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 […]
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 […]
While Panama City has been flourishing into an affluent metropolis, schools in the countryside still suffer from severe lack of funding. Cut off from the capital, with poor infrastructure, these are often dark, rundown and without an outdoor space for kids to play. Surfer Bastian Barnbeck has taken things into his own hands. Founder of […]
Ever wonder why Panama cannot continue its high rate of growth after all the spending on the canal ran out. 35% of companies in Panama reported having difficulties filling job positions, mainly intermediate positions with a high level of training required. After our trip to Santiago Chile, I am really concerned for Panama if things […]
Panamanian Vice Minister of Public Security Jonattan Del Rosario doesn’t believe in shortcuts to guarantee security and defeat transnational criminal organizations, but vouches for interagency operations to weaken and combat them more effectively. State organizations’ joint and coordinated work, better equipped and trained public forces, and tougher laws to punish criminals and facilitate their prosecution […]
For the first time ever, Panama has been classified as a high-income nation—a country with a gross national income per capita of $12,055 or more—by the World Bank. The bank, which determines new thresholds for each category every July, also showed that Argentina gained the classification for only the second time since it began grouping […]
A group of Panamanian monkeys may have entered their own stone age, scientists said. A population of white-face capuchin monkeys living on the Panamanian island of Jicarón have been observed using stones to smash open nuts and shellfish, New Scientist reported Monday. Scientists first made the discovery in 2004, but returned to the island in […]
In just 12 months, the newly established diplomatic ties between China and Panama have seen progress “in all spheres,” Chinese Ambassador to Panama Wei Qiang has said. Wei made the remarks during an interview with Xinhua upon the first anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. Over the past year, China […]
Ships moving natural-gas and petroleum-product exports from the U.S. are the fastest-growing business for the Panama Canal, with annual revenue from tolls growing more than 20 times over the past two years. Liquefied-natural-gas shipments from U.S. energy producers in Texas took off in 2016, when the waterway expanded its locks, which allowed ships three times […]
Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela on Thursday invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to pay a return visit to his country to see the expanded Panama Canal. “I hope that you, Mr President, will be able to pay a visit to our country to see firsthand the Panama Canal and the country and get acquainted with […]