Reuters reports that the two sons of former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli were paid $49 million by Brazilian engineering company Odebrecht through a network of shell companies, Panama’s prosecutors office said on Thursday. The two sons, whose whereabouts are unknown, were paid to facilitate paperwork for contracts that the company had won, prosecutors said in […]
U.S.-based Lindblad Expeditions has signed an agreement with Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein to build what Ulstein describes as the world’s foremost expedition cruise ship. Lindblad Expeditions is an expedition travel company that works in partnership with National Geographic. It will be the first polar newbuild in the Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic fleet. The new vessel will be […]
Soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, deployed to San Jose Island, Panama, to provide security for the destruction of chemical munitions Sep. 3, 2017. The United States leased San Jose Island in the 1940’s to conduct chemical munitions testing. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical […]
NAC Foundation, LLC – the creator of the newly launched digital currency, AML BitCoin, – announced today that it has been in extensive discussions with the governmental and private sector authorities in Panama to integrate the AML Bitcoin and its patent-pending anti-money laundering and know-your-customer technologies into the financial and payment infrastructure of key Panamanian […]
The Caribbean Princess has sailed the expanded Panama Canal, the first Neopanamax cruise ship to do so.Princess Cruises was the first cruise line to take guests through the Panama Canal in 1967. Marking the 50th anniversary in 2017, Caribbean Princess took more than 3,000 guests through the Agua Clara locks on the Atlantic side […]
Reuters reports that Panamas’ President Juan Carlos Varela will travel to China to meet with his counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday, the first official visit by a Panamanian leader to the Asian country coming five months after the nations established diplomatic relations. The bilateral meeting will serve to establish a new economic, trade, tourist […]
Panama has become one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Ambassador of Panama to Viet Nam, Servio S Samudio B, on Tuesday shared with the Viet Nam News an article to mark the National Day of the Republic of Panama. On November 3, the country celebrated 114 years since it proclaimed separation […]
Zubaida Tariq has been answering questions for over two decades. Watch her beloved cooking show and she’ll tell you how to cook everything from biryani to liver, or a summertime dessert of kulfi. Call in, and she’ll tell you how to strengthen your hair (vegetables in your diet), how to cure diaper rash (corn flour), […]
A group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students will travel to Panama this winter to assist in developing a market plan for a business there and renovate a cottage. John Kalu Osiri, the director of International Business Program, developed the idea that students on the trip would work on developing a marketing plan to assist […]
Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor of SupplyChain discusses the continued impact of the expanded Panama Canal. The impact of the expanded Panama Canal was also apparent in many other ports along the U.S. East Coast, which were able to welcome the larger Neopanamax ships from the Canal and saw increased growth. Following the close of its […]