Great Surfing Video


News from Panama

Put aside your bias for a moment. Forget that your 5’10”, 28-liter thruster is the best and only tool to use in the ocean. Simply consider style. The art of making the difficult look pristinely easy. If you do that, then you could watch Keahi de Aboitiz and appreciate his effortless grace in heaving waves – […]

July 6, 2020

Rescue Off Panama Results in $290M Drug Bust


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On June 8, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Vigilant helped save a vessel from flooding – and discovered about $290 million in cocaine in the process. The intercept began when a Coast Guard HC-130 SAR aircraft spotted a suspect motor vessel traveling northeast of Panama. The Vigilant’s crew launched a small boat with a law enforcement […]

July 6, 2020

Shopping Centers Forced to Reinvent Themselves


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Using technology to measure the flow of visitors, reducing the furniture available in the food courts and implementing product deliveries in the parking area are part of the changes that the region’s shopping centers must apply in this new reality. Because of the threat of the spread of covid-19, since mid-March in Central America, the authorities agreed […]

July 6, 2020

Retail: Challenges of the On-Site Experience


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Given the gradual return to physical stores, customers will appreciate it if businesses disinfect stores several times a day, if other visitors are required to clean their hands before entering, and if employees use protective equipment at all times. Although in this context of the spread of covid-19, digital channels have gained ground in Central American markets and […]

July 6, 2020

Panamanians, Migrants Closer to Health Services, Better Coexistence


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The health promoters are community-based workers who provide orientation and information on health promotion and disease prevention topics, and who refer cases for health care. © IOM The project was called “Strengthening Communities for Primary Health Care,” implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in close coordination with the Ministry of Health (MoH) of […]

July 6, 2020

Commercial Flights: Central America Excluded from the List


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As part of the reopening of borders and the revival of commercial flights, the European Union did not include any country in the region in its initial list of markets authorized to resume commercial flights. Because of the covid-19 outbreak, commercial flights continue to be suspended in all Central American countries; however, it is expected that in the coming weeks restrictions […]

July 6, 2020

Early restart of flights from Panama in the clouds


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Don’t expect to see commercial airlines from 89 destinations arriving in or leaving  Panama anytime soon. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recommends that Latin American countries reactivate domestic flights as the first step to start the recovery of the airline industry in the region, which this year is estimated to lose some $18 billion […]

July 6, 2020