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Top 10 Most Depreciated Currencies vs. US Dollar in H1 2025
Sada Elbalad
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July 6, 2025
Sun 06 Jul 2025 | 08:57 AM A number of emerging and frontier market currencies recorded steep losses against the U.S. dollar in the first half of 2025, with Venezuela and several African nations at the forefront of global currency depreciation....
Parliament to elect Jennifer Simons as Suriname’s first female President
Demerara Waves
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July 5, 2025
Last Updated on Saturday, 5 July 2025, 19:16 by Denis Chabrol By Ivan Cairo Dr Jennifer Geerlings-Simons PARAMARIBO – Suriname is on the cusp of a historic moment. This Sunday, July 6, Jennifer Simons is set to become the country’s first female...
Global Fund Commends Suriname’s Elimination of Malaria
MedEdge MEA
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July 4, 2025
Suriname has officially been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), becoming the first country in the Amazon region to eliminate the disease. This certification marks the successful interruption of indigenous malaria...
Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life
Mongabay
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July 4, 2025
As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures. Petrobras has been conducting surveys since 2013 using seismic airgun blasts that can destabilize marine ecosystems by...
Mercosur and EFTA finalize free trade agreement
Fresh Plaza
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July 4, 2025
Mercosur, South America's leading trade bloc, and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) have finalized a trade agreement. EFTA includes Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland, while Mercosur consists of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,...
US$400m in deals from Afreximbank
The Nation Barbados
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July 30, 2025
Barbados could be in line for about US$400 million in deals financed by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). President and chairman Professor Benedict Oramah says this is a portion of the US$2.5 billion in deals now in the pipeline for...
Pakistan suspends chicken trade with Brazil due to bird flu
Pakistan Observer
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July 4, 2025
Pakistan is among several other countries that have placed restrictions on import of chicken from Brazil after it reported first case of bird flu in May this year. Reports said the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry has shared updated list of the...
BlackLine Studio360: The Platform for Future-Readiness
CFO Dive
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Jagdeo defends US$650,000 per month consultancy contract for GPL as “small amount”
News Source Guyana
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July 31, 2025
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, today defended the Guyana Government’s approval of a US$650,000 per month contract between the Guyana Power and Light Company, and Dominican Republic energy company, InterEnergy Group. He said a Memorandum of...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Sranan Gold
Investing News Network
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July 28, 2025
Investor Insight Sranan Gold offers early-stage exposure to a high-impact gold discovery in Suriname’s Guiana Shield, one of the world’s most underexplored gold belts. Backed by the same technical team behind some of the region’s largest gold...
George Jarvis isn’t going to play it safe against Regian Eersel at ONE Fight Night 34: “I want to go in there and take him out”
Sportskeeda
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August 1, 2025
British Muay Thai destroyer ‘G-Unit’ George Jarvis of the United Kingdom will not simply play it safe against ONE lightweight Muay Thai world champion ‘The Immortal’ Regian Eersel when the two meet in the ONE Championship ring this weekend. The...
Civil society organizations consulted throughout the Caribbean to advise CARICOM Migration Policy Framework
Dominica News Online
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August 1, 2025
Group from St Lucia consultation. Photo: IOMIn July 2025, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), working with the CARICOM Secretariat and the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), held eight meetings with over 127 civil society...
Regian Eersel believes George Jarvis will fold under the pressure of world title fight: “He’s not ready”
Sportskeeda
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July 31, 2025
Two-sport ONE world champion Regian Eersel of Suriname and the Netherlands thinks the bright lights of the global stage will be too much for George Jarvis. 'The Immortal' believes his British challenger will be biting off more than he can chew...
Population growth in first half of 2025 similar to last year
Statistics Netherlands
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July 29, 2025
Download CSVShow datatable Population dynamics, first half year Bevolkingsgroei 2025* (x 1,000) 2024 (x 1,000) 2023 (x 1,000) Population growth 36.92 37.88 52.59 Immigrants 141.16 138.82 149.29 Emigrants 95.60 94.04 90.73 Deaths 89.56 88.54 86.28...
Leaders call for reflection, action on African Emancipation Day
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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President Christine Kangaloo has challenged citizens to “confront the injustices and inequalities” that persist in society in her African Emancipation Day message. Kangaloo also called on the population to “examine our...
Let’s continue the emancipation challenge
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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One hundred and eighty-seven years after the official end of slavery was announced through the Emancipation Proclamation, there is a need for continuing reflection on both the experience and consequences of that most...
PM praises African people’s resilience
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 1, 2025
News Clint Chan Tack 6 Hrs Ago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar outside the Red House on July 28. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has praised members of the Afro-Trinidadian community for their resilience and...
Rozenstruik surprised by UFC release, not opposed to a return
MMA Junkie - Virginia
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Eight knockout wins, six main event bouts and a positive record didn't keep Jairzinho Rozentruik from getting his walking papers from the UFC. The heavyweight was released from the promotion earlier this year after a unanimous decision loss to...
Greenheart Gold Announces Resignation Of Director
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN- Newsfile Corp) Longueuil, Québec--(Newsfile Corp. - July 30, 2025) - Greenheart Gold Inc. (TSXV: GHRT) (OTCQX: GHRTF) (the "Company" or "Greenheart Gold") announces that Mr. Dušan Petković, who was nominated by G Mining Ventures Corp....