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Decades:

Incumbents

Events

2 October – President Chan Santokhi announces a $10 billion project titled GrandMorgu between the French energy firm TotalEnergies, the US-based APA Corporation and the state oil company Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname to extract an estimated 700 million barrels of the coast of Suriname.^[1]

Holidays

Source:^[2]

1 January – New Year's Day
10 February – Chinese New Year
25 March – Phagwah
29 March – Good Friday
31 March - Easter Sunday
1 April - Easter Monday
10 April – Eid al-Fitr
1 May – Labour Day
16 June – Eid al-Adha
1 July – Ketikoti (Emancipation Day – end of slavery)
9 August – Indigenous People's Day
10 October – Day of the Maroons
1 November – Diwali
25 November – Independence Day
25 December – Christmas Day
26 December – Boxing Day

Deaths

24 December – Dési Bouterse, chair of the National Military Council (1980–1987) and president (2010–2020).^[3]

References

^ "French and US companies to invest $10 billion to extract oil off Suriname's coast". Associated Press. 2 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
^ "Suriname Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^ "Suriname's fugitive ex-President Desi Bouterse dead at 79". Reuters. 25 December 2024.

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Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

2024 in the Caribbean

West
Indies

Antilles

Greater
Antilles

Hispaniola	Dominican Republic Haiti

Lesser
Antilles

Leeward
Islands

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Les Saintes
- Marie-Galante
Montserrat
Saba^{^*}
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Eustatius^{^*}

Saint Martin^{^}	Collectivity of Saint Martin Sint Maarten
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean

Leeward
Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire^* Curaçao

Windward
Islands

Barbados^†
Trinidad and Tobago^†

Lucayan
Archipelago

Bahamas

Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea

Aves Island
San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank^~
- Serranilla Bank^~

Caribbean
continental
zone

Quintana Roo
- Cozumel

Central America	Belize Honduras Bay Islands Izabal Limón Corn Islands North Caribbean Coast South Caribbean Coast Panama
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba^ǂ Tigri Area^ǂ Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^{^}These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which ^*the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

^†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

^ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ^~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

^#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.