$20 million Air Tickets Tender


News from Panama

In Panama, a tender is being launched for the supply of international and national air tickets for State entities for a period of two years. Panama Government Purchase 2018-1-27-0-99-LM-001916: “The lines to be offered correspond to regions or geographic zones. The proponents in the Economic Proposal Form must indicate in which lines they wish to participate. […]

July 10, 2018

Ironworker Local 516 member helped build a bridge in Panama


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Patrick Montgomery, an apprentice with Ironworkers Shopmen’s Local 516 employed at Fought & Company, volunteered to travel to El Macho, Panama, March 16-30, to help build a pedestrian bridge under a program organized by Bridges to Prosperity. B2P is a U.S. nonprofit that partners with local governments around the world to connect impoverished rural populations […]

July 10, 2018

Standard & Poor’s Improves Panama Canal’s Outlook to Positive


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S&P Global adjusted their ranking on Panamanian infrastructure, including the Panama Canal Authority, from ‘stable’ to ‘positive’ Panama City, Panama – Two years after the inauguration of the Expanded Panama Canal, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings revised its outlook on the Panama Canal from ‘stable’ to ‘positive’ – demonstrating the global impact of the […]

July 10, 2018

Traveled in a Canoe Through the Bolivian Amazon


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It was a stifling spring morning in northern Bolivia and the Rio Negro, a narrow river in the Amazon, threaded its way sluggishly between tall stands of trees. Clouds of butterflies—orange, green, and white—lifted off from the riverbanks to float like confetti around our ten-foot canoe. The sound of the outboard motor echoed off the […]

July 10, 2018

World Youth Day Panama Official Music Video


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Six months ahead of World Youth Day 2019 in Panama, organizers have released an official music video for the anthem. The catchy melody can be sung in the encounter’s five official languages: Spanish, English, Italian, French and Portuguese. Pope Francis will be here from January 23 to the 27th next year along with hundreds of […]

July 10, 2018

JW Marriott To Operate In Panama City, Panama


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The Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama is soon becoming a JW Marriott hotel. The change has come after an extensive legal battle in the court systems of both the United States and Panama. The hotel will be officially branded as JW Marriott property. The owner of the hotel wanted to distance itself from the […]

July 5, 2018

Finding strength in his Panamanian roots


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Donson Jeryco Allen Cook Gallardo is a real Renaissance man. The Moscow High School graduate, who was known to his classmates as Jack Cook, is a classical pianist, all-star track athlete with goals of competing in the 2020 Olympics for Panama and a recent bachelor’s recipient in biology. He will depart Sunday for Miami, where […]

July 5, 2018

Cruising the Panama Canal


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Ala Michalka writes for Conde Nast Traveler. The sun was about to set, and my fingers were sticky with pineapple and mango as I boarded a Zodiac to return to our yacht, moored a few hundred yards off the Costa Rican coast. I’d been smuggling fruit from the cooler all day during our expedition into […]

July 5, 2018

Chinese to Build Bridge Over the Canal


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The Chinese certainly know how to build among many things bridges, and I am glad to see that  Panama has awarded more contracts to them. After two proposals were disqualified and another participant withdrew, the consortium formed by two Chinese state construction companies won the tender to design and build the fourth bridge over the Panama […]

July 5, 2018