Royal Caribbean International will deploy Serenade of the Seas on roundtrips from Cartagena, Colombia and Colón, Panama October 2025 through April 2026. Passengers may embark at either city for the seven-night southern Caribbean cruises that also call at Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. ‘We are very happy to return to the region with Serenade of the […]
Panama has been selected to host the World Congress of the International Association of Congresses and Conventions (ICCA), which will be held from November 8 to 11, 2026. This event will represent a crucial opportunity to reaffirm Panama’s positioning as an ideal destination in the meeting industry and increase its competitiveness in this sector. The […]
The Panamanian president, José Raúl Mulino, joined this Friday in the recognition of the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate president-elect of Venezuela, after the National Electoral Center (CNE) of the South American nation gave Nicolás Maduro as the winner in an election last Sunday that Panama considers “fraudulent.” “Panama joins the recognition of Edmundo González Urrutia as elected president of […]
The Assembly of Panama is studying a controversial draft law that could grant amnesty or pardon to former president Ricardo Martinelli, asylum in the Nicaraguan embassy after a conviction for corruption, and which was rejected this Friday by Transparency International (TI) considering that it is done to give “impunity.”The Panamanian chapter of Transparency International rejected […]
The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) has made a first disbursement of US$13.6 million for the Sanitation Program of the Districts of Arraiján and La Chorrera in Panama. This project will benefit more than 250,000 people from 66,000 homes, significantly reducing the discharge of untreated wastewater into local rivers and ravines. The program […]
In an unprecedented finding, researchers from the Smithsonian Institute of Tropical Research (STRI) have discovered on Barro Colorado Island in Panama what could be the largest liana in the world, challenging other scientists to find a larger one. With a diameter of more than two feet (635 mm), this huge liana, found on March 9, […]
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Carlos Hoyos, held a meeting with Pituka Heilbron, president of the board of directors of the IFF Panama foundation, where they addressed issues such as the economic return program, the attraction of international productions and the strengthening of the Panamanian film industry. During the meeting, key strategies were discussed […]
Panama’s National Secretariat of Energy launched its first renewable energy tender in 10 years in February, marking the first auction in Central America to include battery storage systems. The tender was designed to allocate 500 MW of capacity and 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) with electricity distribution companies. However, Secretaría Nacional de Energía (SNE) suspended the […]
Panamá Pacífico is emerging as an area for companies in the semiconductor business to be installed focused on the testing, packaging, assembly and distribution of these technological products. This was indicated by Henry Kardonski, General Manager of Panama Pacific (London & Regional Panama), to develop the area, who pointed out that the destination of this […]
The Cabinet Council of Panama has decided to lift all the extraordinary social, economic and health measures that were in force since the COVID-19 pandemic, measures that were adopted by the previous government to mitigate the effects of the health crisis. In 2021, through Cabinet Resolution No. 129 of December 29, the Cabinet Council had […]