Explore the National Parks of Panama


News from Panama

There’s no shortage of opportunities for adventure in Panama. The Central American destination is home to more than a dozen national parks bustling with natural beauty and wildlife, including the popular Soberania National Park not far from the banks of the Panama Canal. Beloved by birdwatchers as it’s home to well over 500 different species, […]

September 19, 2018

$11 million Tender for Medical Center


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The Ministry of Health in Panama is putting out to tender studies, designs, preliminary plans, development of plans, equipment and furniture, for the construction of the new Ernesto Córdoba Campos polycenter. Panama Government Purchase 2018-0-12-0-08-LV-025188:   “The contractor to whom the project is awarded will proceed to make the designs based on the preliminary draft […]

September 19, 2018

Tender of Educational Infrastructure for $19 million


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The Ministry of Education in Panama is putting out to tender a study, design and construction work to expand and renovate the Professional and Technical Institute of Chilibre. Panama Government Purchase 2018-0-07-0-08-LV-034801:  “The work covered by these specifications includes the execution and total completion of each detail of the work object of the contract, including […]

September 18, 2018

Panama Canal Gets A Rating from Fitch for 3rd Year in a Row


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Fitch Ratings has affirmed the Panama Canal Authority’s (ACP) ‘A’ investment grade rating with a stable outlook for its long-term issuer default rating and its senior unsecured notes for the third consecutive year. The credit rating agency highlighted the canal’s “stable volume performance, solid competitive position, and well-diversified cargo mix, causing [the] ACP’s volume profile […]

September 18, 2018

Orla boosts gold recoveries in Panama


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Orla Mining (TSXV: OLA; US-OTC: ORRLF) has increased gold recoveries at its Cerro Quema gold project in Panama with results from new metallurgical column tests — part of a larger initiative to update the project’s 2014 prefeasibility study (PFS) by mid-2019. The company achieved 96% gold recoveries for its La Pava deposit and 91% for […]

September 17, 2018

New soft coral species discovered in Panama


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A study in the journal Bulletin of Marine Science describes a new, blood-red species of octocoral found in Panama. The species in the genus Thesea was discovered in the threatened low-light reef environment on Hannibal Bank, 60 kilometers off mainland Pacific Panama, by researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama (STRI) and the […]

September 17, 2018

Tender for Line 3 of Panama Metro


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Specifications are being published for the design, construction of civil works, auxiliary installations, supply and installation of an integral system that includes monorail rolling stock for the third Line. According to details of previous studies, Line 3 of the Panama Metro will be located between the provinces of Panama and Panama West, covering part of the […]

September 17, 2018