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First ATMs in Paramaribo

Eerste Cashpnts pinautomaten in Paramaribo

Banking Network Suriname NV (BNETS) will start using the first Cashpnts (ATM) in Paramaribo, at the corner of Kasabaholoweg and Estreliasstraat, on October 15th. These 2 Cash Points are located in the old DSB building. BNETS will be moving to this location soon. Improving access to financial services for all citizens is a joint effort defined in a memorandum of …

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Positive advice on the “Janssen recall” • Chicago vaccination conflict: half of agents threatened with leave

Positive advice on the “Janssen recall” • Chicago vaccination conflict: half of agents threatened with leave

About half of Chicago’s police force could be put on unpaid leave next weekend because officers refuse to disclose their immunization status. who is writing CNN based on an estimate from the city’s largest police union. This is the latest escalation in the vaccination dispute between the union and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. In August, Lightfoot announced that all city …

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Pakistani airline suspends flights to Kabul, evacuation of interpreters in danger

Pakistani airline suspends flights to Kabul, evacuation of interpreters in danger

Pakistani airline PIA reports that flights between Pakistan and the Afghan capital Kabul are suspended due to intimidating interference from the Taliban. Just last Tuesday, dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for the Netherlands were evacuated to Pakistan on a PIA flight. The Pakistanis are also counting on the cooperation of the Pakistanis for further evacuation flights. PIA’s decision seems …

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CDS of staff swabbed in the workplace due to infections

Personeel CDS geswabt op werkvloer vanwege besmettingen

CDS staff were swabbed in the workplace due to infections. Due to some COVID-19 infections, which were established over the past weekend, rapid tests were carried out with staff at the Suriname Communication Service (CDS). CDS director Alven Roosveld said that in order to control and prevent the spread of the virus in the workplace, it was decided to invite …

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Rumeysa is the tallest woman in the world: “I feel special”

Rumeysa is the tallest woman in the world: "I feel special"

Gelgi owes its record size to the rare Weaver syndrome; a congenital disease caused by a change in DNA. One of the characteristics is proliferation. It’s not always easy, she told Guinness World Records. For example, it causes health problems, she is in a wheelchair and she has been bullied. She can walk with a walker, but only for a …

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German neo-Nazi buried in grave of Jewish music scholar: ‘Terrible mistake’

German neo-Nazi buried in grave of Jewish music scholar: 'Terrible mistake'

Things went wrong in a cemetery southwest of the German capital Berlin, which is run by a Protestant church. 48-year-old neo-Nazi Henry Hafenmayer was buried there last Friday, writes The Guardian. It happened exactly where the Jewish singer and music scientist Max Friedländer, who died in Berlin in 1934, was laid to rest. Emptied tomb Friedländer’s grave had already been …

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