- President
The President’s Cabinet supports the presidency. The President is head of State and government and chairs the State Council. Constitutional responsibilities include directing foreign policy, appointing and dismissing ministers, and ratifying approved legislation.
Responsibilities
- Presidential and executive support
- Central policy coordination and monitoring
- Administrative and general affairs
- E-government
- National-security coordination
- Presidential communication
- Vice President
The Vice-President’s Cabinet supports the vice-presidency. The Vice-President chairs the Council of Ministers and is responsible to the President for its daily management. The Council coordinates government policy and the work required to implement it.
Responsibilities
- Support to the Vice-President
- Council of Ministers secretariat
- Executive coordination
- Government communication
- Administrative and operational support
- Home Affairs
The Ministry of Home Affairs coordinates public administration and citizen services. Its service areas include civil registration, election administration, public-sector personnel, gender affairs and the National Archives.
Responsibilities
- Civil registration and citizen affairs
- Public-sector human-resource management
- Domestic administrative and regulatory affairs
- National archives
- Publication of state and advertising gazettes
- Foreign Affairs, International Trade & Cooperation
Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Cooperation coordinates Suriname’s external relations, bilateral and multilateral cooperation, and diplomatic engagement. Its published priorities include relations with neighbouring countries, regional integration, development cooperation, international trade and engagement with the diaspora.
Responsibilities
- Foreign and diplomatic relations
- Treaty administration, ratification and international notifications
- International trade and investment diplomacy
- Development cooperation
- Consular affairs and diplomatic missions
- Diaspora and Persons of Surinamese Descent services
- Defence
Suriname's Defence ministry describes its central objective as safeguarding security throughout the national territory. Its published services include military recruitment and limited transport assistance for care organizations and people with disabilities.
Responsibilities
- National defence policy
- Oversight of the Nationaal Leger
- Military readiness and territorial security
- Defence logistics and personnel
- Civil-military support operations
- Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship & Technological Innovation
Economic Affairs supports enterprise development and oversees areas of trade, industry and commercial services. Its published remit includes import and export policy, business and industrial development, consumer prices and product quality, and weights and measures. It also coordinates business-support activities under the World Bank competitiveness programme.
Responsibilities
- Economic and internal-market policy
- Entrepreneurship and small-business support
- Technological innovation
- Business licensing
- Import, export and foreign-exchange controls
- Intellectual property and consumer protection
- Finance & Planning
The Ministry of Finance and Planning manages public funds and oversees budget execution and financial discipline. Its public administration comprises Finance, Taxes, and Planning and Development Finance, with separate contact routes for each.
Responsibilities
- Budget, treasury and public financial management
- Tax policy and administration
- Planning and development finance
- Fiscal and macroeconomic policy coordination
- Land & Forest Management
The Ministry of Land and Forest Management handles state-land administration and forest and nature management. Its work connects land applications, inspection, surveying and valuation with conservation and sustainable forest use.
Responsibilities
- State-land policy and administration
- Land decisions, declarations and inspection
- Forest policy and management
- Coordination with MI-GLIS
- Oversight of forest-management and conservation bodies
- Youth Development & Sport
The youth-development and sport ministry runs activities that combine after-school support, talent development and sport with rehabilitation of neighbourhood facilities.
Responsibilities
- Youth-development policy
- National youth affairs
- Youth centres and participation
- Sport and recreation policy
- Sports facilities and programmes
- Justice & Security
Suriname's Ministry of Justice and Security covers public safety, legislation, immigration, legal assistance and youth protection. Its public services distinguish residence enquiries from immigration, work permits and consular services. Courts exercise independent judicial authority.
Responsibilities
- Police, fire and penitentiary services
- Legislation and legal affairs
- Crime prevention and enforcement coordination
- Human rights and youth protection
- International justice and security cooperation
- Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries provides agricultural, livestock, fisheries and agricultural-research services. Its responsibilities include producer support, cooperative affairs, plant sales, plant protection and quality inspection, veterinary services and district extension services.
Responsibilities
- Agricultural policy and production support
- Livestock and veterinary services
- Fisheries management and development
- Agricultural research, processing and marketing
- Regional extension and producer support
- Natural Resources
The Ministry of Natural Resources has published directorates for Water, Energy and Mining. In the Bio-SWEET programme, it describes its role as policy lead, overall coordinator and supervisor for expanded electricity and safe drinking-water access in interior communities.
Responsibilities
- Mineral and mining policy
- Energy policy and access
- Water policy and drinking-water infrastructure
- Natural-resource licensing and oversight
- EITI and extractive-sector governance
- Oil, Gas & Environment
The Ministry of Oil, Gas and Environment coordinates oil, gas and environmental policy. Its environmental programmes cover climate adaptation, biodiversity, land and water management, and chemicals and waste.
Responsibilities
- Oil and gas policy
- Environmental policy and regulation
- Spatial planning
- Climate change and biodiversity
- Sustainable land, water, chemicals and waste management
- Education, Science & Culture
The ministry responsible for education, science and culture. Its public structure spans general, vocational, higher and scientific education, cultural policy, teaching materials, scholarships and administration of the education system.
Responsibilities
- General education
- Vocational education
- Higher and scientific education
- Cultural policy and heritage
- Scholarships, curricula and teaching materials
- Education-system administration
- Public Works & Spatial Planning
Public Works and Spatial Planning plans, builds and maintains public infrastructure. Its published responsibilities cover roads, bridges and traffic infrastructure; drainage and coastal or river defences; public buildings; and technical requirements for construction and land subdivision.
Responsibilities
- Civil and building works
- Roads, drainage and water-management infrastructure
- Spatial planning and building control
- State buildings and land assets
- Public green and waste management
- Technical, meteorological and hydrological services
- Regional Development
The Regional Development ministry connects central government with district administration and interior communities. Its published responsibilities include district development, participation in local decisions, markets and support for agriculture in the interior.
Responsibilities
- Regional and district administration
- Coordination of district commissioners
- Development of the interior
- Indigenous and Maroon community development
- Regional services and livelihood programmes
- Social Affairs & Housing
Social Affairs and Housing administers social assistance and housing support. Its published responsibilities include support for low-income households, child benefit, older people and people with disabilities, social work, and assistance with housing construction, renovation, rental or purchase.
Responsibilities
- Social-protection policy
- Social assistance and beneficiary programmes
- General and category-based social care
- Public housing policy
- Housing support and programme delivery
- Transport, Communications & Tourism
The Ministry of Transport, Communication and Tourism oversees air, road and water transport, communications and tourism policy. Its work includes aviation capacity, public-bus services and coordination with sector regulators.
Responsibilities
- Air, maritime and road-transport policy
- Communications policy
- Tourism policy and development
- Transport regulation and operating rules
- International transport agreements
- Oversight of sector entities
- Health, Welfare & Labour
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labour combines public-health administration with welfare and labour policy. Its published health services include nursing inspection, clinical protocols and the Medical Commission. Its work also covers general-practice licensing, preventive health and oversight of health-system financing.
Responsibilities
- Public-health policy and system administration
- Preventive and population health
- Health-profession registration and inspection
- Clinical guidelines and protocols
- Labour policy and worker protection
- Welfare coordination
- Land & Forest Management
MI-GLIS maintains property registration, parcel information and the national geodetic reference system. Its public services include registry extracts, parcel maps and status searches; it also publishes a State ground-rent collection service.
- Land & Forest Management
The Stichting voor Bosbeheer en Bostoezicht promotes sustainable forest management and supervises compliance with the Forest Management Act. Its published functions include field and road inspections, sawmill checks, timber-export inspection, forestry research and economic analysis, and collection of forest levies.
- Natural Resources
EBS is the utility contact for electricity connections, account services and network investment. A new connection starts with an EBS-recognised installer, who submits the application and obtains an expedition number for tracking.
- Natural Resources
SWM produces and distributes drinking water and provides connection and customer-account services. Its laboratory monitors physical, chemical and microbiological quality at production sites, across the network and at customer premises.
- Transport, Communications & Tourism
TAS regulates telecommunications in Suriname. It manages radio spectrum and telephone numbering, issues permits, supervises compliance, handles sector disputes and advises the responsible minister on telecommunications policy.
- Finance & Planning
Belastingdienst Suriname assesses and collects taxes and checks compliance under the Finance and Planning ministry. Individuals and businesses use its portal for VAT, payroll tax, AOV contributions and income tax; it also publishes a VAT-business register and directs traders to Customs.
- Finance & Planning
Douane Suriname, formally the Inspectie der Invoerrechten en Accijnzen, handles commercial import, export and transit declarations through ASYCUDA World. Its published procedure covers registration, an authorised customs broker, goods documentation, duty payment and risk-based Customs checks.
- Finance & Planning
The General Bureau of Statistics produces and coordinates Suriname’s official economic, social and population statistics. Its publications cover prices, national accounts, trade, employment, population and censuses.
- Foreign Affairs, International Trade & Cooperation
SITA promotes investment and trade, helps investors establish business and supports Surinamese exporters with market planning. Its published profile describes an independent state-owned agency under the foreign-affairs ministry.
- Health, Welfare & Labour
BOG is Suriname’s public-health bureau. The 2025 official health budget describes national infectious-disease programmes, traveler vaccinations through its Medical Centre, and a Central Laboratory that also inspects other laboratories.
- Oil, Gas & Environment
NMA administers environmental assessment, environmental permits, pollution monitoring and enforcement. Its amended statutory mandate also covers environmental standards, public participation and oversight of FPIC in decisions affecting Indigenous and Tribal living areas.
- Natural Resources
Coordinates personnel, finance, logistics, legal services, records, internal control and ICT for Natural Resources. It prepares the ministry budget and oversees its execution.
Responsibilities
- Administrative policy and coordination
- Budget preparation and execution oversight
- Support for planning-unit monitoring
- Natural Resources
Develops water policy and strategic water management, including groundwater availability, drinking-water quality and source protection. Its remit includes integrated management and long-term investment planning.
Responsibilities
- Water policy and integrated management
- Drinking-water sector planning
- Water-source mapping and pollution prevention
- Natural Resources
Develops and coordinates sustainable energy policy, renewable-energy investment planning and the national energy sector plan. Its published objectives include wider electrification, particularly in the interior.
Responsibilities
- Sustainable energy policy
- Renewable investment planning
- Electrification and energy-sector coordination
- Natural Resources
Develops and coordinates policy for minerals other than hydrocarbons. Its remit includes mining rights, local participation, community involvement and implementation of international mining commitments.
Responsibilities
- Minerals policy excluding hydrocarbons
- Community involvement in mining rights
- Mining investment and international coordination
- Land & Forest Management
Its Nature Conservation department manages protected areas and wildlife. Forestry functions are shared with SBB.
- Finance & Planning
Manages public funds and supervises their proper expenditure. Its remit includes the state’s financial interests in institutions and financing instruments such as loans, treasury bills, guarantees and investment of state funds.
Responsibilities
- Public funds and expenditure oversight
- State financial interests
- Government financing instruments
- Finance & Planning
Administers tax assessment and collection, monitors compliance with tax laws and provides taxpayers with information and services. Tax receipts are collected for the state treasury.
Responsibilities
- Tax assessment and collection
- Tax-law compliance
- Taxpayer information and service
- Finance & Planning
Coordinates medium- and short-term development planning and mobilises and manages funds from development partners and international financial institutions. Its remit includes planning capacity, participation by state and non-state actors, and monitoring the use of development finance.
Responsibilities
- Development planning
- Development-finance mobilisation and management
- Planning capacity and monitoring
- Home Affairs
Develops government-wide personnel policy and organisational capacity, covering workforce planning, staff development, efficiency, personnel administration and welfare. Its published programme includes modernising personnel records and developing a human-resources information system.
Responsibilities
- Government personnel policy
- Staff and organisational development
- Personnel administration modernisation
- Home Affairs
Maintains population and civil records and provides registration, extracts and identity-related services. Its passport department processes passport applications and declarations. Formerly the Central Bureau for Civil Affairs, it adopted the Directorate Civil Affairs name in March 2026 within the Ministry of Interior.
Responsibilities
- Population registration and address records
- Civil documentation and extracts
- Passport administration
- Foreign Affairs, International Trade & Cooperation
General Administration and Consular Affairs combines the foreign ministry’s internal administrative services with its consular work. Through its consular subdirectorate, it assists Surinamese citizens and companies abroad and coordinates consular services.
Responsibilities
- Internal administrative services
- Consular assistance to citizens and companies abroad
- Coordination of consular activities
- Foreign Affairs, International Trade & Cooperation
The Foreign Affairs Directorate is part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Cooperation. It brings together bilateral affairs, dealing with relations between countries, and multilateral affairs, dealing with cooperation through international bodies. The ministry’s structure also places its foreign postings under this directorate.
Responsibilities
- Bilateral affairs
- Multilateral affairs
- Foreign postings
- Foreign Affairs, International Trade & Cooperation
The International Cooperation Directorate works with overseas partners and Surinamese ministries on cooperation programmes. In October 2025 it convened ministries, partners and UNICEF to discuss the next Suriname–UNICEF programme, including education, child protection, health and youth participation.
Responsibilities
- Consultation with international cooperation partners
- Coordination of programme discussions with ministries and partners
- Defence
Personnel Affairs is a subdirectorate within the Ministry of Defence, separate from the military service commands.
- Defence
Finance is a subdirectorate within the Ministry of Defence, alongside Personnel Affairs and Materiel and Logistics.
- Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship & Technological Innovation
Economic Affairs is one of the directorates of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation, alongside Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation.
- Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship & Technological Innovation
Helps businesses develop new products and production processes. Its programme combines guidance on innovation finance and procedures, assessment of business plans, links with researchers and technology suppliers, and advice on policies that affect innovation.
Responsibilities
- Business innovation support
- Innovation partnerships and policy advice
- Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship & Technological Innovation
Entrepreneurship is a directorate within the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation. The ministry also has a deputy director for Entrepreneurship.
- Land & Forest Management
Develops and implements policy for the allocation and use of state land. Its programme identifies land for production, services and housing, works with public and private partners and seeks more effective collection of state land revenues.
Responsibilities
- State land policy and allocation
- Land-use coordination and revenue administration
- Land & Forest Management
Manages the ministry’s financial flows and budgets as the Financial Management subdirectorate within General Administration. This supports the ministry’s land and forest-management services.
Responsibilities
- Financial administration
- Budget management
- Youth Development & Sport
Develops youth policy around participation, consultation, resilience, economic opportunity and rights. Its 2026 programme supports vocational preparation, youth entrepreneurship and education about rights, with young people involved in shaping policy.
Responsibilities
- Youth participation and resilience
- Skills, enterprise and rights education
- Youth Development & Sport
Develops, implements and coordinates national sport policy. It promotes participation in sport and physical activity, supports opportunities for personal development and uses facilities and awareness programmes to encourage children and adults to exercise.
Responsibilities
- National sport policy
- Sport participation and facilities
- Justice & Security
Operational Services is a directorate within the Ministry of Justice and Security. Its work has included coordinating shared equipment procurement for security services and addressing operational issues raised by service personnel.
Responsibilities
- Coordination of security-equipment procurement
- Operational issues affecting security-service continuity
- Justice & Security
Legal Affairs is a subdirectorate within the Ministry of Justice and Security. It includes Bureau Rechtszorg, which provides legal assistance to people who cannot afford a lawyer, through its own legal staff and appointed private lawyers.
Responsibilities
- Legal assistance through Bureau Rechtszorg for people unable to afford counsel
- Justice & Security
Foreign Nationals Affairs is the ministry’s administrative area for residence, settlement and naturalisation applications. It also prepares removal proceedings for foreign nationals who are not permitted to remain in Suriname.
Responsibilities
- Residence and settlement applications
- Naturalisation applications
- Preparation of removal cases
- Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries
The Fisheries Directorate is the fisheries administration within the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries. Its work includes catch reporting, technical inspections and fisheries research. Under the 2023–2026 seabob management plan, it receives landing reports and logbooks, checks turtle-excluder and bycatch-reduction devices, and studies fish stocks and the effects of fishing gear.
Responsibilities
- Catch and landing-report administration
- Technical checks on seabob-trawler equipment and fishing practice
- Research on fish stocks, breeding grounds and fishing-gear effects
- Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries
Supports livestock production and veterinary protection, including inspection of meat and other animal products and controls on imports. Its veterinary services work to protect animal and human health and provide the assurances needed for trade in animal products.
Responsibilities
- Veterinary inspection and import controls
- Animal-product safety
- Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries
Agricultural Research, Marketing and Processing (LOAV) is the ministry’s agricultural research directorate. Its departments cover crop and fruit research, seed production, plant protection and agricultural health. Its practical work includes seed-quality training for farmers and soil testing to support fertiliser advice and irrigation-water monitoring.
Responsibilities
- Crop and fruit-tree research
- Seed production and seed-quality training
- Plant protection and agricultural health
- Soil testing and agricultural advice
- Oil, Gas & Environment
The Environment Directorate is part of the Ministry of Oil, Gas and Environment. Its environmental portfolio covers climate change, chemicals, biodiversity, water, waste and land management, together with environmental education and international environmental cooperation.
Responsibilities
- Climate-change adaptation and mitigation
- Chemicals, water, waste and land-management programmes
- Biodiversity and environmental education
- Oil, Gas & Environment
Provides the administrative and financial conditions needed to implement the ministry’s policies. The 2026 budget assigns it a supporting role in making policy delivery efficient and effective.
Responsibilities
- Administrative and financial support
- Support for policy delivery
- Education, Science & Culture
Develops higher-education and scientific-education policy, with a focus on quality, research, certification and access. Its 2026 programme includes student financing and scholarships, institutional transition and international academic partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Higher-education quality and research policy
- Student access and financing programmes
- Institutional and academic cooperation
- Education, Science & Culture
Provides the personnel, financial and technical support needed for education, science and culture policy. It oversees administration, ministry payments and education facilities.
Responsibilities
- Personnel administration
- Financial administration
- Education-facility support
- Education, Science & Culture
Coordinates public primary and general secondary education, including MULO, VWO, HAVO and SMO schools. It oversees teaching quality, pupil admission and placement, teacher recruitment and selection, and the conduct of state examinations.
Responsibilities
- Public general-education coordination
- Pupil placement and teacher recruitment
- Teaching quality and state examinations
- Education, Science & Culture
Leads vocational education across Suriname to prepare students for the labour market. Through its lower and secondary vocational-education bureaus, it supports school staffing and learning materials, teacher training, programme quality, projects and links with domestic and international partners.
Responsibilities
- Vocational school staffing and resources
- Teacher development and programme quality
- Vocational projects and partnerships
- Public Works & Spatial Planning
Coordinates public building works, government-building renovation and housing construction programmes. Its departments handle building permits, compliance with construction rules and planning for subdivisions, including the infrastructure that serves them.
Responsibilities
- Government buildings and housing works
- Building permits and subdivision planning
- Public Works & Spatial Planning
Develops and maintains transport and drainage infrastructure. Its 2026 programme covers roads, bridges and jetties, sluices and pumping stations, canals and sewers, coastal defences and traffic-safety installations.
Responsibilities
- Roads, bridges and traffic infrastructure
- Drainage and coastal protection
- Public Works & Spatial Planning
Develops spatial policy and plans for sustainable use of land and other natural resources. It combines spatial data and research with planning, supervision and public information; its 2026 programme also proposes changes to the legal framework.
Responsibilities
- Spatial data and research
- Development planning and supervision
- Regional Development
Handles regional administration, decentralization and interior development. District commissariats fall under the director’s daily direction.
Responsibilities
- Regional administration and decentralization
- Daily direction of district commissariats
- Regional Development
Develops and promotes agriculture in the interior through three subordinate directorates.
Responsibilities
- Interior agricultural development
- Social Affairs & Housing
Social Affairs is a directorate within the Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing. The ministry provides social support through child benefit, old-age provision, financial assistance and basic health-insurance services, with policy areas that include older people and people with disabilities.
- Social Affairs & Housing
Housing is a directorate within the Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing. It forms part of the government’s housing administration. The ministry’s 2026 budget proposal links its reorganisation to preparation of a housing plan for 2025–2030.
- Transport, Communications & Tourism
Coordinates transport policy across road, water and air, including mobility, access, safety and service provision. The 2026 programme covers public transport, taxi and goods transport, maritime services and aviation infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Road and public-transport policy
- Water-transport policy
- Air-transport and infrastructure policy
- Transport, Communications & Tourism
Coordinates communications policy, including telecommunications and ICT development. Its 2026 programme addresses digital infrastructure and access, ICT policy and legislation, regional cooperation and participation in international communications organisations.
Responsibilities
- Telecommunications and ICT policy
- Digital infrastructure and access programmes
- Regional and international communications cooperation
- Transport, Communications & Tourism
Develops tourism through destination marketing, visitor information, local-tourism promotion and sector events. Its 2026 programme also covers tourism awareness and work toward operationalising the Tourism Authority.
Responsibilities
- Destination marketing and visitor information
- Local tourism and sector events
- Tourism-awareness programmes
- Transport, Communications & Tourism
Coordinates central administrative support for the ministry. The 2026 budget describes a shared administrative structure intended to improve monitoring and uniform procedures and allow the technical directorates to concentrate on their sector responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Central administrative support
- Administrative monitoring
- Uniform internal procedures
- Health, Welfare & Labour
Coordinates public-health policy focused on prevention, accessible care and a stronger primary-care system. Its 2026 programme connects health institutions, workforce development, digital health information and sustainable care financing.
Responsibilities
- Prevention and access to care
- Health-system capacity and information
- Regional Development
Develops programmes and projects to improve Indigenous communities’ living conditions and strengthen their capacities.
Responsibilities
- Indigenous community development and capacity building
- Regional Development
Develops programmes and projects for living conditions and capacity building among Afro-Surinamese communities organized in tribal structures.
Responsibilities
- Tribal community development and capacity building
- Regional Development
Broadcasts government information, parliamentary proceedings and ministerial interviews for public education.
Responsibilities
- Public-information broadcasting
- Regional Development
A semi-government foundation under Regional Development that works to reduce socioeconomic disadvantage and support self-sustaining rural economies in the interior.
Responsibilities
- Interior socioeconomic development
- Regional Development
Manages and promotes a cultural centre serving Indigenous people and Afro-Surinamese people from the interior.
Responsibilities
- Cultural-centre management
- Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries
Implements agricultural policy and maintains direct contact with the farming population. Regional services cover eastern, central and western Suriname; the ministry describes the Interior region as not yet formalized.
Responsibilities
- Agricultural policy implementation
- Farmer contact through regional services
- Education, Science & Culture
Develops and implements cultural policy through its departments and affiliated bodies. Its remit includes material and intangible heritage, cultural education, arts participation and the development of cultural funding policy.
Responsibilities
- Heritage conservation and cultural policy
- Cultural education and arts participation
- Development of cultural funding policy
- Education, Science & Culture
Handles personnel administration, including appointments, pay, promotion, absence, leave and departure from service.
Responsibilities
- Personnel records and employment administration
- Education, Science & Culture
Processes ministry payments and subsidies, purchases goods, prepares the education ministry budget and drafts council submissions needed to authorize payments.
Responsibilities
- Payments, subsidies and procurement
- Budget preparation
- Education, Science & Culture
Builds and maintains education facilities and grounds. Its work also includes cleaning, security, storage and distribution of learning materials and school supplies, and school transport support.
Responsibilities
- Education buildings and maintenance
- Learning-material distribution
- School transport support
- Health, Welfare & Labour
Examines applications to establish general medical practices and objections to proposed licences, then advises the health minister. The ministry identifies Article 6 of the General Practice Licensing Decree as its basis.
Announced 2026-07-08 publication on ministry index
Responsibilities
- Examine licence applications and objections
- Advise the health minister
- Inter-agency
Brings together the Anti-Corruption Commission, police, prosecution service and Justice ministry to prepare an anti-corruption action plan and initiate, monitor and coordinate implementation. The Court of Justice and IACCC provide support.
Announced 2026-10-21
Responsibilities
- Prepare an actionable prevention and enforcement plan
- Initiate, monitor and coordinate implementation
- President
Handles administrative exchanges between the President’s Cabinet and ministries, personnel matters, finance and budgets, documentation and information. It also prepares and processes state documents signed or ratified by the President.
Responsibilities
- Cabinet administration and finance
- Processing presidential state documents
- President
Coordinates national-security questions and supports the President’s national-security adviser. Its published remit covers state security, drugs policy, counterterrorism, international security cooperation, environmental security, disaster management and intelligence coordination.
Responsibilities
- National-security coordination
- Advice and interagency consultation
- President
Develops government IT policy, guidelines and protocols. It manages and secures the government data centre, GOV-grid network and gov.sr domain, and develops digital public services and secure information exchange between agencies.
Responsibilities
- Government IT infrastructure and security
- Digital public services
- President
Prepares the handling of administrative appeals addressed to the President. It supports review of written appeals against government decisions where the applicable law makes the President the appeal authority.
Responsibilities
- Preparation of administrative appeals
- Home Affairs
Manages government archives and makes their historical information available to the public and researchers.
Responsibilities
- Archive management and access
- Home Affairs
Prepares and organises elections using reliable population information and transparent procedures.
Responsibilities
- Election preparation and organisation
- Home Affairs
Develops and promotes national gender policy and coordinates its action plan with implementing partners.
Responsibilities
- Gender-policy coordination
- Home Affairs
Facilitates religious organisations and supports the freedom to practise religion and beliefs.
Responsibilities
- Religious-affairs support
- Home Affairs
Provides legal advice, develops and updates rules and arranges publication of the Staatsblad and Advertentieblad.
Responsibilities
- Legal advice and official publications
- Health, Welfare & Labour
Coordinates employment and labour-market policy, including job matching, vocational training and links between income support and access to work. Its 2026 programme also develops labour-market information and cooperation with training institutions.
Responsibilities
- Employment services and skills
- Labour-market policy and information
- Health, Welfare & Labour
Supervises compliance with labour legislation, provides information and technical advice, investigates working conditions and reports gaps in legislation. Its 2026 programme prioritises stronger inspections, safer workplaces and services beyond Paramaribo.
Responsibilities
- Labour-law inspections
- Workplace safety and technical advice
- Health, Welfare & Labour
Develops labour-relations policy and coordinates legal and international labour matters. Its departments cover legislation, international affairs, collective-agreement registration and permits for employment intermediaries, with consultation involving employers and workers.
Responsibilities
- Labour legislation and international affairs
- Collective agreements and intermediary permits
- Public Works & Spatial Planning
Manages public green spaces and waste services to improve living conditions. Its responsibilities include parks and government grounds, household and bulky waste collection and processing, verge cutting, tree maintenance and cleaning local drainage channels.
Responsibilities
- Waste collection and processing
- Public green-space maintenance
- Public Works & Spatial Planning
Supports public works through research, testing and shared services. Its remit includes hydrology, meteorology and testing soils and construction materials, alongside maintenance of government buildings, vehicles and heavy equipment and better district services.
Responsibilities
- Research and materials testing
- Government maintenance and service support
- Oil, Gas & Environment
Its 2026 programme covers management of oil and gas resources, sector data, safety and environmental standards, local participation and preparedness for oil incidents. It also addresses investment partnerships and preparation for the energy transition.
Responsibilities
- Oil and gas policy programmes
- Sector information and risk preparedness
- Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries
Collects information on imports and transit of live animals, animal products, veterinary medicines and feed. It checks documents, consignments, packaging, storage, transport and labelling against the applicable veterinary requirements.
Responsibilities
- Veterinary border documentation
- Consignment and handling checks
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