Table tennis cracks; from left to right Delano Wirht,
Reverend Hessen and Paul "Sagu" Morris

The Nickerian equivalent of Don King
announces the winner of a fight

Richard Filemon congratulates Rinaldo James,
winner of a king tournament

These guys wrote history in 1970 when they walked all the way to Paramaribo

Nickerian native Walther "Blamo" Brathwaite,
is Suriname's cricketer of the 20th century

Youth football squad Olympia with their manager, the late Garry "Tierik" Romeo
Front row, from left to right: Jalma, Pani, Tjonki, Inder, Siekel & Jagger;
Back row: Pairan, Tigri, Ware, The Manager, Vicky, Sagu & Fobby.

F.C. Stormvogels; front row, from left to right: Willy, Max, Casa, Sonnabuy & Puyi.
Back row: Testing (coach), Doysri, Prapi, Krampu, Desje & Pondo.

My favourite team F.C. Zwaluw
Front row from left to right: Bouta, Testing, Bushi, King, Brama, Laga,
Contino, Maku & Allo;
Back row from left to right: Unknown, Felixdaal, Jansen, Musye, Blaka, Francis,
Fony, Piek, Tol, Moko, Avans & Tan A Kiam

Although the likes of Musye retired long time ago and Maku even passed away,
Zwaluw is still on top of the game (back to back champion 2005)

Bridger of the 20th century Sietsen Tjon A Tsoi (son of Vrouw Lientje),
was born and raised at West Kanaalstraat

Nickerie is the Mecca of Suriname's most popular songbirds twatwa (oryzoborus crassirostris) and picolet (oryzoborus angolensis).
Keeping songbirds is therefore a popular hobby among (male) citizens of Nickerie.
On early sunday mornings contests are held between these birds.
A champion calibre twa twa is worth up to US$ 10,000.00.

Frans "Bada" Fung Fen Chung (first from left), is an icon in this field;
even a contest is named after him.
Pictured utmost right is his son Derrick (like father, like son)

Sunday morning at Volksplein;
while the birds are singing, the scorers are counting