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3 unusual facts about Nickerie


Guno Berenstein

Guno Berenstein (born December 18, 1967 in Nickerie, Suriname) is a Dutch judoka who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the men's extra-lightweight division.

Kabalebo

Kabalebo is an area around the river Kabalebo and it was formerly in the district of Nickerie, but since the re-organisation of the districts it lies in district Sipaliwini.

Clockwise, the Kabalebo resort borders the Upper Coppename River and resort to the East, it's adjacent to the Coeroeni River and resort in the South, bordered in the North across the Courantyne River to Guyana and also to Nickerie.


Ken Monkou

Kenneth John "Ken" Monkou (born 29 November 1964 in Nickerie in Suriname) is a retired Dutch footballer who played in a defensive role.

Petulanos

There are currently three described species; one each in the Xingu, Nickerie and Essequibo river basins.

Rashied Doekhi

The cables report that Doekhi introduced Bouterse to Roger Khan on his private land in South Drain, Nickerie.

Mohammed Rashied Doekhi, also written as Doekhie, is a Surinamese politician and a former district commissioner of Nickerie.

Religion in Suriname

Hindus are mostly concentrated in Nickerie, Wanica and Saramacca where they constitute the largest religious group.

Roger Khan

In the cables there are also reports that Khan and Bouterse, who is the current president of Suriname, have met each other several times 2006 in Nickerie at the home of Bouterse's party member Rashied Doekhi to discuss cocaine trafficking and plot to murder then Suriname's minister of Justice Chan Santokhi and Suriname's attorney general Subhaas Punwasi.

Willem Hendrik Johan van Idsinga

In his late twenties, Van Idzinga began his political career in the colonies, first becoming landdrost of the district of Nickerie in Surinam between 1850 and 1853, before becoming Lieutenant Governor (Dutch: gezaghebber) of Sint Eustatius (1853 – 1859) and Sint Maarten (1859 – 1865).


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