“There are no grounds to recall Raymond Sapoen and Diepakkoemar Chitan”, Nailah van Dijk told Times of Suriname. She has filed a lawsuit against Pertjajah Luhur (PL) on behalf of her clients, Sapoen and Chitan, who want the judge to forbid the PL party from keeping them from doing their job as legislators and to order the PL party to stop recalling them until a ruling has been announced on the matter in a different court. According to Van Dijk, the PL has indicated that the reason for the recall is that the two members have ‘exited, the PL group…[+]

“We will stay here even if you chase us away. We are not going anywhere,” said MP Ronnie Brunswijk from the ABOP party during the special public session of Parliament on Tuesday. MP Brunswijk, chairman of the ABOP, congratulated reelected president Desire Bouterse and the nation’s new vice president, Ashwin Adhin on behalf of his party and indicated that the ABOP will take a constructive stance in Parliament…[+]

““We are going to experience difficult times,” said Desire Bouterse after being reelected president for a second term. President Bouterse predicted a heavy recession and based his prediction of the current state of the global economy. The president even indicated that the recession could have the same magnitude as the one from 1929 which is generally referred to as the Great Depression of 1929 and the Wall Street Crash of 1929. “The shocks of the recession could be cushioned if the preliminary work is done properly,” said the president at a press conference. He referred to the recession of 2008 and to the fact that Suriname experienced the aftershocks but nevertheless managed to achieve an economic growth of 4.5%…[+]