Solar Steel, a division of Gonvarri Steel Services, will supply 45.6MW of its TracSmart Single-Axis trackers for a PV project located in David, in the state of Chiriquí, Panama. The PV project is divided into four phases of 11.4MW, with each segment tabbed for an expected completion date by mid-2018. TracSmart’s self-powered and wireless trackers […]
On March 10, 1970, when Kurboon Idliev was 23 years old, Soviet helicopters landed in the remote Yaghnob Valley in northwest Tajikistan and forcibly removed every person from their house. “They transferred us to the lower flatlands to work on cotton plantations. Those who resisted were killed,” he recalls now. It would be 47 years […]
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Panamanian authorities seized 84.6 tons of illicit drugs in 2017, setting a record in drug confiscation, government agencies said on Wednesday. The Ministry of Public Security, National Aeronaval Service, the National Border Service and the Police Department unveiled the figure at a press conference, saying international cooperation was key to successfully combating drug trafficking. A […]
Honduran President Orlando Hernandez and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO) Just two days after the president of Guatemala made history as the first Central American leader to announce his decision to relocate his nation’s embassy to Jerusalem, Honduras and Panama are following suit. Israel and Honduras signed a declaration on bilateral […]
Elida Moreno reports for Reuters of the extradition of Roberto Borge, a former state governor for Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to Mexican authorities to face corruption charges. Roberto Borge, who was governor of the state of Quintana Roo from 2010 to 2016, was arrested in Panama City in June as he was preparing to […]
The union of vehicle dealers in Panama expects stability in sales of new cars next year, after the year 2017 showed deceleration with respect to the previous year. Laestrella.com.pa reports that “…The executive explained in an interview with Xinhua that Panama should not expect to see a greater fall in 2018 than in 2017, following […]
From January to October 2017, tourist spending grew by only 1.6% compared to the same period in 2016, significantly lower than the 13% recorded between 2015 and 2016. According to figures from the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, during the first ten months of the year tourists who arrived in the country […]
The Ministry of Environment has announced that using IADB funds, the infrastructure of four protected areas in the provinces of Veraguas, Colón and Chiriquí will be renovated. According to the Environment Minister, Emilio Sempris, most of the funds will be invested in the Coiba de Veraguas National Park, which will be allocated about $27 million […]
This is a very scary but true story of a land grabber here in Panama and the threats to the region caused by exploitation of our natural resources. The road being opened through the mountains of Veraguas was planned in the mid 1970s, during the regime of General Omar Torrijos. The commander of a country […]