My friend and CEO Pedro Heilbron continues to grow the fleet and routes makig COPA one of the world’s best run airlines!! When Susie and I returned to Toumen from our trip to South America on Wednesday, the gates at expanded terminal were packed with passengers, a good sign of COPA’s continued success. Starting next […]
The Cabinet Council has approved a loan contract for investments in infrastructure and fiscal control equipment at the country’s border posts. According to a decree published on June 5 in the Official Gazette, “ … the signing of the Loan Agreement … between the Republic of Panama and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has been authorized, up […]
The Panamanian issue of $500 million in “Panda” debt securities could be made in the course of the second half of the year, in the Chinese capital market. With this issue, the Panamanian government plans to take advantage of the most favorable financing conditions offered by the Chinese securities market, compared to the local market […]
After Anthony Bourdain’s death, a particular kind of tribute proliferated in my social media feeds. Post after post eulogized the chef, who through his writing and globetrotting TV shows became an ambassador of the world to the United States, for his unflinching honesty and political conviction. Bourdain used his tremendous platform to explain to his […]
The plan put forward by the Panamanian government will define, in the cities of Panama and Colon, areas that can be used as development poles, and establish risk zones in which interventions are not allowed. The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (Miviot) presented the Urban Development Plan for the Metropolitan Areas of the Pacific […]
JCB from England, Isuzu Motors Limited from Japan and China Railway International Group CO have set up under the conditions of the regime known as SEM (Sede de Empresa Multinacional or Site of a Multinational Company). The Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced that from these sites companies will provide services to their subsidiaries in […]
Panama’s greatest ever player discusses what it means for them to be at the World Cup, four years after narrowly missing out. He had seen them sobbing four years earlier and now he watched in silence as the tears returned, but it was different this time. Román Torres had just scored the late, late goal […]
Michele Labrut reports for Seatrade Maritime News on how Panama is joining the shipping digital community with the first web platform in the region which allows Panamanian importers and exporters to take advantage of this maritime and air connectivity. Recently set-up by Rommel Troetsch, www.bestfreightsearch.com or www.buscomejorflete.com is designed to facilitate competitive freight for Panama […]
Mimi Whitefield reports in The Miami Herald about the meeting in Miami of some 600 mayors from Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss how to improve their economies. Almost three-quarters of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean live and work in cities, which traditionally have been hubs of economic activity, entrepreneurship and […]
In Panama, FCC Construcción and Operadora Cicsa will be in charge of the expansion works to six lanes of the Las Playas Corridor, on the Santa Cruz – San Carlos section. The companies that took part in the tender for the extension of the road sections were the Consortium FCC-Corredor de Las Playas II, composed […]