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 […]
Local authorities announced plans to build in the province of Colon the Gatun Generating Station, an energy complex that will operate with liquefied natural gas and will require a $1 billion investment. The morning of June 1, President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen explained that this project will require a foreign investment from Group Energy Gas Panama, a consortium formed by InterEnergy […]
Panama, which accumulates 381,122 cases and 6,389 deaths due to Covid-19, is proportionally the fourth country in the Americas with more doses of vaccines applied against the coronavirus, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) said Friday, citing data from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). “According to official data published by Our World in Data, Panama […]
Watch the report here Panama’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Erika Mouynes discusses the government’s Covid-19 vaccines rollout, the outlook for the economy, migration issues, and financial markets. She speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia.” (Source: Bloomberg) Get Vaccinated and stay safe!!
Memorial Day is a day set apart for America to remember the fallen soldiers who have fought for the country’s freedom. In the village, the day is celebrated with an annual parade. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no parade held last year. With the world slowly working to open itself back […]