The evaluation committee has completed a review of the nine proposals submitted by the prequalified companies for the design and construction project for Metro Line 3. From a statement issued by Metro de Panama: The Evaluation Commission, which is responsible for reviewing the technical proposal for the international prequalification of the “Design Engineering Project, Construction of Civil Works, […]
I can remember living in Miami after Andrew hit us hard and all seemed lost. Slowly we came back and people were stopping at intersections where lights were down and motioning for their neighbor to go first. People gave away ice if they had it and we held huge neighborhood cook outs as the frozen […]
Curt Anderson, an AP Legal Affairs Writer posted the story of Judge Edwin Torres’s decision to recommend extradition of former Panama president Ricardo Martinelli. A former president of Panama should be extradited from the U.S. to face political espionage and embezzlement charges in his home country, a Miami federal judge ruled Thursday. The […]
Xose Lorenzo is in the middle of explaining how he got the seven stitches on his scalp and the eight on his leg when a call rings out from the other side of the rocks. A pack of men and women in wet suits aim a chorus of shouts and whistles and waving arms at […]
Panama’s president says his country will begin requiring an entry visa for Venezuelans beginning in October as their homeland slips deeper into crisis. President Juan Carlos Varela said Tuesday that recent events in Venezuela forced him to act to preserve Panama’s security, economy and job sources. Varela also said Panama will regularize the status of […]
James Macpherson, a structural engineer with VHBs Bedford office, recently spent a week stationed in Hato Rincon, a remote mountain community in western Panama that is home to the indigenous Ngobe-Bugle people, as part of a program led by Engineers Without Borders, or EWB. Under EWB, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of […]
The Panama Canal this week welcomed the CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the largest-capacity vessel to ever transit the expanded locks. The Neopanamax containership, which began its voyage from Asia, will be making stops along the U.S. East Coast. The CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt has a total 20 ft. equivalent unit (TEU) allowance of 14,855 and […]
In Costa Rica a hotel entrepreneur is confronting the Solis government, after it warned that companies carrying out commercial promotions in alliance with Uber will be penalized. WOW, what stupidity! Here is an editorial on the subject. Can it be that businesspeople in Costa Rica now have to consult the government to validate their marketing plans […]
The mayoral office of the capital has announced that the World Bank will be financing a feasibility study to expand the coastal strip to the east of the city. The goal of Mayor Jose Isabel Blandon is to complete the feasibility analysis process and leave the technical reports to the next administration, in order to […]
Looks like our road to Bocas is going to be fixed at last. The Ministry of Public Works in Panama is putting out to tender renovation of 98 kilometers of roads in the provinces of Chiriqu and Bocas del Toro. Panama Government Purchase 2017-0-09-0-99-LV-005150: “The project consists of a 98 kilometer length of the […]