TOURISM

Surinam is to get a national website dedicated to tourism promotion. The project will be funded by the EU.

BANKING

De Surinaamsche Bank N.V. (DSB) closed the year 2008 with a net profit of SRD 22,7 million.

BIOFUELS

Staatsolie, Surinam’s staterun oil company, is working on a future project to develop production of biofuels, together with Brazilian partners, Minister for Natural Resources Gregory Rusland announced.

ECONOMY

Surinam is in a much better position to survive negative effects of the global recession. A good position of the SRD, a comfortable monetary reserve and the prudent monetary policies of the last years are some of the reasons of the country’s “pole position“. This was the message of two IMF-economists, Gamal El Masri and Bernhard Fritz-Krockowoek, while presenting their publication ‘Suriname Toward Stability and Growth’.

(De Ware Tijd)