Panama Resumes Oil Exploration


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This image upsets me for the damage that oil companies have routinely done throughout the Americas.  We have huge gold and copper deposits here and we do not need a fragile old world forest ruined if this takes place. VOTE NO TO OIL EXPLORATION IN PANAMA!! The companies GX Technology Corporation, Spectrum Geo Inc. and Geoex […]

April 11, 2017

Growth in Business Incorporations in Panama


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Grow Panama Grow!! 34 thousand new companies started operations in 2016, recording an 8% increase over 2015. The sector in which the most Operating Notices were recorded is retail and tourism, which includes restaurants, bars, beauty salons and supermarkets, among others. Anpanama.com reports that “…According to the statistics, from January 1 to March 22, 8,267 Operating Notices were […]

April 11, 2017

Panama: $100 Million for Banana Production


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The Comptroller has confirmed the contract for Del Monte to invest $100 million in a maximum period of seven years, projecting an average productivity of 2,725 fruit boxes per hectare per year. The contract was endorsed by the Comptroller’s Office, but requires the approval of the Cabinet and the approval of the National Assembly to become contract-law.  […]

April 11, 2017

Drones in Agriculture


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This is being done around the world and is especially cost effective in smaller farms. A proposal has been made in Nicaragua to make the rules on the use of drones more flexible in order to reduce costs in activities such as spraying of agricultural plantations. According estimates by UPANIC, up to $40 per acre […]

April 11, 2017

Community


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The Ruby McKenzie Clinic. Since 2005, Amigos de Animales has spayed or neutered over 12,000 animals. On Tuesday April 4, Amigos de Animales honored its founder, Ruby McKenzie, with a plaque that designates our sterilization clinic as The Ruby McKenzie Clinic. Since 2005, Amigos de Animales has spayed or neutered over 12,000 animals, thereby making Boquete […]

April 11, 2017

Panama: Six Offers in $17 million Highway Tender


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Between $15 million and $17 million are the range of the six offers submitted by the consortia in the tender to rehabilitate a 42 kilometer stretch of road from Las Tablas -Pedasí in Los Santos. From statement issued by the Ministry of Public Works in Panama: The Ministry of Public Works (MOP) held the Act for the Best […]

April 11, 2017

Panama, Taiwan sign agreement for naval interceptor craft


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Panama and Taiwan have signed an agreement for the latter’s donation of an Interceptor 1102 platform for the Central American country, Panama’s Ministry of Public Security (Ministerio de Seguridad Pública: MINSEG) reported on 29 March. The Interceptor will be utilized by the National Naval Air Service (Servicio Nacional Aeronaval: SENAN) to patrol Colón province, in […]

April 11, 2017

$80 million in Hotel Investment in Las Perlas


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Ground has been broken and Ritz Carlton will add another great Reserve hotel in the Las Perlas Islands of Panama.  I have been to the island and it is magical. It will have 86 rooms in 28 villas and private residences, and will be ready in 2019. With more than 80 million dollar investment, work […]

April 11, 2017