Panama is positioned as an ideal destination for meetings and congresses at an international level. With only one year of operation, the Panama Convention Center doubled the estimates of visitors and scheduled events. “We had a planned goal of 6 events and 48,150 visitors. We are going to close with a forecast of 60 events […]
The sea turtles of Punta Chame, a peninsula of Panama that juts into the Pacific Ocean, face an existential threat similar to the rhino and pangolin: human superstition. The eggs of the protected olive ridley turtle, illegally harvested from the beach, are sold door to door in town for 75 cents to $1 each for […]
The Deputy Minister of Finance, Jorge Luis Almengor, said that Panama is a carbon-negative country, one of the few countries in the world that has this characteristic. This approach was made at the conference on sustainable development in Central America and Panama organized by the Spanish news agency EFE to commemorate his 50 years of […]
The government of Panama set on Monday a deadline for Canada’s First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) to ink a long-awaited contract that allows the company to keep running its flagship Cobre Panama copper mine. The Vancouver-based miner and the Ministry of Commerce and Industries of Panama began negotiations to renew the contract for the mine […]