PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – President Chandrikapersad Santokhi says the nation’s pure assets should contribute to a affluent future for each Surinamese, noting that collaboration in any respect ranges is essential for remodeling the power sector.
Addressing the two-day Suriname Consciousness Symposium 2025 (SAS), which is discussing methods for the nation’s socio-economic growth, President Santokhi mentioned collaboration, financial diversification, dialogue platforms, and a transformative mindset are wanted to realize that transformation.
“Our pure assets should contribute to a affluent future for each Surinamese,” he mentioned, calling for a diversification of the financial system by growing new sectors, equivalent to agriculture, tourism, know-how, and renewable power.
He advised the delegates of the significance of transparency in managing pure assets and that revenues from oil and fuel needs to be reinvested in schooling, well being care, and infrastructure.
International Affairs, Worldwide Enterprise, and Worldwide Cooperation Minister Albert Ramdin mentioned that Suriname is at an important crossroads, needing to decide on a future based mostly on renewable power or fossil fuels.
He referred to as for a simply transition to renewable power, which might promote sustainability and encourage financial diversification, native empowerment, and worldwide cooperation.
Ramdin mentioned Suriname’s potential in hydropower, photo voltaic power, and wind referred to as for a joint effort for this transition and that investments in schooling and coaching are important to contain the native inhabitants in growing the renewable power sector.
He advised delegates the power sector is “the lifeblood” of financial progress and well-being in Suriname.
The Govt Chairman of the African Vitality Chamber, NJ Ayuk, mentioned that the power transition worldwide should stability sustainability and the wants of growing international locations. He referred to as on Suriname to take a look at Africa’s achievements and be taught from its errors.
He mentioned he doesn’t imagine that oil and fuel manufacturing will make Suriname a carbon bomb, {that a} nation with 94 % forest cowl is a carbon sink, and that manufacturing have to be sustainable.
The symposium ends in a while Tuesday.
