The Marriott Hotels brand is back in Panama. Marriott has opened the new Marriott Panama Hotel, a 331-room hotel connected to the Albrook Mall, the largest shopping mall in Central America. The Marriott brand has taken over the former Wyndham property in the Allbrook Mall. adding a new “M Club,” a place Marriott says is an “exclusive spot […]
Marcelo Benítez, general manager of Tigo Panama, explained that “the first thing is to ensure that customers have good service, that means expanding the digital highway, it is expanding the nodes. Securing nodes is improving the infrastructure in the home and having coverage in places where there are still no. He added that “that’s why […]
On January 16 Air France – KLM moved its operations to Terminal 2 of Panama’s Tocumen International Airport (PTY). The French-Dutch group is the first airline to offer long-haul services from the new facilities. The first operation was flight KL 757, with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner registered with the registration PH-BKC and christened «Busy Lizzie». The […]
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. might not be as close to resolving its differences with the Panamanian government as the company suggested earlier this week. Chief executive Tristan Pascal said on a Jan. 10 conference call that First Quantum and Panama weren’t “far away” from a new agreement that would allow the Vancouver-based company to continue […]
When Javier Lijo bought nine acres of deforested land atop a Panamanian island, he had an eye on the waves below. A keen surfer, the Argentine had always dreamed of a leisurely life surfing the sea, away from the car-filled giant metropolises of Latin America. But a love of sustainable living took him in a […]
This group pointed out in a communiqué the multiple problems that have been denounced for years, such as the lack of water, a proper internal fire station, water tankers, trained personnel and ambulances; it also demanded concrete actions from the Government. For their part, Fire Department officials admitted that the main obstacle to confine the […]
A dogged U.S. scholar has upended the conventional wisdom about enslaved Africans in the New World by demonstrating that the first successful slave uprising in the Americas occurred in Panama, not in Haiti, as many have long believed. Robert Schwaller, a University of Kansas historian, discovered new details about the Panama uprising at the General […]
Panama’s Colonial Transisthmian Route, which aspires to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has historical value not only for the Central American country and the Americas, but also for the world. For this reason, authorities are working on a long-term management plan that involves an inter-institutional team for its restoration and conservation. “Part of the […]
Considered the most important statistical study of the country, Panama begins today and until March 4 the XII Population Census and the VII Housing Census. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), the count, pending since 2020 when it was postponed by Covid-19, will allow knowing how many Panamanians and foreign residents […]
Panama and India to explore green hydrogen collaboration. India and Panama are in talks to explore collaboration on renewable technologies like green hydrogen, said the foreign minister of Panama Janaina Tewaney Mencomo. In an exclusive interview with Mint, the Panamanian foreign minister said that both countries could collaborate to develop green hydrogen as an alternate […]