The dismantling of 14 organizations dedicated to human trafficking this year has allowed to rescue about 150 victims in the country, the Ministry of Security (MINSEG) of Panama informed. Sexual and labor exploitation, and human organ trafficking, are the most common crimes found in those operations, although the former is the majority, Rodrigo Garcia, […]
Jan de Nul and China Harbour Engineering Co. (CHEC) have won a contract worth $165 million to design and build a new cruise terminal on Panama City’s Amador Causeway. The firms’ joint venture, Cruceros del Pacifico, will complete the terminal within two years, according to industry media. The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) envisions the new […]
Travelers who want to transit the lakes and locks of the Panama Canal will have eight Holland America Line ships and 19 cruises to choose from between fall 2017 through spring 2018. In addition to the full transits, ms Zuiderdam will offer two Southern Caribbean & Panama Canal Sunfarer itineraries that feature a partial […]
Like a lot of other expats, Susie and I chose to live in a small town in Panama rather than the City. The joy of riding down main street calling out to friends on a first name basis, both foreigners and Panamanians alike, is something you can tell people about but you need to be […]
Susie and I were in Panama City last week getting her Panama ID card and we decided to stay over night in Casco. Our choice was to stay at The American Trade Hotel. A TripAdvisor writer described this place best. “Stunning is the wrong word for the grace and beauty of this hotel. Sitting in […]
Venezuela Vice President Tareck El Aissami is much wealthier than senior United States officials originally thought, according to once inside source who spoke with EFE. It turns out that El Aissami has hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. US officials confirmed the amount after freezing El Aissami’s assets as part of sanctions levied against him for […]
The United States has canceled the visa of Colombian Senator Bernardo Miguel “Ñoño” Elías, a member of the country’s incumbent “U” party led by President Juan Manuel Santos.Officials reportedly canceled the visa due to his alleged links to the Odebrecht corruption case. The scandal has swept across Latin America, as investors continue to uncover that the Brazil-based construction company bribed […]
Karina Martin reports in the PanAmPost where Bolivian President Evo Morales admitted this week that he knows Rómer Gutiérrez, a member of his party Movement for Socialism who was detained in Brazil after officials found him with almost 100 kilos of cocaine. “I have seen, and I know (Rómer Guitérrez),” Morales said, but clarified he does not know about […]
As reported in Reuters, former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to release him from a Florida jail while he fights Panama’s efforts to extradite him. Martinelli was jailed last month in a federal detention center in Miami after Panama asked the United States to extradite him on charges that he […]
The Panama Canal’s enlargement has enabled it to win back most of the all-water traffic between Asia and the US East Coast that it had lost to the rival Suez Canal route. The Central American waterway’s share of the total headhaul capacity on the route has risen to 74 percent, the level it had […]