Blogging Traveling Suriname

Brownsberg Nature Park, Suriname: December 29-31, 2008
By Derek Kverno (2008) 

Located at an elevation of 500m on a laterite plateau, Brownsberg Nature Park is a rich and complex birding site with a variety of different habitats prime for viewing many Guyanan endemics. It is also rich in mineral wealth, and evidence of past and present mining projects is abundant despite the ample surrounding rainforest. To the east the plateau offers views of the massive Brokopondo Reservoir, which was created in the early 60′s by damming the Suriname River to provide electricity to power the country’s bauxite processing plants. Displacing thousands of people and millions of animals and birds, the reservoir is now a strange and empty watery expanse over ten-thousand square kilometers in size.

Surinamese film premiere in Cuba

Reblogged from Dear Kitty. Some blog:

This video is the first part of the film Wan Pipel.

From Prensa Latina news agency:

Tribute to Surinamese Filmmaker in Cuba

Paramaribo, May 14 - Surinamese filmmaker Pim de la Parra will be honored during the 4th annual Dutch Film Week, scheduled from May 17 to 25 in Havana, where he will travel on Thursday, according to reports in this capital.

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Suriname Radio Stations

List of Radio (and TV) Stations
(links to be added)

• Station: Radio ABC
  FM 101.7, and LiveStream
  Paramaribo, Suriname
  News, Love
• Station: RTV Mustika
  FM 106.5, and LiveStream

  Paramaribo, Suriname World
  Javanese
   
• Station: Rp The Hot one

  FM 89.7, and LiveStream

Birds and history around Paramaribo

Reblogged from Dear Kitty. Some blog:

This is a video about a Rusty-margined flycatcher (Myiozetetes cayanensis).

Suriname, 4 February.

The bus to Paramaribo passes Clevia. In the eighteenth century, Clevia used to be one of the plantations owned by Ms Elisabeth Samson. She was the first Black woman in Surinamese history allowed, after a long legal fight, to marry a white husband. Before that, in another long legal fight, she had been exiled from Suriname to the Netherlands "forever".

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Blogger Birding Suriname

Paramaribo, Suriname: December 23, 2008-January 2, 2009
By Derek Kverno (2008)

 

Any visit to Suriname, one of South America’s best but least-visited birding destinations, necessitates several days’ stay in Paramaribo. This quaint, colonial capital is noteworthy for its beautiful collection of historical wooden buildings, constructed in the Dutch style with elaborate pitched roofs and hand-carved embellishments.

 

Birders will also note that more than 400 bird species have been recorded in the environs of Paramaribo, where there are three significant sites, each worthy of a day trip: Weg naar Zee, the road to the coast, which passes through swamps and mudflats; Peperpot, an overgrown coffee plantation, which is the best place to find several Guyanan endemics, including the Blood-Colored Woodpecker and Arrowhead Piculet; and Cultuurtuin, a zoo and botanical garden with a good

Suriname Food – Maizena Cookies

Can’t have gluten but craving cookies? Here’s a recipe for you! Maizena cookies are light, not too sweet and they are gluten-free! In stead of flour, we use cornstarch which can be found in the baking section of the grocery store.

But beware…. they are very addictive and most people I know can easily eat four to five in the blink of an eye.

Baking Maizena cookies

These cookies are very popular in Suriname and are usually offered at birthday parties, no matter what cultural background. I am not sure how they originated in Suriname, but it was interesting to find out that similar cookies are made throughout various countries in Latin America. In Brazil they are known as Biscoitos do Maizena where they claim the cookies are from,

Countries of the Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda

ABC of COUNTRIES of the CARIBBEAN

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Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda (Spanish for “ancient” and “bearded”) is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. There is also a number of smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guinea, Long, Maiden and York Islands and further south, the island of Redonda). The permanent population numbers approximately 81,800 (at the 2011 Census) and the capital and largest port and city is St. John’s, on Antigua.

Medicinal Plants [BCD]

Appendix: Medicinal species sold on the Suriname markets in 2006
From The Medicinal Plant Trade in Suriname
Tinde van Andel, Joelaika Behari-Ramdas, Reinout Havinga and Sara Groenendijk

Only the most common medicinal uses and vernacular names of each species are mentioned.

Languages: Sr = Sranan tongo, Au = Ndyuka, Sa = Saramaccan, Jav = Javanese
Part sold: a = ashes, ar = aerial root, b = bulb, ba = bark, f = fiber, fl = flowers, fr = fruits, j = juice, lvs= leaves, r = root, re = resin, s = seeds, sp = spine, st = stem, wh = whole plant, wo = wood.

Vernacular name (language) – Family - Scientific name – Medicinal use – Part sold

abrasa (Sr) Clusiaceae – Clusia grandiflora - winti ar

Curaçao anti-colonial, anti-corruption politician murdered

Reblogged from Dear Kitty. Some blog:

On Curaçao island, the leader of the biggest political party, Helmin Wiels, has been murdered today.

The murder was on Marie Pompoen beach, near Wiels' home, by a group of three people who fled after their crime. Police do not know yet who these perpetrators were, and why they did it.

Helmin Wiels was an opponent of corruption.

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Suriname and Leadership

MAROON LEADERSHIP AND THE SURINAMESE STATE (1760-1990)
By André R.M. Pakosie (1996)

Introduction

An analysis will be offered of the power bases of Maroon leadership, gaanman (Paramount Chief), kabiten (village headmen), and lanti (the council of advisors). Maroon leaders are shown to occupy an intermediary position between the city state and the people of the interior. Jointly they share responsibility for a good relationship between human and the world of gods and spirits. This latter fact is often misunderstood by outside observers.

Africans, Slaves and Maroon

Suriname is situated on the northern coast of South America. Together with the Republic of Guyana, French Guyana, northern Brazil and eastern Venezuela it forms the region known as