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Bankers in Suriname in anti-money laundering training
At the launch of the training Monday, Glenn Gersie, Director of Monetary and Economic Affairs at the Central Bank, represented Bank Governor Hoefdraad in picturing the scope of the training to the participants. US Ambassador Jay Anania also addressed the audience.
The training will focus on anti-money laundering techniques and methods for identifying and confronting suspicious financial transactions. The ability to prevent and detect money laundering is a highly effective means of identifying criminals and terrorists and the underlying activity from which money is derived.
The training contributes to Suriname’s compliance with Caribbean Financial Task Force recommendations. It also supports the changes to the sectorial framework laid out in the joint Government of Suriname and Inter-American Development Bank Country Strategy for Suriname 2011-2015. Ambassador Anania expressed the willingness of The United States to continue to work with Suriname on a range of law enforcement, rule of law, fiscal transparency, and regional security cooperation.
American embassy presents Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
PARAMARIBO–The American Embassy presents the movie “Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee” on Thursday, November 17, 2011. The two hour HBO movie that narrates what lead to the slaughter of hundreds of Indian men, women and children by US military in the US in 1890, will play at the Eddie Wesselszaal at the Cultural Center Suriname (CCS), Henck Arronstraat in Paramaribo. It is free and open to all public, the embassy announces.
Native American Heritage Month is a celebration of the history, culture and traditions of Native Americans. The celebration originally began in 1916 in New York State when it declared the first “American Indian Day.” On August 3, 1990 President George Bush declared the first National American Indian Heritage Month. The purpose of Native American Heritage Month is to honor and recognize the original peoples of the United States.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee intertwines the perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman, né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull, the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land – the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes, who was one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs.
Throughout June; FOREST FILM FEST in CCS
PARAMARIBO–The US embassy is sponsoring the Forest Film Festival at the Cultural Center Suriname (CCS) throughout the month of June, to celebrate the “International Year of Forests.” Every Thursday audiences can watch between one and three award-winning movies in the auditorium of the Center on Henck Arron Straat in Paramaribo.
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
Program Public Viewings Thursday June 16, 2011 19:00 Amazon Alive: Jungle of the Mind 43 min 20:15 Indian Tiger 50 min Thursday June 23, 2011 19:00 Finding David Douglas 60 min 20:15 Human Planet: Jungles 59 min Thursday June 30, 2011 19:00 Orangutan Island: Cheating Extinction 44 min 19:50 Back to the Roots 40 min 20:50 Wild Russia: Kamchatka 43 min
A word from US Ambassador John Nay
International Year of the Forest
The United Nations Forum on Forests has proclaimed 2011 the International Year of Forests. To commemorate this proclamation and celebrate the forests of both the United States and of Suriname, the Embassy of the United States of America in Paramaribo proudly hosts this Forest Film Festival. Forests provide shelter to over 300 million people around the world, including Suriname, and over 1.6 billion people depend on the forests to earn their living. Our forests provide food for both people and wildlife, and have been the origin for many of today’s modern medicines. At the same time forests continue to play a critical role in ensuring a sustainable water supply. While recognizing all that our forests have and continue to give us, let us also acknowledge that there is much more that we as a people should do – that we must do – to protect our forests. We have raised the awareness, but we have failed to significantly reduce deforestation.
Suriname is in the unique position that its forest is still largely intact. It not only represents thousands of years of history, culture, and religion, but also holds the key to this country’s development and prosperity far into the future. As we reach the crossroad between preserving the past and developing the future let us keep in mind a great Native American proverb that says “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” And as with all things borrowed, let us return it to our children in excellent condition so they too will be able to enjoy the miracles of our forests. We owe it to them.
John R. Nay
U.S. Ambassador
Awardwinning nature films to show at Forest Film Festival at CCS in June
PARAMARIBO–The US embassy is sponsoring the Forest Film Festival at the Cultural Center Center (CCS) throughout the month of June, to celebrate the “International Year of Forests.” Every Thursday audiences can watch between one and three award-winning movies in the auditorium of the Center on Henck Arron Straat in Paramaribo.
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.
US Ambassador John Nay explained that sponsoring the Forest Film Festival provides his embassy with an opportunity to celebrate the forests of both the United States and of Suriname. “Forests provide shelter to over 300 million people around the world, including Suriname, and over 1.6 billion people depend on the forests to earn their living,” the ambassador stated.
He said that forests provide food for both people and wildlife, and have been the origin for many of today’s modern medicines, while at the same time playing a critical role in ensuring a sustainable water supply. “Our forests have and continue to give us, and we must also acknowledge that there is much more that we as a people should do – that we must do – to protect our forests. We have raised the awareness, but we have failed to significantly reduce deforestation,” Nay said.
He said Suriname is in a unique position that its forest is still largely intact, which not only represents thousands of years of history, culture, and religion, but also holds the key to this country’s development and prosperity far into the future. “As we reach the crossroad between preserving the past and developing the future let us keep in mind a great Native American proverb that says “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” And as with all things borrowed, let us return it to our children in excellent condition so they too will be able to enjoy the miracles of our forests. We owe it to them,” said the ambassador.
Read on for the program of the Forest Film Festival. Place: The Cultural Center Suriname.
US Embassy, Media in World Press Freedom Day events
PARAMARIBO–The U.S. Embassy in Paramaribo is going full out this year to commemorate World Press Freedom Day (May 3rd) this year. In a press release issued on Monday May 2nd, the embassy announced an interactive discussion with media around the world on topics related to Press Freedom, an address by Ambassador John R. Nay to students and the media about issues of press freedom, and a paneldiscussion between De Ware Tijd journalist Eliazer Pross and Press Freedom Advocate Mark Bench, Former Executive Director of the World Press Freedom Committee.
“World Press Freedom Day represents an opportunity to commemorate the principles of press freedom,” the embassy stated. “(An opportunity) to evaluate press freedom, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay solemn tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.” The theme for this year’s commemoration is “21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers.”
Parbode mag takes on Wikileaks on Suriname
PARAMARIBO–Popular Suriname opinion magazine Parbode will in its next edition publish Wikileaks cables that expose how the US embassy in Paramaribo thinks of Surinamese internal matters; in a press release announcing the daring move by the monthly, Parbode questions which interests the US embassy serves. “We join German Der Spiegel, American New York Times and British The Guardian newspapers in their opinions that it is not so much about what the memos say, but more about how it’s said,” the release states.
The main article of the magazine that hits stands next Monday features some 540 leaked cables from the US embassy; Parbode hints that the embassy apparently does not hold most Surinamese politicians in high regard.
“Our editorial team has spent quite some time analyzing the cables and it turns out that the US pays close attention to what goes on in Suriname. President Bouterse is unqualified, former President Ronald Venetiaan and politicians Paul Somohardjo of Pertjajah Luhur and Ronny Brunwijk of Abop are negative … Diplomats not only follow what’s reported in the media closely, but the US also maintains regular contact with important people in society. The cables also reveal how American diplomats lobby with the Suriname Government,” the release said.
Founded by secretive Australian Julian Assange, Wikileaks was originally based in Sweden and garnered 1.2 million leaked documents in time for its launch in January 2007. It taps in to the world’s web users’ desire either for justice or revenge on former employers or acquaintances, but its most significant stories have been held up as largely in the public interest.
