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‘Royalties for everyone’: Suriname president plans to share oil wealth

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Chan Santokhi, the Suriname president, at the India-Caricom summit in Guyana earlier this month. Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP

Suriname’s president has announced a program of “royalties for everyone” as the South American nation plans for a boon from recently discovered oil and gas reserves.

Suriname and its neighbor Guyana expect to make billions in the years to come from rich offshore crude deposits. Earlier this month, Guyana announced all adult citizens living at home and abroad would received a payout of around £370 as part of an effort to redistribute its oil wealth.

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