The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched the documentary project “Sustainable Development Chronicles, water harvesting process in Panama.” The Chronicles of Sustainable Development is an initiative that documents stories of people or associations that work in water harvesting protections and that encourages communities to get involved in these projects carried out by the Ministry of […]
October typically marks the start of peak season at the Panama Canal, as the global shipping industry and supply chains prepare for increased demand. Each fall, the waterway stands ready for waves of vessels to arrive, many loaded with holidays gifts or petroleum products to heat homes during the cold winter months. Yet this year, […]
Encouraging the cultivation of non-psychoactive hemp in the country could be an opportunity, since it was already approved in the first debate in the National Assembly after two years of engave. This is bill 323 that promotes the agro-industrial development of hemp to boost the local agricultural sector. Jorge Altamirano-Duque, representative of Panama to the […]
CAF – development bank of Latin America -, with the support of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), will promote electric mobility in Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay through the Electric Mobility and Low Carbon Transport Program (E-MOTION). With the aim of moving towards a clean, better organized, more efficient, more efficient, more equitable, comfortable, safe, sustainable, […]
Southern Africa’s premier airline, Airlink, has expanded its Latin American marketing and sales footprint to Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. The airline has also appointed AVIAREPS as its General Sales Agents in Latin America to promote its convenient schedule of flights which serve an unparalleled network of routes currently connecting 45 destinations throughout Southern Africa. AVIAREPS […]
Latin America’s first renewable-powered, trash-trapping wheel whisks away garbage floating down one of Panama’s most important but heavily polluted rivers before it spills into the Pacific Ocean, thanks to an initiative by a local environmental group. The wheel, fueled by hydraulic and solar energy, collects the vast amounts of waste produced in the capital Panama […]
Topsoe has been appointed by SGP BioEnergy to support the production of renewable fuels in South America’s largest upcoming plant in Panama – the first time both advanced biofuels and green hydrogen will be produced at scale. Topsoe will provide its HydroFlex™ technology to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and Renewable Diesel (RD), while also […]
The President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, delivered the order to proceed to start the construction work of the Paso Canoas – Río Sereno – Piedra Candela road, a work that will benefit more than 17,000 inhabitants of the districts of Baru and Renaissance, with an investment of B/.66,461,991.94. The governor, together with the […]
The Social Security Fund (CSS) placed Panama at the forefront in the Latin American region, since it is the only country that has two units to perform robotic surgery in the public health sector. With the acquisition of this new technology, in less than 48 hours, two patients who were operated on by robotic surgery […]
The United States announce to impose visas on Venezuelans for entry into that country, Panama faces a new challenge: to return Venezuelans who voluntarily decide to return to their country and exercise control over those who decide to continue their way north. Until Friday, 202,707 irregular migrants had passed through the Panamanian borders; of them, […]