With the current outbreak of COVID-19, frequently cleaning and disinfecting your home is essential for keeping yourself and your family safe and healthy. While person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 poses a much greater risk than transmission via surfaces, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends cleaning and disinfecting high-touch surfaces at least once a day, even if you’re […]
Nicolás Maduro with Opal Tometi (right), co-founder of Black Lives Matter, in Harlem, New York. (Flickr) The organization’s founders are avowed Marxists, more interested in ideology than in solving racial inequality. Black Lives Matter purportedly exists to combat the alleged racism inherent in America’s police forces. Police abuse, and particularly police abuse against black citizens […]
At the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak in most of the region’s real estate markets, interest in commercial investments decreased, but in recent weeks the decline stopped and in some countries increases are already being reported. Through a system that monitors changes in consumer interests and preferences in Central American countries in real time, developed […]
We are fragile. You and me. Though we act strong, our lives are held together with thoughts of where we might be tomorrow. And of disappointed yesterdays. At any moment we might shatter. We might fall to our knees weighed down by the terror of being so far from our own control. Dare we look […]
The surroundings of the Plaza de la Independencia, in Panama‘s Casco Antiguo, is a sales point that at a distance of 10 minutes walking, monopolizes a captive market of 38 thousand people who together spend $6 million, and of them, 17% show interest in sunglasses. In CentralAmericaData we developed a geomarketing tool based on interactive maps, through which you can identify […]
Seven major European investment firms told Reuters they will divest from beef producers, grains traders and even government bonds in Brazil if they do not see progress in resolving the surging destruction of the Amazon rainforest. The rising threats from investors with more than $2 trillion in assets under management, including Finland-based Nordea and the […]
Restructuring of airlines, preference for direct flights, modifications in the routes operated and the use of smaller aircraft are some of the changes expected in the regional air market in the context of the new business normality. Air traffic has virtually disappeared in the last three months, as governments in Central America have decided to […]
In 2019, 20 environmental impact studies were submitted to build hospitals, clinics and other health care centers in the countries of the region, projects valued at $340 million. The interactive platform “Construction in Central America“, of the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData, includes an updated list of public and private construction projects that present environmental impact studies (EIS) to the […]
Full opening by regions and not by blocks, reactivation of construction and the establishment of an emergency financial assistance plan are some of the proposals of the Panamanian business sector to face the economic and health crisis. For the Panamanian Association of Business Executives (Apede) the confinement measures do not manage to stop the advance of covid-19 transmission, but […]
The Panama Canal reported a 21% drop in the number of ships crossing the waterway in May amid the coronavirus pandemic, compared to projections for traffic. Just 937 ships used the canal last month, while there were 260 cancellations of crossings, canal administrator Ricaurte Vásquez said Wednesday. He said 119 of the cancellations involved giant […]