Xose Lorenzo is in the middle of explaining how he got the seven stitches on his scalp and the eight on his leg when a call rings out from the other side of the rocks. A pack of men and women in wet suits aim a chorus of shouts and whistles and waving arms at […]
Panama’s president says his country will begin requiring an entry visa for Venezuelans beginning in October as their homeland slips deeper into crisis. President Juan Carlos Varela said Tuesday that recent events in Venezuela forced him to act to preserve Panama’s security, economy and job sources. Varela also said Panama will regularize the status of […]
James Macpherson, a structural engineer with VHBs Bedford office, recently spent a week stationed in Hato Rincon, a remote mountain community in western Panama that is home to the indigenous Ngobe-Bugle people, as part of a program led by Engineers Without Borders, or EWB. Under EWB, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of […]
The Panama Canal this week welcomed the CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the largest-capacity vessel to ever transit the expanded locks. The Neopanamax containership, which began its voyage from Asia, will be making stops along the U.S. East Coast. The CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt has a total 20 ft. equivalent unit (TEU) allowance of 14,855 and […]
In Costa Rica a hotel entrepreneur is confronting the Solis government, after it warned that companies carrying out commercial promotions in alliance with Uber will be penalized. WOW, what stupidity! Here is an editorial on the subject. Can it be that businesspeople in Costa Rica now have to consult the government to validate their marketing plans […]
The mayoral office of the capital has announced that the World Bank will be financing a feasibility study to expand the coastal strip to the east of the city. The goal of Mayor Jose Isabel Blandon is to complete the feasibility analysis process and leave the technical reports to the next administration, in order to […]
Looks like our road to Bocas is going to be fixed at last. The Ministry of Public Works in Panama is putting out to tender renovation of 98 kilometers of roads in the provinces of Chiriqu and Bocas del Toro. Panama Government Purchase 2017-0-09-0-99-LV-005150: “The project consists of a 98 kilometer length of the […]
The US company Duty Free America has been awarded two of the three blocks of the commercial area in Terminal 1 of the Panamanian airport, and the third went to Attenza Duty Free, linked to Motta International. At the beginning of August four companies presented their proposals in the tender to operate duty free commercial […]
Ithaca Capital Partners, which has a Miami office, acquired 202 of the 369 units for an undisclosed price. Bondholders with delinquent debt on the 70-story Trump International Hotel, Panama, sold most of the units at the condo hotel, a high-rise landmark in Panamas capital city. Investment firm Ithaca Capital Partners paid an undisclosed price for […]
Recently the photographer Rose Marie Cromwell went to Panama City to photograph vendors, shoppers and people passing time on Avenida Central, a busy street near Panama old town, Casco Viejo. For years, Avenida Central has been a place for the average resident to run errands. Pausing there to observe the place and its people, you […]