As of Tuesday, June 6, Panamanians will no longer need a special visa to enter Canada, since the country is now part of the Electronic Travel Authorization Program, allowing citizens to travel to the country without a visa, as reported by the Panamanian Foreign Ministry. With the Electronic Travel Authorization (-eTA) Program, the management time […]
About 30 companies participated in the previous meeting and homologation on the basis of the prequalification of the project “Rehabilitation, Improvement and Maintenance of the West Pan-American Highway” (CPO), structured under the modality of Public-Private Association (APP), work estimated at a cost of US$300 million. Sources from the Ministry of Public Works reported during the […]
The Maritime Authority of Panama (AMP), reported that it issued the order to proceed to implement a new technological platform for the registration of ships with the intention of optimizing processes and facilitating access to information. The new technological platform that will use the Panamanian Ship Registry, is called the Maritime Procedures System and Electronic […]
An international paleontology research published in the prestigious scientific journal Biology Letters provides new information on the extinct cetacean fauna of odontocetes of Panama and the connectivity between the Caribbean and the Pacific during the late Miocene. The group that carried out the research on the Caribbean coast of Panama is made up of Aldo […]
Panama’s Geisha coffee sets new quality record Five of the 18 international judges from Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Bulgaria, and the United States gave their Geisha cups 100 points, The Geisha, luxury coffee set a new quality record among specialty coffees, with 96.50 points, in the XXVII International Tasting of the Best of […]
t the close of the IMEX Frankfurt 2023 fair, one of the most important fairs of meeting tourism, 17 participating Panamanian companies accompanied by the Tourism Promotion Fund (PROMTUR) Panama, reported business opportunities for US$5,477,900. During the event recently held in Germany, the delegation of tourism providers of Panama, which was made up of hotels, […]
In Panama, jaguars in fragmented territory have clashed with local ranchers and livestock. Now a National Geographic Explorer has a plan to turn the embattled species and ranchers into unlikely allies. What started as a leisurely walk through the rainforest has transformed into a punishing slog as the terrain grows more rugged and steep. At […]
In order to inform citizens, together with the productive sectors of the economy, about the lines of action of the Energy Transition Agenda, Panama approves the Communication Strategy for the Energy Transition after the National Secretariat of Energy (SNE) published in the Official Gazette Resolution No. °MIPRE-2023-0021773. The strategy also facilitates its reception at the […]
A total of 4.9 million tons of copper, whose unit price today is US$8,455.00, has exported Minera Panama for four years and its main buyers are China, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Germany. Cobre Panama celebrated the fourth anniversary of the start of copper concentrate exports from the international port of Punta Rincón in the […]
A total of 50 entrepreneurs whose business model focuses on hostels, tourist guides, restaurants, agrotourism experiences, among others, completed their training in the Re-Actívate Panama Tourism program, for the strengthening of tourism entrepreneurship and innovation in Pedasí, and the productive reactivation of the Azuero Peninsula. This training was divided into stages, the 50 entrepreneurs chosen […]