A good guide for everybody who's moving to Suriname - http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/suriname.aspx

And don't forget to fill a moving form for IRS

Hi brad2376
Wow. That's a lot of great information. Can I ask how you know these things please? I know that I've been searching for information like this for a few months now and I have posted a few enquiries online -- both here and elsewhere -- but I don't think I included all of the details that you have above. I also have a lot of documentation that I've posted on Ancestry -- including the Barbados passport part. However, you seem also to be including details that I haven't posted elsewhere. Are you perhaps related to this family too? Some new things that I learned recently are that Dr Bradley had an office in Ellicott Square in Buffalo, NY in 1914 and that he listed his residential address as 60 Oxford Ave (though the only family that I could find living at that address was one with last name Stephan -- so that's kind of a dead end). He also had a business at Ellicott Square in 1913 Buffalo Directory -- called the Cottica Rubber and Coffee Co (Wm H Bradley prop). Since his plantation Mon Sort was on the Cottica, this could be no one other than him. I also found an article from Washington Post 1909 describing a man named Eugene Henry Teats' involvement with the Eddie Guerin escape. In the article, Teats mentions that he had been working in Dutch Guiana for the past 16 years with a Dr W. H Bradley -- formerly of Colorado -- and that they together held more than 100 000 acres of mining concessions both in Dutch and French Guiana. This last bit of information leads me to search for records of Dr Bradley in Colorado -- though I have not found anything definite there yet (and it conflicts with the 1900 census record for Schuyler Cty, NY that I found previously. The two pieces of corroborating evidence that I have for this are the facts that there is a man named Teats mentioned in "Jungle Gold" and that I was able to obtain a record from the American Medical Association for a man named William Henry Bradley (born in 1862) who was recorded as practicing medicine in Colorado 1881, Michigan 1881, Illinois 1894 and Buffalo 1914. Do you happen to know anything more about these 2 pieces of information? I'd love to know who you are and how you happen to know so much about Dr Bradley -- and I'm really hoping that you haven't just found this stuff out from other work that I have posted online. I think you know too many details for you to have gathered these things up from my own postings though, but I am baffled how you could know so much about the family unless you're actually part of it. I'd love for you to email me directly so that we can discuss this more privately. Please send a note to ian_george_ab@yahoo.ca . I'm truly fascinated by this connection we've made.
 
Ian

can some body pleas keep me up to date on suriname like tell me two big curren evnts thats goin on i need it for a paper im writing

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So you'd expect, in a book written in English, to find "Surinam"?

The official name is Suriname. However, historically the name Surinam has been used primarily in context of english usage. For instance, Surinam Airways the official ariline of Suriname uses it without the (e). The official name of Germany is Deutschland, but is Suriname we call it Duitsland. If one wants to be precise in Dutch it should be referred to as Suriname. In English it technically is Suriname also. In many old english movies and books it is referred to as Surinam.
I guess if the official language is changed to sranan(g) tongo we would have to call it sranan or sranang..... which is it?

Can anyone help me find this person.
Avinaash Bisnajak
Company name Arisha's Import & Export
If you can help me reply tp paulope@aol.com

Hi Ian,
I read with interest the information you've found on WH Bradley.  I may be able to add some parts to the puzzle.  There were 5 children:  Alice, Eileen, William, Lyster, and Enid who did
 not survive childhood and is buried at Parmaribo.  William was the last to survive, and he passed away in 2003 in
Vancouver, B.C., Canada.  
Mary was actually born in Portugal, and was one of the servants on Dr. Bradley's estate.  
Dr. Bradley's wife (don't know her name) was legally insane, and at that time he was
unable to divorce her, and he therefore just carried on an affair of several years with Mary.  It is believed that after his death, that she convinced someone in authority that they had been married, and she and the children all assumed his last name.  She also managed to convince someone that she was born in British Guyana, so she could get a British passport.  For reason's I haven't been able to ascertain, she entered Canada on a passport from Barbados, which both countries at the time being British colonies would have allowed her access to Canada.
Dr. Bradley had always promised her that he would take her back to the US, but it is
believed that he got himself in some trouble with the US Government and was unable to return to the US.  He was involved in some form of racketeering, and was somehow involved with Eddie Guerin and the escape from
Devil's Island prison.  
In terms of the estate of WH Bradley -- I have no idea what became of his holdings.  Mary (who went by the name "May), left with her 4 surviving children under a veil of secrecy with many forged documents.  It is unlikely that she or any of the children were entitled to any of WH Bradley's holdings.  They ended up in Canada because they had relatives who could care for them, and help them become established, and because they were unable to go to the US.  I don't know if they had any contact with WH Bradley's family in Indiana.
Alice married an American, and lived most of her life in the NorthEast of the US.  Eileen lived in British Columbia and Alberta.  Lyster became a mountie, and spent most of his life in Western Canada.  William worked for the Canadian National Railway and lived just about everywhere in Canada.  He raised his family first in Edmonton, and then in Vancouver.  Mary lived with William in Edmonton until she passed away sometime in the 1950s.  
Hope this helps...
 
 
 
 

Thanks very much for sharing this video on Ramlila in Suriname. I can see some similarities with Trinidad.
In how many places would you find Ramlila in Suriname?
 

Ja, het komt van youtube........

Sranan - dagu, Saramaccan - dágu, Sarnami - koetta, Dutch - hond, Kari'na - pero, English - dog
 
Sr - lagadisa, Sara - kaluwá, Sarn - giergietaan, Dutch - hagedis, Kal - karu'wa, Eng - lizard
 
Sr - maskita, Sara - máku, Sarn - maskieta, Dutch - mug, Kal - ?, Eng - mosquito