A bulk carrier transiting the Panama Canal took out the railroad bridge in Gamboa on Tuesday, causing major damage. The Panama Canal Authority said it is investigating the accident and that ship transits are not impacted by the incident. The railway bridge crosses the Chagres River in Gamboa, Panama. It is part of the Panama […]
Among the people who look for products and services available online in Central America, 20% try to buy electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles or cameras, 17% home and garden items, and 10% vehicles. The interactive information system developed by CentralAmericaData monitors in real time the changes in consumer habits in all markets in the region, […]
To take the private island experience to the next level this winter, head 20 miles off the Pacific coast of Panama to Islas Secas, a resort spread out over a privately owned, 14-island archipelago dotting the Gulf of Chiriquí. While the resort is currently closed in adherence with Covid-19-related restrictions, it’s planning to reopen in high style this […]
MineraPanama The giant Canadian owned,mining operation in Colon which has registered five COVID-19 deaths announced Saturday, June 27 that it is now free of the virus. First Quantum company Cobre Panama, which runs the region’s largest open-pit declared itself ready to return to operate without risking health protocols”. In a published statement Minera said: “the […]
By now, we all know that even if we’re not symptomatic of coronavirus we can still spread it to others. Yet simultaneously, many of us still find it difficult to truly internalize the idea that we wouldn’t somehow know if we were putting our loved ones at risk. As it turns out, even without a telltale cough to spread […]
With the current outbreak of COVID-19, frequently cleaning and disinfecting your home is essential for keeping yourself and your family safe and healthy. While person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 poses a much greater risk than transmission via surfaces, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends cleaning and disinfecting high-touch surfaces at least once a day, even if you’re […]
Nicolás Maduro with Opal Tometi (right), co-founder of Black Lives Matter, in Harlem, New York. (Flickr) The organization’s founders are avowed Marxists, more interested in ideology than in solving racial inequality. Black Lives Matter purportedly exists to combat the alleged racism inherent in America’s police forces. Police abuse, and particularly police abuse against black citizens […]
At the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak in most of the region’s real estate markets, interest in commercial investments decreased, but in recent weeks the decline stopped and in some countries increases are already being reported. Through a system that monitors changes in consumer interests and preferences in Central American countries in real time, developed […]
We are fragile. You and me. Though we act strong, our lives are held together with thoughts of where we might be tomorrow. And of disappointed yesterdays. At any moment we might shatter. We might fall to our knees weighed down by the terror of being so far from our own control. Dare we look […]
The surroundings of the Plaza de la Independencia, in Panama‘s Casco Antiguo, is a sales point that at a distance of 10 minutes walking, monopolizes a captive market of 38 thousand people who together spend $6 million, and of them, 17% show interest in sunglasses. In CentralAmericaData we developed a geomarketing tool based on interactive maps, through which you can identify […]