Ukraine will open an embassy in Panama in 2025


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The presidents of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, and of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, agreed to open the first Ukrainian embassy in Panama by 2025, in an action that seeks to strengthen diplomatic and commercial relations between the two countries. This new diplomatic headquarters, located in Panama City, will allow Ukraine to establish a strategic connection with […]

September 27, 2024

President Of Panama Announces Blood Cancer Diagnosis


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The President of Panama Laurentino Cortizo said on Monday that he has blood cancer, although the 69-year-old said he feels well and is in “good spirits.” In late May, Cortizo’s doctors detected “a decrease in hemoglobin and white blood cell count” during routine testing, the president said in a televised statement. Specialists recommended that a […]

June 24, 2022

Terminal 2 at Tocumen Airport begins operations


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On Wednesday, June 22, 2022, operations and commissioned passenger processing began within the new Terminal 2 of Tocumen International Airport. The Panamanian airline Copa Airlines is the first to operate from this new terminal 2. Passengers praised the new infrastructure. The former president of the Republic, Martín Torrijos, was the first Panamanian diplomat to leave […]

June 24, 2022

Yacht racers set sail from Seattle for Panama


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Jackie Wyer says goodbye to Patrick Van der Zijden, skipper of the Zhuhai, one of 10 70-foot-long ocean yachts that departed Seattle on Saturday for the next leg of the Clipper Round the World Race. They’ll arrive in Panama in about a month. Van der Zijden, who is Dutch, has logged more than 200,000 nautical […]

May 6, 2022

Panama Canal Proposes New Toll System, Raising Transit Costs


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The Panama Canal Authority proposed a comprehensive restructuring of its toll system on Friday, which would increase rates charged on cargo such as vehicles, oil and gas and soybeans that cross the waterway as ocean shippers rake in record profits. The changes would reduce the current structure to fewer than 60 tariffs from 430 now and focus […]

April 8, 2022

Panama – Regulation to the law that creates the private and unique system of registration of beneficial owners of legal entities


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ASSIGNMENT OF A UNIQUE REGISTRATION CODE (HEREINAFTER “CUR”): Every lawyer or law firm that intends to provide resident agent services for Panamanian legal entities must be registered in the Unique System of the Superintendence of Non-Financial Subjects. After their registration, the Superintendence of Non-Financial Subjects will assign a Unique Registration Code (hereinafter “CUR”) to each […]

April 8, 2022

The Darien, a Gap between Hope and Despair


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With a bag full of hopes and dreams, Iriana Ureña, a 32-year-old Venezuelan mother of two, arrived at a Migrant Reception Station (ERM) in San Vicente, at the edge of the Darien Gap. The look in her eyes showing the pain of a mother who would do anything to protect her children. Iriana and her […]

April 8, 2022