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Panama’s public services regulator Asep has granted additional time to Interconexión Colombia Panamá (ICP) to submit required documents for the planned power interconnection between the countries. ICP now has until March 2023 to file the approved environmental impact study for the link’s construction and operation. Under the last extension, the deadline had been September 2020, when the developer […]

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration will execute a non-reimbursable Technical Cooperation to carry out studies to identify the feasibility of developing the railway network of Line 5 of the Panama Subway. The non-reimbursable Technical Cooperation amounts to $630,000 and was recently approved by the Republic of Korea within the framework of the CABEI-Korea Sole […]

Ingeteam has obtained a new contract in Panama to carry out the operation and maintenance (O&M) tasks of the substation of the Penonomé Wind Farm, the first in Panama and one of the largest in Central America. Including AES Eólico Penonomé, which consists of 22 turbines and whose power is 55 megawatts, and which is […]

Saturday at 6 am, our team was gathered on Finca Cuatro Caminos, where our coffee mill, laboratory, and storage facility is located, to load 12 tons of coffee into a container bound for Japan. There were mixed emotions of both excitement and relief, as this container was initially scheduled to set sail in the summer […]

After seven years’ work, George Washington Goethals finished the Panama Canal in 1914, completing a task that stymied two other engineers. He commenced his first real engineering work as a lieutenant at the Vancouver Barracks, and performed many routine duties, including planning the headquarters building, designing the new post cemetery, mapping telegraph lines and creating […]

More than 35 tons of drugs have seized, in operations by units of the National Police, the National Aeronaval Service [Senan] and the National Border Service [Senafront], between January 1 and April 15, some 13 tons more than in the same period last year. Cocaine formed 61% of the seizures, followed by marijuana (21%). There […]

Among the 50 people are three former officials charged with the crime of “corruption of public servants”, which is punishable by 4 to 8 years in prison, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement in which the names of those involved are not disclosed. Panama Public Prosecutor’s Office said Monday that it requested the […]

The June 2017 recognition of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by the Panamanian government of Juan Carlos Varela set in motion an array of Chinese activities in Panama, as well as diplomatic changes in nearby El Salvador and the Dominican Republic—all of which grabbed the attention and concern of Washington. The election of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party’s (PRD) Laurentino Cortizo […]

Casco, my favorite part of Panama City. Big waves roll onto flat sandy beaches, coffee plantations dot lush mountainsides, and turquoise-blue coves border tropical islands. It might come as a surprise to some travelers, but all of these scenes play out in Panama — the Central American country that has long been known mostly for […]