The construction of the Horticultural Excellence Center for Agricultural Innovation Panama-Israel will turn the country into an agricultural hub for Latin America. This was confirmed by the Minister of Agricultural Development, Augusto Valderrama, during his tour of the experimental station of El Ejido, in Los Santos, headquarters of this project. In his visit, Valderrama commented […]
The electric power distribution company Naturgy and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, MAC Panama, have signed a sponsorship agreement to collaborate closely in the promotion of art and culture in Panama. The protocol signing took place on Thursday, April 13, 2023, with the presence of the Country Manager of Naturgy, José Luis Lloret, […]
This morning, the Minister of Health, Luis Francisco Sucre and the regional director of Quarantine Services of the International Regional Agency for Agricultural Health (OIRSA), Raúl Rodas, signed an agreement to expedite payment through the regional agency of the inspectors of coil cattle slaughter plants in Panama. It should be noted that after 40 years of […]
the Panamanian airline Air Panama will reactivate the air route between Panama City and Chitré in the province of Herrera, to connect the Azuero region by air with Panama City, with direct flights, in addition to increasing the tourist offer. This route will have a frequency of a daily flight from Monday to Thursday leaving […]
Utah Public Radio is partnering with Utah State University’s Biology Department and Ecology Center to gather and share stories about research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama. UPR News Director Sheri Quinn and science reporter Colleen Meidt are meeting with Jerry Schneider, PhD postdoctoral fellow in the Beckman Lab. They […]
et profit at Grupo SURA, Colombia’s largest investment company, rose by 81.9% in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared to the year earlier period, the firm said in a statement late on Tuesday. The company posted a net profit of 688 billion pesos ($142 million) for the October to December period. Total revenues in the […]
Two companies presented proposals for the public tender for the best value of the maintenance and rehabilitation project of the Centenario bridge. The fixed reference price reaches $5.6 million and the proposing companies were the CAA Centennial Bridge Rehabilitation Consortium (Centroequipos S.A., ARD Engineering INC., ATP Electronics, S.A.) with the sum of $ $6.2 million and […]
The President of the Republic of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, inaugurated this Thursday the David International Fair, in the province of Chiriquí, which will be held until next March 26. During the event, the president authorized the investment of $3.3 million so that this year, through the “A Better Stallion” program, 1,200 milk and meat bulls […]
Panama’s government approved a 20-year loan deal worth nearly $626 million with the Japanese government aimed at continuing work on a second phase of a major public transit line southwest of the capital, officials announced on Thursday. The Line 3 metro system covers 14 train stations stretching across 17 miles (27 km) and the work […]
The idea had been bandied about for decades, but in January 1880 a bold French team finally embarked on one of the most ambitious projects of all time: building a shipping canal through the Panamanian jungle to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But in less than a decade the French canal company had gone […]