, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, all across the US, and off the USS Croatan ( CVE-25 ).

At the 1922 Fourth Congress of the Comintern, Claude McKay, a Jamaican poet, and Otto Huiswoud, born in Suriname, persuaded the Comintern to set up a multinational Negro Commission that sought to unite all movements of blacks fighting colonialism.

The Maroni is the most extensively studied of all the rivers in Suriname.

Soto ayam is a yellow spicy chicken soup with lontong or nasi empit or ketupat ( all compressed rice that is then cut into small cakes ) and / or vermicelli or noodles, commonly found in Indonesia, Singapore, and Suriname.

* Amazonian-Andean breed: Include Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, Venezuela and parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and all north of Brazil.

* Suriname celebrates its Independence Day on November 25.

Suriname elected a new government in May 2000, but until it was replaced, the Wijdenbosch government continued its loose fiscal and monetary policies.

Reflecting its status as a major bauxite producer, Suriname is a member of the International Bauxite Association.

Suriname is represented in Barbados through its embassy in Port of Spain, ( Trinidad and Tobago ).

The Netherlands is also home to a significant Hindu minority, mostly made up of migrants who came from former colony Suriname after its independence.

On 11 November 1975, Bouterse returned to Suriname because he wanted to help build up the Surinamese army ( Bouterse returned to Suriname exactly two weeks before the country received its independence from the Netherlands ).

The remaining colony, Surinam, became the only Dutch Guiana, and remained under Dutch control until its independence as Suriname in 1975.

The islands also share a passion for kaseko, a genre of Surinamese music ; Suriname and its neighbors Guyana and French Guiana share folk and popular styles that are connected enough to the Antilles and other Caribbean islands that both countries are studied in the broader context of Antillean or Caribbean music.

In spite of its extensive range, it is very rare in most areas except in Suriname ; it was first identified by scientists as fossils in Brazilian caves and believed by them to be extinct.

It later returned to the Dutch as Nieuw-Amsterdam, later called New York, had been traded for Suriname with the British Empire and it was given its present name in 1667.

Coronie, as with most of Suriname, relies mostly upon agriculture for both its income and its food supply.

In 1957 DSB formally gave up its right to issue notes to the newly-formed Central Bank of Suriname.

The disease first appeared in Suriname, then made its way to the Caribbean, and, by the 1920s, to Honduras, the world's largest producer of bananas at the time.

Alioko is also a very popular form of religious music that developed through different cultures and made its way to Suriname.

In 1958, East Indian music finally made its debut on the recording industry with the release of an album of devotional songs, by Ramdew Chaitoe of Suriname.

Under the name Curaçao, the team played its first international game in 1934 ( against Suriname, which was then still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well ) and continued to use the name Curaçao until the qualifications for the World Championships of 1958, although the name of the area had changed from " Territory of Curaçao " to " Netherlands Antilles " in 1948.

Since their escape from slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries, Saramakas have lived along the upper Suriname River and its tributaries, the Gaánlío and the Pikílío.

The Dutch West India company was abolished in 1791, and its colonies in Suriname and the Caribbean brought under the direct rule of the state.