Suriname introduces app to tell high store prices | NOW

Suriname introduces app to tell high store prices |  NOW

In the battle to combat unjustified price increases in supermarkets, Surinamese will be given the opportunity to report irregularities directly via an app from this week. It reported this to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation on Friday. This concerns the prices of the 38 so-called basic goods such as sugar, salt, … Read more

Suriname increases speed of vaccination due to donation of 50,000 vaccines | NOW

Suriname increases speed of vaccination due to donation of 50,000 vaccines |  NOW

Suriname will significantly increase the speed of vaccination in the near future, to an average of fifteen hundred vaccinations per day. This is necessary because the shelf life of 50,000 vaccines will expire at the end of June, confirms director Rakesh Gajadhar Sukul of the Ministry of Health. Since the start of the vaccination campaign, … Read more

Suriname struggles with the start of a vaccination campaign years after the first infection | NOW

Suriname struggles with the start of a vaccination campaign years after the first infection |  NOW

Exactly a year ago, Suriname formally established the first corona infection in the country. According to the Numbers 9,012 people have become infected with the corona virus in the past 365 days and 176 people have died from its consequences. Although the number of infections is now steadily low (fifteen positive tests in the last … Read more

Four Surinamese ministers infected with corona | NOW

Four Surinamese ministers infected with corona |  NOW

After Minister Diana Pokie of Land Policy and Forest Management previously tested positive for the virus, the corona virus was diagnosed at three other ministers on Thursday (local time), writes Star news. These are David Abiamofo from Natural Resources, Reshma Kuldipsingh from Employment and Kenneth Amoksi from Justice. All ministers would have no symptoms, the … Read more