The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service is accepting applications from U.S. exporters for a regional trade mission to Panama from March 19-23, 2023. “Panama is the economic, financial, and logistics and transport hub for Central America and this trade mission will provide us with an exciting opportunity to expand our growing presence across […]
In the middle of a jungle in Panama, you might come across an indigenous community’s rural village. Although indigenous communities greatly vary across Panama, what is immediately noticeable is their shared respect for nature and the environment. Indigenous communities in Panama play a significant role in sustaining the diversity of the cultural and biological landscape. […]
In an official communiqué, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that this territory has been a world heritage site since 1981, for which it must be provided with adequate protection, efficient management and the preservation of its integrity. In this sense, it urged to safeguard the flora and fauna species in the entire area, especially […]
Colombian researcher María Camila Vallejo-Pareja is using fossil frogs from millions of years ago in order to understand the form and distribution of the vast diversity of frogs found in Central America today. Vallejo-Pareja, who is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of […]
Panama’s role as a sophisticated drug trafficking hub, not a mere cocaine transit point, was revealed when the country was named the logistical center for the recently dismantled “Super Cartel.” In November, 49 people were arrested in Dubai, Spain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands for helping a so-called super cartel of leading Irish, Italian, Bosnian, […]
The regional office of the World Federation of Trade Unions sent a letter to the president of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, warning about judicial abuses against union leaders, it was announced today. In a communiqué of the National Workers Central of Panama (CNTP), it was specified that in the missive subscribed in Havana (Cuba), the labor movement […]
These are the Clinical Hospital, Surgical Hospital and the Critical Patient Care Center. The fourth phase of the City of Health was delivered this Friday to the Social Security Fund (CSS). These are the Clinical Hospital, Surgical Hospital and the Critical Patient Care Center, which are within 80,000 square meters. Each of the infrastructures is […]
A Panamanian court ordered on Friday to bring former president Ricardo Martinelli to trial for alleged money laundering in the purchase of a publishing house, the second trial he will face in 2023. Judge Baloisa Marquínez ordered Martinelli (2009-2014) to stand trial, arguing that the funds used to buy in 2010 the publishing company Epasa […]
Hyatt’s new hotel in Panama has completed the final phase of what has been a seven-year project. The new Hotel La Compañía, set in the charming Casco Viejo quarter of Panama City, has completed its “American Wing,” including four of the hotel’s food and beverage outlets. That includes American Bazaar, Capella, Luigi’s, and Hari’s; Hyatt […]
Panama’s government has ordered First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) to halt operations at its Cobre Panama copper mine after it failed to agree on the terms for a new contract with the Canadian miner. The move, unusual among Latin American countries, came after First Quantum missed a Wednesday night deadline to ink a new royalty […]