For those of you who still stand for your national anthem and the flag of your country, you will appreciate this video.  Thanks for the link Gilberto and watch this to the very end please.

It’s a very small cup: blue dotted with yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. But for Yelena, it holds a lot of history. It’s a reminder of almost thirty years’ labor, and of the day they ended in summer 2014, when an artillery shell landed on the bread factory where she’d worked all her […]

A proposal has been made to criminalize tax evasion in Panama, where, unlike other countries, it is only considered an administrative defect. In order to avoid going back on the gray list and improving compliance with international standards against money laundering and fiscal transparency, the Panamanian government has presented a comparative study on tax offenses […]

In Panama, $13 million were approved to sign lease agreements with landowners where Del Monte will reactivate banana production in Barú, Chiriquí. With the disbursement approved by the Cabinet Council, part of the contracts to lease farms may be signed so that Banapiña, a subsidiary of Del Monte, can start the process reactivating banana production […]

Gencom, a leading Miami-based international luxury hospitality and residential real estate investment and development firm, announces the acquisition of Andaz Costa Rica Resort at Peninsula Papagayo by a Gencom affiliate, Papagayo Partners Ltd., in conjunction with local real estate developer Sinergo Development Group S.A. Following the August 2016 purchase of the 1,400-acre Peninsula Papagayo and […]

An environmental impact study has been submitted for construction of a logistics complex in an approximate area of ??40 hectares in Arraiján, Panama. Data from the Interactive System “Construction in Central America”, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData, indicates that in July Corporación Regente, S.A. submitted an Environmental Impact Study (EIA) to the […]

The National Civil Protection System has recommended suspending permits for new real estate projects in San Miguelito and Panama, until the real impact of urban growth seen in the area has been determined. Due to increased incidents such as landslides and floods in Condado del Rey and surrounding areas, Panama’s National Civil Protection System (Sinaproc) […]

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Dr. Natalia Kanem of Panama to head the U.N. population agency. Kanem has been serving as acting executive director of the U.N. Population Fund since the sudden death in June of UNFPA chief Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin of Nigeria. She had been deputy executive director since July 2016. U.N. spokesman Stephane […]

Just as we are ready to open the new terminal, it was announced that the airport authorities are buying land and planning another runway and new terminal.  Panama will continue it’s role as the hub of the Americas. Panama City airport authorities have started negotiating to buy the land needed to build a third runway […]

Four consortiums made up of companies from China, Spain, Italy and South Korea have presented their proposals to design and build a fourth bridge over the Panama Canal. The timeframe for building the work has been estimated at 42 months, and the estimated investment is over $1 billion. This project aims to connect the areas of […]