This a great article and the video is pure genius! Brian Murphy at The Miami Herald reports. Iceland’s Haukur Heidar Hauksson takes a selfie with supporters at the end of the Euro 2016 round of 16 soccer match between England and Iceland, at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, France, Monday, June 27, 2016. Claude Paris AP […]
The Panama Canal Authority expects to tender at the end of the year several logistics projects to be developed in 1,200 hectares of land in the canal zone. The goal of the Panama Canal Authority is to generate value-added services around the extended canal, and according to the head the institution, Jorge Luis Quijano, several state companies from […]
Price of gallon of regular gasoline: Costa Rica $3.82, Nicaragua $3.40, Honduras $3.32, Guatemala $2.86, El Salvador $2.84 and Panama $2.65. From a statement issued by the Ministry of Economy of El Salvador: The price trend is due to factors that have prevailed in recent months such as decisions taken by the OPEC, inventory accumulation in […]
US Soccer magazine reports and publishes these great photos. On Monday, 24 hours before their 2018 World Cup Qualifying match against Panama, the U.S. Men’s National Team went through their final preparations inside Estadio Rommel Fernández in Panama City. Built in 1970, the stadium was originally named Estadio Revolución but the name was changed in […]
Buyers are circling around Annie Canavaggio’s upcoming Panama Canal docudrama “1977, The Treaty: Son of Tiger and Mule,” which will trace Panama’s contentious path towards recovering its sovereign rights to the Canal. Scoring best docu at the December round of Panama’s state fund awards, the docu will focus on the seven-year negotiations leading up the […]
Entonces Nosotros’ – which had its world premiere at IFF Panama in 2016 – was the region’s highest-grossing local film Central America continued its sturdy box office growth in 2016, primarily driven by the opening of new multiplexes. Total box office for the region in 2016 was $140.5 million – 8.3% higher than in 2015 […]
Sabrina Martin reports in Panampost of how Trump and the International Community Are Coming Together to Save Venezuelan democracy Every month international support for Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro’s administration is shrinking and becoming more and more isolated, thanks in part to the worsening living conditions in-country as well as joint efforts by Organization of American States Secretary […]
Figures from the information system on the Market for Frozen Shrimp and Shrimp in Central America compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [Figure caption = “Click to interact with graphics”] Explore data in interactive graphs. Change in exports Considering the January-September period, between 2013 and 2016 the total volume of exports of frozen […]
Low Tax reports on how Hong Kong functions as a financial center and gateway for investment entering and leaving China which is key to its recent prosperity and future growth. Very good read. It’s hard to classify what Hong Kong actually is in one neat description. It isn’t technically “offshore,” it’s not really a country, […]
gCaptain reports that Japanese container shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has taken delivery of the MOL Triumph, the new ‘world’s biggest containership’ and the first ‘megaship’ to pass the 20,000 TEU threshold. The MOL Triumph was delivered Monday by Samsung Heavy Industries in Geoje, South Korea, where the vessel has been under construction since […]