On August 9, International Day of Indigenous Peoples, the Panama Tourism Authority (ATP) presented to Panama’s National Council for the Integral Development of Indigenous Peoples (CONDIPI) the proposal of creating a new tourist circuit called “Panama Indígena” (Indigenous Panama), developed with the recently formed National Chamber of Tourism Indigenous (CANTURI). The Indigenous Panama tourist circuit highlights Panama’s pre-Columbian cultures, as well as the […]

When the U.S. flooded Panama’s Chagres River valley in 1910, Gatun Lake held the record as the world’s biggest reservoir. This record was surpassed, but researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), who are now studying invading lizards on the tiny islands that dot the lake, discovered that islands with native lizards act as […]

John Steinbeck wrote Log From the Sea of Cortez in 1951, his chronicle of an expedition with marine biologist Ed Ricketts along the coast of California and Mexico. Ricketts named several of the many new marine animals they found after Steinbeck, his friend and patron of the expedition. On a similar expedition in February 2019 […]

In August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, an engineering feat that would transform world trade. It is one of the two most strategic artificial waterways in the world, the other being the Suez Canal. In the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and […]

Traditional Panama meals have influences from Spain, Africa and the indigenous Native American population. Most of the dishes there have similarities with foods of other countries that were also in “Gran Colombia,” like Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. To get a feel of real Panamanian flavors, you should try these dishes. Arroz con pollo This is must try rice recipe […]

Travelling southbound from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, LNG carrier SK Resolute made the 10,000th Neopanamax transit of the expanded Panama Canal since its opening in June 2016 Growth in LNG shipping traffic has grown hand-in-hand with US LNG exports, which began in 2016. With significant reductions in voyage time, the expanded canal offers a more […]

The Panama Canal is seeing signs of a rebound in global trade as ship transits recover from the depressed levels caused by the pandemic. Total transits through the waterway rose to 933 in July, from 845 in June, which was the fewest since the canal opened an expanded set of locks four years ago to […]

According to ALNNEWS, after five months of restrictions to control the advance of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Controlled Operations Center for the Interconnection of International Aviation began operating on Aug. 14, at the Panamanian Tocumen International Airport. The Panamanian government put into force on July 31 a decree that allows the operation of limited commercial flights […]

Panama will from Monday allow work to resume on some infrastructure projects and permit more businesses to re-open from coronavirus lockdown, including retailers, car dealers, beauty salons and barber shops, the government said on Tuesday. Health Minister Luis Sucre said officials had made the decision on the grounds the reproduction rate of the novel coronavirus […]

Panama Health and security personnel are prime targets for the coronavirus with a report from the Pan American Health Organization revealing that between March 9 and August at least 5,234 employees have been affected. 3,014 infections were confirmed among personnel working at the Gorgas Memorial Institute and the hospitals of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) […]