SIBLINGS: Siblings are the children of the same parents. It is a convenient term meaning brothers and sisters. If you have two brothers and one sister, you have three siblings. SPOUSE: Another convenient term meaning husband or wife.
Bouterseâs father, Desi Bouterse, ruled Suriname after a coup and reclaimed power in 2010. The president, 69, in 1999 was convicted by a Dutch court of involvement in cocaine smuggling. Earlier this year, a Dutch court rejected his third bid to have the conviction overturned. A synagogue and mosque in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Suriname is a country in northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between French Guiana and Guyana. With an area of 163,820 kmÂ² Suriname is about four times the size of the Netherlands, or slightly larger than the U.S. state of Georgia. This page aims to give you a broad overview of Suriname's art, culture, people, environment, geography, history, economy and government.