Sunday, March 1, 2009
Volume:
25
Issue:
3
Abstract:
On December 3, 2008, during a counter-narcotics control and money-laundering seminar in Paramaribo, French Ambassador Richard Barbeyron announced it would provide € 400,000 over the next four years to assist Suriname’s law-enforcement initiatives and strengthen law enforcement cooperation.
Suriname and the French overseas department, French Guiana, share the Marowijne River as a border. As is the case with Suriname’s other borders (e.g., with Guyana), illegal activities such as smuggling of goods, drug trafficking, and illegal small-scale gold mining occur on the border...[more]