{"id":188844,"date":"2026-09-16T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/?p=188844&preview=true&preview_id=188844"},"modified":"2026-09-15T23:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:11:13","slug":"brunswijk-leaves-duration-of-ebs-directorship-open-no-one-knows-gods-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/brunswijk-leaves-duration-of-ebs-directorship-open-no-one-knows-gods-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunswijk leaves duration of EBS directorship open: \u2018No one knows God\u2019s plan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>Leo Brunswijk is leaving open how long he will remain director of Energiebedrijven Suriname (EBS). In an interview with LIM FM, he said that people do not fully determine the course of their own lives and that, according to his faith, his position at the energy company is in God&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap \" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; border-color: #ffffff;\">B<\/span>runswijk stated that everything someone encounters along their path in life has already been mapped out by God. From that conviction, he also views his current position at EBS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lord ensures that I will remain there for the time being,\u201d Brunswijk said. At the same time, he stressed that no one knows how long a particular situation will last or what may happen the next moment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EBS director, people can make plans, but do not have full control over how their lives unfold. As an example, he mentioned someone who builds and furnishes a house, after which circumstances can suddenly change completely.<\/p>\n<p>Brunswijk further stated that the meaning and influence of a name do not arise automatically, but are given \u201cfrom above\u201d. \u201cYou do not know what role you must play for the Lord and when your role ends,\u201d the director said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Brunswijk stresses that, according to his faith, his directorship at EBS is in God\u2019s hands and that he does not know how long he will hold this position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_29234516172805655_1309923202201307":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1158244960706604":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1093738170500407":"","facebook_29234516172805655_108923581283702":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16390],"tags":[20269,20970],"class_list":["post-188844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politiek-sr","tag-energy-companies-suriname","tag-leo-brunswijk"],"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\/188844","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188889,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188844\/revisions\/188889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}