Panamanian Vice President and Foreign Minister Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado waves to reporters before a meeting with her Indonesian counterpart Retno LP Marsudi at the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta on Thursday.(JP/Seto Wardhana)Indonesia and Panama have agreed to intensify cooperation, especially on trade and investment, as the two play significant roles in their […]

It is not a secret that Cuban entrepreneurs travel to Panama to buy consumer goods that they later sell in the black market. The Panamanian government is making it easier for them to continue their business. The Panamanian embassy in Havana was busy on Tuesday. Cubans will now be able to travel to the Central American country […]

Panama”s President Juan Carlos Varela will make an official visit to Cuba on Oct 29-31, the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.   According to the programme, Varela will pay tribute to National Hero Jose Marti in the memorial bearing his name in Havana and will hold official talks with Cuban authorities. The President will […]

The Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment, Elba Rosa Perez, and her Panamanian counterpart, Emilio Sempris, have signed on Friday a technical and academic cooperation agreement in environmental matters.   The agreement, with a duration of five years and extendable for the same period, will allow the sustainable use of natural resources, the […]

Latinvex staff covered this in a recent article that they published. Multinationals in Latin America improved their performance last year, posting an 11 percent increase in revenues, according to according to the latest Latinvex 500. That stands in contrast to 2016, when they suffered an 8 percent decline.

These hats can run serious bucks and after watch the detail that goes into making them you will see why. Simón Abel Espinal wakes up thinking about his work—and with good reason. For nearly 40 years, he’s handwoven toquilla straw hats of the highest quality. Widely known as “Panama hats,” these brimmed beauties actually come […]

BUILDING a channel linking two major seas would boost Thailand’s role in global connectivity, said Panama’s Vice President Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, whose country has played a similar role for over a century since it opened the Panama Isthmus in 1914. “I think it is very powerful in every way for connectivity in […]

U.S. Navy Divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 pose for a group A team of U.S. Navy divers and explosive ordnance disposal technicians arrived in Panama Oct. 10 to begin Subject Matter Expert Exchanges (SMEE) and partner capacity building engagements with Panamanian forces as part of Southern Partnership Station (SPS) 2018. […]

Florida State University-Panama is now home to the first international installation of WeatherSTEM, a weather tracker that sends out hyperlocal alerts and tracks data at a specific location.   The WeatherSTEM station was installed earlier this month at the Panama campus with the help of WeatherSTEM CEO Ed Mansouri and FSU Vice President for Research Gary K. Ostrander. FSU-Panama is an international branch campus […]

Arguing that local investments could be at risk, the Maritime Chamber requested the exclusion of the maritime sector from the trade agreement that Panama negotiates with the Asiatic giant. In a note addressed to the Chief Negotiator of Panama, the trade guild of the sector requested not to include the maritime sector, and especially the […]