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The 1660 Restoration of the Monarchy in England was the cause of much unrest in Surinam. Willoughby himself, who had been relieved of his Governorship of Barbados by the Parliamentarians and returned to England, [1] was in 1662 restored to the governorship of Barbados and given the proprietorship of some of the 'Charibbee' islands and of ...
Former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, whose conviction for involvement in the killing of 15 people more than four decades ago was upheld in December, must report to a jail to serve his ...
Bouterse, 78, who dominated Suriname's politics for decades and left office in 2020, faces 20 years in prison. Bouterse's lawyer Irvin Kanhai told reporters as he left the court that he had not ...
PARAMARIBO (Reuters) -Suriname's fugitive former President Desi Bouterse has died aged 79, the country's government said on Wednesday, almost a year after he fled authorities to avoid jail ...
William Byam (died 1672) was an English colonist, politician, and agriculturalist who lived during the periods of the English Civil Wars, Interregnum, and Restoration.He was active in English and Barbadian politics, and played a critical role in establishing and governing a short-lived English colony in what is now Suriname.
When he arrived he started bombarding Surinam.After a while William Byam, surrendered after a brief skirmish.Following the surrender, the English colonists in the region were required to pay a sum of 100,000 pounds of sugar as a form of ransom.
The lawyer representing Suriname's ex-President Desi Bouterse, who has yet to turn himself in to start a prison sentence for involvement in the murder of 15 activists in 1982, said on Friday he ...
Funeral at slave plantation, Suriname. Colored lithograph printed circa 1840–1850, digitally restored. Suriname (circa 1914) in the Encyclopedia of the Dutch West Indies, by Surinamese cartographer Herman Benjamins and Dutch ethnographer Johannes Snelleman. Maroon village, Suriname River, 1955. In South America, slavery was the norm.