{"id":182820,"date":"2026-08-27T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/?p=182820&preview=true&preview_id=182820"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:38:51","slug":"gajadien-enormous-pools-of-cyanide-are-forming-in-the-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/gajadien-enormous-pools-of-cyanide-are-forming-in-the-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"Gajadien: \u201cEnormous pools of cyanide are forming in the interior\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>\u201cOver the past three months, enormous numbers of swimming pools filled with cyanide have emerged in the interior,\u201d DNA member Asiskumar Gajadien said in parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap \" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; border-color: #ffffff;\">A<\/span>ccording to him, these cyanide-contaminated pools of water have emerged in recent months as a result of illegal gold mining activities. He considers it regrettable that no action is being taken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/minogm.suriname\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry<\/a> of Oil, Gas and Environment or by the National Environmental Authority (NMA). \u201cWhen the NMA is asked to take action, it casually states that there is no transport to reach the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Minister Patrick Brunings is often abroad. If he travelled less, the money could be used to cover transport costs for <a href=\"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/nma-werkt-aan-landelijke-standaardprocedure-voor-aanpak-milieudelicten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NMA<\/a> staff to travel to the interior. \u201cThey would then have an overview of everything happening in the interior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DNA member further stressed that people nowadays do not have to travel to the location to gather information. Satellite images are available, and these images can be used to properly monitor the situation. \u201cThese satellite images clearly show that many cyanide water pools have emerged in recent months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large cyanide ponds have emerged in the interior in recent months due to illegal gold mining, while the ministry and environmental authority have failed to act adequately, according to MP Gajadien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":182823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"4","show_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16333],"tags":[2586,19949,19946,11438,5852,19948,19947],"class_list":["post-182820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-asiskumar-gajadien","tag-illegale-goudwinningsactiviteiten","tag-kn-en","tag-minister-olie-gas-en-milieu","tag-nationale-milieu-autoriteit","tag-vergiftigde-waterpoelen","tag-zwembaden-cyanide"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182912,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182820\/revisions\/182912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}