#suriname
Winter look, get inspired! Our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019! We chose ‘Yasmin Wijnaldum´, of Surinamese descent as our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019. @thesocietynyc @elitenyc @elite_london @elite_amsterdam
This young beauty resides now in New York City and in 2018 she made her debut as an angel at the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. She was on the cover of Vogue Netherlands for the issues April and September 2018.
She walked in fashion shows around the globe since she was 17, from Paris Fashion Week to New York Fashion Week. Now she travels the world as an international supermodel for elite designers, like Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Atelier Versace, Prada, Jason Wu, Alexander Wang, Jean-Paul Gaultier etc. She works for agencies Elite Worldwide and The Society Management in New York.
#BeautyOfTheYear
Reasons why she is our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019;
She is a natural beauty, ambitious, driven, determined, smart, hardworking, humble, proud of her heritage, and keeps believing in herself and her own beauty. She is living her dreams!
DIVERSITY always RULES and INCLUDES!!!! Photo Courtesy: Oscar de la Renta Spring Summer 2019, Elle Magazine
http://www.caribbeanfashionspot.com/pages/Caribbean_Beauty_of_the_Month
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#Autumn #Fall #YasminWijnaldum #models #beauty #fashion #diversity #afro #Caribbean #Suriname #Vogue #Paris #CFS #EliteModels #NYC #CaribbeanModel #CaribbeanFashionSpot #MBFWA #Amsterdam #LA #London #Prada #highfashion #AlexanderWang #VictoriasSecret #FashionWeek
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Fall time, get inspired! Our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019! We chose ‘Yasmin Wijnaldum´, of Surinamese descent as our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019. @thesocietynyc @elitenyc @elite_london @elite_amsterdam
This young beauty resides now in New York City and in 2018 she made her debut as an angel at the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. She was on the cover of Vogue Netherlands for the issues April and September 2018.
She walked in fashion shows around the globe since she was 17, from Paris Fashion Week to New York Fashion Week. Now she travels the world as an international supermodel for elite designers, like Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Atelier Versace, Prada, Jason Wu, Alexander Wang, Jean-Paul Gaultier etc. She works for agencies Elite Worldwide and The Society Management in New York.
#BeautyOfTheYear
Reasons why she is our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019;
She is a natural beauty, ambitious, driven, determined, smart, hardworking, humble, proud of her heritage, and keeps believing in herself and her own beauty. She is living her dreams!
DIVERSITY always RULES and INCLUDES!!!! Photo Courtesy: Oscar de la Renta Spring Summer 2019, Elle Magazine
http://www.caribbeanfashionspot.com/pages/Caribbean_Beauty_of_the_Month
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#YasminWijnaldum #models #beauty #fashion #diversity #afro #Caribbean #Suriname #Vogue #Paris #CFS #EliteModels #NYC #CaribbeanModel #CaribbeanFashionSpot #MBFWA #Amsterdam #LA #London #Prada #highfashion #AlexanderWang #VictoriasSecret #FashionWeek
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After Summer look, get inspired!!! Our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019! We chose ‘Yasmin Wijnaldum´, of Surinamese descent as our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019. @thesocietynyc @elitenyc @elite_london @elite_amsterdam
This young beauty resides now in New York City and in 2018 she made her debut as an angel at the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. She was on the cover of Vogue Netherlands for the issues April and September 2018.
She walked in fashion shows around the globe since she was 17, from Paris Fashion Week to New York Fashion Week. Now she travels the world as an international supermodel for elite designers, like Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Atelier Versace, Prada, Jason Wu, Alexander Wang, Jean-Paul Gaultier etc. She works for agencies Elite Worldwide and The Society Management in New York.
#BeautyOfTheYear
Reasons why she is our Caribbean Beauty of the Year 2019;
She is a natural beauty, ambitious, driven, determined, smart, hardworking, humble, proud of her heritage, and keeps believing in herself and her own beauty. She is living her dreams!
DIVERSITY always RULES and INCLUDES!!!! Photo Courtesy: Oscar de la Renta Spring Summer 2019, Elle Magazine
http://www.caribbeanfashionspot.com/pages/Caribbean_Beauty_of_the_Month
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#YasminWijnaldum #models #beauty #fashion #diversity #afro #Caribbean #Suriname #Vogue #Paris #CFS #EliteModels #NYC #CaribbeanModel #CaribbeanFashionSpot #MBFWA #Amsterdam #LA #London #Prada #highfashion #AlexanderWang #VictoriasSecret #FashionWeek
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This is Part 1
for part 2 (Eastern Europe) click here
and for part 3 (West Africa) click here
I’m currently planning on going to Europe in December to spend Christmas with my German family. One of my American friends from boarding school will be around because he is working in Germany for a year but not going home, and so I’ve invited him to Christmas with my uncle. Because of the way the holiday, and New Year’s Day, falls in the middle of my Sun-Thurs work week, it’s very easy to take off the next week as well, and so we’re now planning a little jaunt around German speaking Europe. It’s all very tentative, but I’ve started looking at prices and things to do around and routes to take, and I map the itinerary below:
It’s fun because it takes us through every Germany speaking country: Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria, and because it is pretty short, with the maximum travel time less than 6 hours. We would have about nine days to do it- probably the first four going quickly point by point and then a slower five in Austria. Who knows if it will materialize or how much of it we will do, but it looks like a lot of fun!
In getting excited for this trip, I started thinking of other overland tours I would like to take, looking into whether or not they’re possible, and fantasizing about when I could do them, who with, and adding extra fun components like making a documentary of the journey or something. It all sounds up in the air and like a dream, but I’m sure I will actually do at least one in the next five years. I always say, “always be dreaming 10 amazing things, then if you only accomplish 1 or 2, you’re still being amazing!” So, I’ll add these to my list of amazing ideas and see where they go.
So without further ado, the trips!
The W®est of South America
This trip would hit all of the things I wanted to do in South America but haven’t yet. It hits three of the four countries on the West of the continent, as well as the rest of the Spanish speaking countries I’ve yet been to, so I call it the W®est trip. It would start in Buenos Aires where I would see my wonderful Italian relatives that live in the Capital. I would then head up to the triple border of Argentina-Paraguay-Brazil to see the Iguazu falls, which are the last waterfall on my list of the top 5 (the others being Niagara, Angel, Gullfoss, and Victoria). I would then head up through Paraguay to Bolivia, stopping to revisit the family of a friend I stayed with in Santa Cruz, the Potosi Salt Flats, and the Mile High city: La Paz. I’d then head into Peru, spending time admiring the Andes, and of course seeing Machu Picchu near Cusco. I’d then head up through Ecuador before finishing in Bogota, Colombia!
The yellow highlighted bits are “optional” thoughts that I would consider depending on time. The first is to explore Argentine Patagonia, supposedly one of the most beautiful places in the world. The second is to take a flight to the Galapagos islands (or maybe Easter island?) from Ecuador. A third one not included on the map would be a quick jaunt over to Suriname and French Guinana- so I could officially say I’d been to every country in South America!
Bonus trip (I haven’t put too much thought into but in talking with some friends, thought to include): Southeast Asia- somehow incorporating Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and maybe Myanmar?
Melaica Tuinfort is a 31 year old paralympic weightlifter who was born in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname.
Melaica’s legs are very short and severely malformed due to a Congenital Longitudinal Central Reduction Defect. Because of this, she never had any muscle function below her knees and has been a wheelchair user her entire life.
When she was 15 years old, Melaica’s parents decided to move to The Netherlands with Melaica, her brother and her sister.
Melaica always had a great passion for athletics and she was particularly gifted in the sport of powerlifting. She often amazed people when they saw her lifting unbelievable amounts of weight and at a young age Melaica already knew that she wanted to make her sport out of this.
Melaica made her international debut in 2009 but it took some time for her to achieve the success she wanted. In 2014, Melaica won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Dubai. Her greatest achievement though was winning a bronze medal at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016!
Unfortunately, Melaica hasn’t been selected for the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this year. She isn’t giving up on her paralympic dream though and now put herself to training for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France.
Melaica recently graduated in Tax Law and Economics at the University of Rotterdam and has had a part-time job at Wittepoel for years now. This is the specialized orthopaedic shoe company that designed the shoes Melaica wears during most competitions. In one of her blog posts, Melaica wrote that in the past several companies tried to design shoes for her. None of these ever really succeeded at this though because of the special shape of her feet. Wittepoel was the first to manage in designing comfortable and good looking shoes for Melaica and she is very happy with Wittepoel as employer and sponsor!
Besides her busy schedule, Melaica regularly visits Suriname and loves shopping, dining or going out with her friends.
If you’d like to know more about Melaica, you can visit her website. Also, feel free to follow her on InstagramorFacebook!
Melaica Tuinfort (@melaicatuinfort) • Instagram photos and videos
Maria Sibylla Merian — Banana Tree Flower with Io Moth from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Insects of Suriname) first published in 1705.
Merian was a German artist and naturalist self funded a trip Suriname to record the entomological life in the region. A somewhat unusual enterprise for a woman even under Dutch Colonial Rule.
Portrait of Merian by Jacob Marrel. 1679.
![Ary Scheffer [Dutch-French. 1795 - 1858]Portrait of a woman c. 19th century](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1400fac044bc405fbe2ce840b4022962/a712755a8703200b-88/s640x960/0a983454b70b7b0e7f366a705162c0d78322a7dc.png "Ary Scheffer [Dutch-French. 1795 - 1858]Portrait of a woman c. 19th century")
#WIMNEWS CARICOM STARTS PLANS TO REMOVE TRADE BARRIERS WITH CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES ⓦ〽️
A representative group of #CARICOM Heads of Government from #Antigua and #Barbuda, #Barbados, #Belize, #Dominica, #Guyana, #Montserrat and #Trinidad and #Tobago and other high-level
representatives from The #Bahamas, #Grenada, #Jamaica, #StVincent and the #Grenadines, #Suriname and regional and international institutions met in Georgetown, #Guyana at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on May 19 and 20,
2022 as participants in the “Agri-Investment Forum and Expo: Investing in Vision 25 by 2025”, organised by the Government of Guyana in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat.
The Group took the opportunity of the important and timely Forum to discuss the current grave global situation of the shortages and high prices of imported food;
the shortage and increased prices of fertilizers and other agricultural inputs; and the severe problems affecting transportation and supply.
They noted with great concern that the member states of CARICOM have been deeply impacted by these developments which have resulted in a dramatic increase in the cost of food, exposing still further the region’s food insecurity due to its vulnerability to external influences.
The Group recognized that, within CARICOM, member states have the capacity to attain a high level of #foodsecurity for the #caribbean Community as a whole, provided that urgent action is taken to establish sustainable machinery, and to adhere to the terms of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. Via @newsroomguyana #wayforward #agriforum #tradebarriers (at Georgetown, Guyana)
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WHO Y’ALL THINK WILL WIN ?⤵️ JAMAICA OR SURINAME
#jamaica VS #suriname Today is Match day ! #ReggaeBoyz Vs Suriname 6:30 (EST)#goldcup #goldcup21 (at Exploria Stadium)
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Yucca bread with vegan cheese #yeastfree #glutenfree #healtyfoods #goodfood #suriname #caribbeanlife
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Going off on Arnold Arakaza’s sick choreo
Javaanse bami met garnalen.
