Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Free Travel Cheap Tickets Auction Newsletter Immigration Affiliate Make Money Suriname HISTORY Arawak and Carib tribes lived in the region before Columbus sighted the coast in 1498. Spain officially claimed the area in 1593, but Portuguese and Spanish explorers of the time gave the area little attention. Dutch settlement began in 1616 at the mouths of several rivers between present- ...

Leaders of Suriname (Republic of Suriname) [To the list of countries] [To the ZPC Homepage] Parties: BVD Basis Party for Renewal and Democracy NDP: National Democratic Party NF: New Front (coalition) NPS: National Party of Suriname NRP: National Republican Party PALU: Progressive Workers' and Farm Laborers' Party VHP: Progressive Reform Party Presidents of the Republic Johan Henri Eliza Ferrier 25 Nov 1975 - 13 Aug 1980 [picture] n/p Désiré Delano Bouterse ...