SURINAME  – The summer vacation has started but the principal and the teachers from the Clarkeschool are worried about  the kids.. During the entire school year the government’s After School Care and Tutoring  Project (NOB) provided the kids with homework assistance and a free meal. “Most of the kids only had one meal a day and that was the meal which they got during the NOB,” said Principal Jane Ladi from the  Clarkeschool. A big group of kids who are enrolled at this elementary school which is located at Santpdorp come from poor families that live at Sunny Point…[+]

SURINAME  – Whenever kids must do sums or do language exercises, they must first understand what is being asked of them. Ismene Krishnadath, Education Expert and pedagogical teacher at the Advanced Teachers’ Training Institute (IOL), pointed out that a thorough investigation must be carried out to determine why most pupils from all parts of the nation scored 5 for arithmetic. Language is evidently a big problem within the education sector because the results of all subjects are very low in general…[+]

SURINAME – The police on Wednesday warned the nation to remain cautious because criminals are pretending to be police officers. Reports indicate that criminals pretended to be police officers on two separate occasions.  Police Inspector Humphrey Naarden, head of the Public Relations Office of the Police Force Suriname (KPS), told Times of Suriname that he is currently putting together a short movie to explain to people how they can check to see if the proof of identity of a police officer is the real thing and not fake…[+]