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.
Located in the continent of South America, Suriname covers 156,000 square kilometers of land and 7,820 square kilometers of water, making it the 92nd largest nation in the world with a total area of 163,820 square kilometers. Suriname became an independent state in 1975, after gaining its sovereignty from Spain. The population of Suriname is 560,157 (2012) and the nation has a density of 4 people per square kilometer. The currency of Suriname is the Surinam Dollar (SRD).