Panama reached a promotion and marketing agreement with the Dutch airline KLM, with which an economic impact of about $66 million is expected for the country, announced the Panama Tourism Promotion Fund known as Promtur Panama. Through this agreement, which began in July and has an initial duration of 6 months, the airline will boost […]
Today we were notified, in the morning hours, of the team of lawyers who are going to participate in the hearing that it was suspended,” because “there was a lack of international assistance of notifications from people who are outside the country,” explained the Superior Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Edwin Juárez. For today, the Third Liquidator Court […]
Tropical Storm Bonnie became the second named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season on Friday, amping up to nearly 50 miles per hour before making landfall in southeastern Nicaragua late in the day. Bonnie further strengthened before making landfall this weekend near the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border, where tropical storm warnings were in effect, according to […]
The chairman of the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone), Yehya Zaki, signed June 13 a cooperation agreement with Giovanni Bruno Ferrari, general manager of the Colon Free Zone of the Panama Canal. The signing ceremony took place at the headquarters of the SCZone’s General Authority in Cairo. According to a press statement […]
Panama’s President Nito Cortizo announced as of July 11, the mandatory use of face masks in open and closed spaces will be lifted, with the exception of public and private health facilities and public transportation.
The La Niña climate phenomenon, which affects global temperatures and exacerbates droughts and floods, will probably continue for months and even until 2023, the United Nations (UN) warned yesterday, Friday. La Niña, which occurs in periods of between two and seven years, causes the large-scale cooling of surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial […]
In the coming days, the acquisition of Claro Panama by the company Cable & Wireless is expected to materialize, announced Betzalel Kenigsztein, CEO and general manager of +Móvil. “We already have everything ready, we are just waiting for the seal that we have the approval to acquire and move to control of the company. In […]
The President of Panama Laurentino Cortizo said on Monday that he has blood cancer, although the 69-year-old said he feels well and is in “good spirits.” In late May, Cortizo’s doctors detected “a decrease in hemoglobin and white blood cell count” during routine testing, the president said in a televised statement. Specialists recommended that a […]
On Wednesday, June 22, 2022, operations and commissioned passenger processing began within the new Terminal 2 of Tocumen International Airport. The Panamanian airline Copa Airlines is the first to operate from this new terminal 2. Passengers praised the new infrastructure. The former president of the Republic, Martín Torrijos, was the first Panamanian diplomat to leave […]
A Panamanian judge acquitted thirty-nine people in a money laundering case on Thursday. Among those acquitted were lawyers Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca, who were key figures in the Panama Papers case. Both Mossack and Fonseca have Panamanian citizenship. Mossack and Fonseca, faced charges of money laundering and creating offshore accounts that were used by […]