Suriname

"High Revenues and Few Jobs." Suriname Has Begun Planning for Oil Money That Has Not Arrived.

President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons opened a three-day summit in Paramaribo on 3 August 2026. Her oil minister warned that concentrating local content on oil and gas drains every other sector, the instrument Guyana has already written into law.

Aug 09, 2026 Theon Alleyne

Analysis

Suriname Pays Its Airline Up to US$2.2 Million a Month. Its Last Approved Accounts Are From 2016.

Suriname pays SLM up to US$2.2 million a month. Its last approved accounts cover 2015/2016, and the transport minister said in June that money owed to the airport and the civil aviation authority had been booked as income.

Aug 08, 2026 Theon Alleyne