PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Former Vice President Ashwin Adhin has been arrested in an investigation into the alleged destruction of equipment in the vice presidential office after his party lost...

WAGENINGEN, Netherlands (AP) — Suriname's newly elected parliament chose a former police chief as the country's president on Monday to replace Desiree “Desi” Bouterse, who faces a murder...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — The lawyer for a rice farmer whose company was involved in the largest drug seizure ever in the South American nation of Surinam says his client has been fatally shot.

Lawyer Irwin Kanhai told website Starnieuws that 40-year-old Nitender Oemrawsingh was found in neighboring Guyana with a bullet wound in the head.

Kanhai told local media that Oemrawsingh was not a suspect but had planned to contact police investigating the cocaine seizure.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Authorities in Suriname say they have confiscated more than 2,300 kilograms (5,070 pounds) of cocaine in the largest seizure ever for the South American country.

Acting Police Chief Roberto Prade said Saturday that the cocaine was discovered at the port in the Paramaribo capital. He said the drug was nestled between bags of rice in eight shipping containers.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A fisherman in Guyana has been charged in a deadly April attack on fishing boats off the coast of neighboring Suriname.

A Guyanese police official says 39-year-old Nakool Manohar has been detained on suspicion of murder for involvement in the April 27 on four boats that left 15 men missing and presumed dead.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Sixteen fishermen are missing and feared dead after pirates raided their boats off the coast of Suriname and forced them to jump overboard, authorities in the South American country said Monday.

The fishermen were part of a group of 20 in four boats who were attacked off the Atlantic coast of Suriname, said Cmdr. Jerry Slijngard of the Surinamese Coast Guard.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — A gold mine in Suriname that is majority-owned by a Canadian company says four people were injured when independent miners tried to occupy a portion of its concession in the South American company.

The Rosebel Gold Mine says about 100 independent miners occupied an area known as the Roma Pit for about four hours until they were dispersed by police and security guards who fired shots into the air.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — It electrified this South American country even as it drowned a jungle, so the 1.2-mile-long dam Alcoa built here to harness the Suriname River is more than stone and turbines. It's a symbol, in this tropical land of 560,000, of progress, trauma and a global company's ability to dominate a little country's landscape and society.

Now the Alcoa Corp. is leaving Suriname, and the Afobaka Dam's future rivets everyone from the capital's dealmakers to the forest's subsistence farmers.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Large protests have spread throughout French Guiana, blocking roads to neighboring Brazil and Suriname and prompting the U.S. government to issue a travel warning Friday for the French territory in South America.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Alcoa Corp. said Wednesday that it will permanently close the alumina refinery and bauxite mines in Suriname that were pillars of the economy in the South American nation until the company halted operations there in November 2015.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is projecting an economic contraction of 9 percent this year in struggling Suriname.

A visiting IMF team says that without major policy adjustments, Suriname "risks deepening instability" with sharp exchange rate depreciation and accelerating inflation. It says international reserves are "critically low."

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Soldiers from the South Dakota National Guard teamed up with members of Suriname's armed forces to renovate a school in the South American country.