{"id":194782,"date":"2026-10-13T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/?p=194782"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:00:18","slug":"abrahams-wants-bust-of-bouterse-at-onafhankelijkheidsplein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/abrahams-wants-bust-of-bouterse-at-onafhankelijkheidsplein\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrahams wants bust of Bouterse at Onafhankelijkheidsplein"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>NDP vice-chairman Ramon Abrahams wants to take the initiative for a bust or statue of late former president Desi Bouterse at Onafhankelijkheidsplein. He said this on Monday in the programme Bakana Tori. According to Abrahams, there should be a place where the population can commemorate Bouterse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap \" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; border-color: #ffffff;\">\u201cI<\/span>f Lachmon and Pengel stand at Onafhankelijkheidsplein, then Bouterse should also stand there\u201d, Abrahams stated. He hopes that the party leadership will support his initiative. According to him, the NDP must ultimately take a decision on this, because the party is in power.<\/p>\n<p>Abrahams considers it regrettable that, according to him, the government has not yet discussed a bust of the former president. \u201cWhy is it taking so long? Why has nothing been said about it yet?\u201d, he wondered.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Onafhankelijkheidsplein, he named the OCER party centre and the Monument of the Revolution as locations where, according to him, a statue of Bouterse should be erected.<\/p>\n<p>The NDP vice-chairman stated that Bouterse has meant a great deal to Suriname. \u201cI do not think any leader has achieved more than Bouterse.\u201d He acknowledged that there are also negative aspects to his legacy, but believes that the positive contributions also deserve attention.<\/p>\n<p>Abrahams referred in this regard to the Staatsziekenfonds (SZF), Staatsolie and the construction of bridges. According to him, virtually all bridges were built during military rule or under governments in which Bouterse was in charge.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that Bouterse ensured that Suriname received more royalties from agreements in the gold sector. \u201cHe never sold out the country,\u201d Abrahams said. He believes that the former president should receive the recognition he believes he deserves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramon Abrahams advocates for a bust of the late Delano Bouterse at Onafhankelijkheidsplein, in recognition of his contributions to Suriname and political legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":18826,"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":[16291,24059,20032,18326,16292],"class_list":["post-194782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politiek-sr","tag-key-news","tag-ndp-ramon-abrahams","tag-nieuws","tag-politics","tag-suriname"],"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\/194782","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=194782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194806,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194782\/revisions\/194806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}