Transgender women will from this year be able to compete in Panama’s national beauty contest, the organizers said on Monday. The Señorita Panama pageant, which sends a contestant from the Central American country to the international Miss Universe competition, said transgender women who have completed legal and medical processes would be welcome to compete. “Following […]
Panama has authorized the purchase of nearly 2 million shots of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for close to $24 million, adding to earlier agreements to buy 3 million doses from the U.S. drugmaker, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Panama has so far received three shipments of the Pfizer Inc /BioNtech vaccine with nearly 158,000 doses, […]
Australian couple have decided to sail home from Panama, in Central America Jake Shepherd and Tamara Ilic have tried to fly home on numerous occasions Their flights have been cancelled and the couple say they are at their wit’s end Neither of them have ever sailed before and the voyage will take four months An […]
A staff member works at a plant of beef exporter and meatpacker Carnes de Cocle in Las Tablas of Los Santos, Panama, June 22, 2019.(Photo: Xinhua) Panama has much potential to boost exports to China, its main trade partner, this year, as the country has signed several sanitary protocols with China. More exports are […]
Hyatt’s Unbound Collection, one of the company’s independent hotel collections, is expanding to Panama, Caribbean Journal has learned. The company will be debuting its first Unbound Collection by Hyatt in Panama City with the Hotel La Compañia. The new property is part of the company’s broader hotel pipeline for the Unbound brand. It’s slated for […]
Panama registered in the last week the lowest positivity percentages in the Covid-19 pandemic so far. On Friday it was 5.1%; on Thursday, 6.3%, and Wednesday, 7.1%. In July and December 2020, when there were spikes in Covid-19 cases nationwide, the percentages were around 30%. For the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), when the percentage […]
Finca Dos Jefes covers about seven acres located in El Salto above the town of Boquete. The mission of the staff–-owners Rich Lipner and Dee Harris (the Dos Jefes in the name), production manager Amy Pescod, and foreman Lazaro Cedeño– is to produce coffee that is sustainable to both the coffee and the workers who […]
So after coming to Panama in 2006, I decided to retire from over 30 years in commercial real estate in Miami, Florida. While I had completed over $1 B in transactions, I saw a bubble building rapidly and decided after 3 recessions, I might skip the one coming. So we moved here permanently the following […]
Chile has administered more than 3.1m vaccine doses in just three weeks to emerge as a global leader in Covid-19 inoculations, trailing only the US, UK, UAE and Israel in vaccination doses per 100 people. Having initially endured heavy criticism over its handling of pandemic restrictions, Chile has moved quickly to secure vaccines from a range […]
Construction of a veterinary clinic to provide 24-hour care for wildlife by the Ministry of the Environment (MiAmbiente), could be completed this year but faces the challenge of state paperwork. A wildlife veterinarian from the Biodiversity Department of MiAmbiente explained to TVN2. that the project is in the Administration and Finance Section. The funds for the […]