In her speech at the Dec. 2 inauguration of the Panama Int’l Film Festival. Panama’s Minister of Culture, Giselle Gonzalez, revealed that the country would likely have a major studio facility in the future and pledged more support for the festival, which has suffered major pandemic-induced budget cutbacks. In an exclusive interview with Variety in Panama, Gonzalez said […]
The United States Embassy donated a wooden identification system (Xylo Trons) to the Panamanian Government to help combat illegal logging and associated trade, and complete the efforts of the Ministry of the Environment (MiAmbiente) to achieve the traceability of wood. The United States Embassy donated a wooden identification system (Xylo Trons) to the Panamanian Government […]
Dior’s Travel Retail Americas division has opened its first beauty boutique in Central America at Panama’s Tocumen Airport Terminal 2 in partnership with Motta Internacional, under the Attenza Duty Free branding. The new boutique, which represents a first for a North or Central American airport – and for the country of Panama – will carry […]
The project consists of placing satellites in orbit to take the Internet to remote places, with a high-speed connection The National Authority for Government Innovation (AIG) approved on Wednesday the license application to the company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. belonging to Elon Musk, through its Starlink system, to start its operations in Panama. The request […]
The 19th meeting of the Parties wound up in Panama agreeing on measures to protect over 500 new species, the Ministry of Environment reported. According to a statement by this Ministry, the summit of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which has been in session here since […]
The Vice President of the Republic and Minister of the Presidency, José Gabriel Carrizo Jaén, chaired this Thursday the XI regular meeting of the National Advisory Council on Disability (Conadis), with the participation of the working groups and organized civil society on disability. The vice president stressed that while in the periods from 2009 to […]
The 21-kilometre-long line has been in operation since April 2019, during which time Alstom has already been providing maintenance services. The new contract includes maintenance of 21 Alstom Metropolis trains, covering the overhaul of the bogies, brake systems, coupling systems and pantographs. Alstom will also oversee the maintenance of the Urbalis communications-based train control (CBTC) […]
The president of AES Panama, Miguel Bolinaga, said that the work is going “at a good pace” A large natural gas-based electric generator with an investment of 1.1 billion will start testing at the end of 2023, the project managers, AES Panama and InterEnergy Group, reported on Wednesday. The Gatún Generator project, located on Telfers […]
This agreement was signed by the Minister of Mici, the director of Ampyme and the general administrator of the ATP. With a view to generating a public-private partnership to empower entrepreneurs and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of Panama, the Ministry of Commerce and Industries (Mici), the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Authority (Ampyme) […]
The measure is a priority to protect the quantity and quality of groundwater. The cost of the project is $1.7 million and three companies are interested in providing the services. The project is intended for the whole country. Panama will carry out a study of exploration and evaluation of groundwater throughout the national territory. The […]