GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec 31, 2004 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad will become the first countries to enter a Caribbean single market economy during a meeting in February in Guyana.

Suriname has initiated a program to provide 80 percent of the country's drought-stricken Maroon and American Indian villages with rice and sugar, an official said Monday.

So so peeps, we've pulled it through! Wiseman says: If you can dream it, you can build it. The project kickoff was in October 2004 with the creative monkeys as our web designers.

Suriname's leading government officials discuss results and plans for economic diversification and structural reforms. Suriname is endowed with natural resources ranging from bauxite to alumina, oil, gold and timber.

Alumina's party sours Jul 29, 2004 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian-listed resource group Alumina has posted a $A168 million profit for.

Suriname Gets Rated Last Tuesday, Moody's gave Suriname a B1 foreign currency ceiling.