Suriname votes in parliamentary elections Sunday that will ... The smallest country in South America, and the only one with Dutch as its official language, is battling high debt, rampant inflation, ...

PARAMARIBO: Voting began today in Surinamese parliamentary elections that will determine who will harness giant oil wealth to ...

Suriname: Walk into a government office here and you will be greeted in Dutch, the official language. But in a reflection of the astonishing diversity of this South American nation, Surinamese ...

Between one-half to two-thirds of the first settlers in Suriname and the islands of Curacao and Aruba were Portuguese Jews, mostly from the Netherlands. Today the languages spoken by the ...

Suriname is one of the most ethnically diverse ... 163,821 sq km Population: 632,638 Languages: Dutch, Sranan Tongo, plus regional languages Parliament elected former police chief Chandrikapersad ...