This is a nice story about our local dog rescue and foster home here in Boquete that Jackie Lange put in video. This couple started with nothing and have built a great organization. Yes hard work pays off!! Javier and Magaly have always helped dogs (and cats) in need. They are both from Peru. They […]
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), one of the largest commercial banks in the world, expanded its presence in Latin America by launching operations in Panama on Friday. The new branch of the Chinese bank is the first of its kind in Panama, a country that established diplomatic relations with China in 2017, […]
Home to turtles, sharks and whales, the newly expanded Cordillera de Coiba zone has nine mountain ranges under the ocean’s surface, with some seamounts more than 3,000 meters tall. Panama has taken a giant leap forward in protecting its waters. The Central American country is rich in biodiversity but it is also one of the […]
Migrants crossing from northwest Colombia into Panama through the Darién forest are being robbed, assaulted, raped, even killed. MSF teams are providing medical and mental health care to people in Panama who have made it through forest. MSF calls on Panama and Colombia to establish safe migration routes between the two countries to ensure people’s […]
Back in 2013, I reported on this scam regarding COACECSS or Social Security Employees Savings and Credit Cooperative Fund where a number of foreigners, some of whom preyed on Boquetenos at the Tuesday Market, sold 8.5% CDs and received huge commissions!! I got really tired of being accused of bad mouthing an upright institution that was […]
The migration crisis on the border between Colombia and Panama left between April and May at least seven people drowned, it was revealed here today. The National Border Service (Senafront) found three other bodies floating in the Marraganti river last Sunday, in the middle of the Darien jungle, who presumably perished by immersion while […]
Panama Metro tenders engineering services for the design, supply, assembly and installation, testing and commissioning of the integrated railway system for the extension to Villa Zaita and integration with the existing Line 1. Panama Government Purchase 2021-2-80-0-08-LP-003842: “As per the scope of each line item the Contractor shall design, supply and install all required Integrated Rail System elements […]
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Panama will reduce electricity prices with the transformation of the energy matrix supported by clean energy and policies for the sector, local media reported. President Laurentino Cortizo presented the ‘Strategy for the comprehensive development of the electricity sector’ during a visit he made to an electrical substation in the northern Panamanian province of Colon. […]
By Todd Bensman as published June 2, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies A record 10,000 so-called ‘extra-continental’ migrants from around the world poured through the notoriously untamed Darian Gap jungle passage between Colombia and Panama, bound for the American border, during just in the single month of May, according to two journalists and a US […]