Panama- Influencer’ contracts nullified


News from Panama

Panama’s Transparency and Access to Information Authority (Antai) has recommended that the  Government nullify the contracts of Paul McDonald and Precilla Delany two so-called “influencers” who worked in institutions of the Panamanian State. In other cases of insiders paid for  no-show jobs the investigation was ordered to be closed as  those involved no longer work in the National Assembly […]

October 19, 2020

How Panama Canal navigated COVID, drought and trade war


News from Panama

The Panama Canal debuted a $5-billion-plus set of larger locks in 2016, only months before a trade war broke out between the U.S. and China — the waterway’s two largest transit sources. The canal, which relies on water availability, suffered one its worst droughts ever in 2019. And then came the coronavirus. Carriers slashed Asia-East […]

October 19, 2020

Personal growth during lockdown in Panama


News from Panama

When a school principal died, infecting almost the entire staff and students, it was finally confirmed COVID-19 entered my country, Panama. A national emergency and full lockdown was declared. On paper, quarantine meant 40 days, but the situation was so mismanaged we had to spend seven months locked inside our homes instead. While spending the lockdown […]

October 19, 2020

Copa Airlines to fly from Havana to Panama this month


News from Panama

Copa Airlines will fly from this capital to Panama on October 21 and 29, reported the airline.   According to Nelson Cabrera, Sales Executive, the tickets are available for purchase through the sites www.copa.com and https://www.copaair.com/es/web/gs/centro-de-reservaciones, and in any office of the company. Flight number CM0372 will depart from Havana at 3:15 p.m., local time, […]

October 19, 2020

Deal alert: Flights to newly reopened Costa Rica, Panama and Grenada from $171 round trip


News from Panama

Countries continue to reopen to U.S. travelers, including several Caribbean and Central American destinations within a four-hour flight of the United States: Costa Rica, Panama and Grenada. For more TPG news and deals delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter here. We’ve published multiple reopening guides for these destinations in recent weeks, and these […]

October 19, 2020