Dreams Reopens Panama All-Inclusive Resort


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AMResorts’ Dreams brand has reopened its Panama resort, Caribbean Journal has learned. The Dreams Playa Bonita Panama is once again open and accepting guests, following more than a year of closure amid the pandemic. The resort is Apple Leisure Group’s only property in Panama, with a total of 307 rooms and suites set across 11 towers. Dining […]

May 25, 2021

Panama Closes Its Land, Sea and River Borders With Colombia


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The Government of Panama announced this past Wednesday the closure of its land, sea and river borders with Colombia. “The National Government has determined to temporarily suspend the entry into the national territory, by land, sea and river, of any person coming from the border with the Republic of Colombia, as of May 20th, 2021,” says a statement […]

May 25, 2021

EFE photographer wins Panama journalism award


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EFE news agency photographer Bienvenido Velasco was on Thursday recognized at Panama’s National Journalism Awards 2021 for an image he took of two migrants of thousands that transit the country on their way to North America. “The Path of Immigration in Darien” won the Best Journalistic Photography category in the Forum of Journalists’ virtual award […]

May 25, 2021

How They Got Here: Panama


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They came from all over, hoping to get rich, 300,000 of them between 1848 and 1855, changing California forever. Word of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in January of 1848 (“The Gold Bug,” Dec. 3, 2020) got out slowly, and most of the prospectors that first year — a few thousand at most […]

May 25, 2021

British Embassy Panama: call for bids 2021 – 2022


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UK Government The British Embassy Panama is now accepting applications from not-for-profit, civil society and multilateral organisations for project proposals that directly support the following thematic areas: open societies (democracy, human rights, media freedom) COVID-19, vaccines, recovery and health security climate and biodiversity Background The International Programme (IP) of the United Kingdom was launched in […]

May 25, 2021

Panama rules out Chinese, Russian Covid-19 vaccines


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One down, one to go.  Pfizer Vax now in Chiriqui!! Dr. Eduardo Ortega, advisor for the Vaccine Research Center in Panama, ruled out the use of Chinese and Russian vaccines against Covid-19 due to shortage of immediate availability.   In statements to the television news Telemetro Reporta, Dr. Ortega said that China and Russia on […]

May 25, 2021

Panama”s catastrophic mining deals


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What happened with the Molejón mine, which was under the responsibility of Minera Petaquilla, thanks to a law contract granted in the administration of Ernesto Pérez Balladares (1994-1999), obliges the country to make a thorough review of the concessions for this activity. It was precisely a PRD government that signed the contract with the mining company, […]

May 18, 2021

Panama’s hotels to implement use of solar thermal energy


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Panama will install one million square meters of solar thermal technology in its hotels by 2050, in order to reduce Carbon Dioxide (C02) emissions into the atmosphere, it was revealed on Friday.   According to the Panamanian Association of Hotels (APATEL), the initiative is part of the project carried out by Termosolar Panama through an […]

May 18, 2021