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Pho­to: Pres­i­dent of Suri­name, Jen­ny Si­mons (Pho­to cour­tesy CANA).

Suri­name’s first fe­male pres­i­dent, Jen­ny Si­mons, was sworn in as the coun­try’s first fe­male pres­i­dent, along­side Gre­go­ry Rus­land, who was in­au­gu­rat­ed as vice pres­i­dent.

In the his­toric cer­e­mo­ny, the two lead­ers took over from the out­go­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion of Pres­i­dent Chan­drikaper­sad San­tokhi and Vice Pres­i­dent Ron­nie Brunswijk, who have gov­erned the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) mem­ber state for the past five years.