Where are the “GOOGLE” companies in PANAMA? Who likes working where?

Workers, recruiters, and citizens contributed their opinions to the Merco ranking update. Merco Talento Panama presented the results of the second edition of its ranking of Panamanian companies that attract talent, the majority of which are from the financial and banking sectors. https://www.laestrella.com.pa/economia/conozca-las-empresas-panamenas-donde-todos-quieren-trabajar-PC13999305 Banco General repeats for the second consecutive year as the best company to…

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MAY offers many cultural events to showcase Panama. “Museum Month 2025

The Ministry of Culture has published the events it will hold in May for the whole family. https://www.laestrella.com.pa/vida-y-cultura/actividades-gratis-por-el-mes-de-los-museos-HD12555389 These include exhibitions, talks, workshops, lectures, historical tours, guided tours, discussions, and musical performances. The Portobelo Customs Museum, also known as the Museum of Afro-Panamanian Memory, presents the exhibition “The Legacy of Portobelo,” open until May 11…

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University of Miami- “The U”, focusses on Panama for their Environmental Sciences

https://news.miami.edu/stories/2024/03/panama-trip-offers-new-perspectives.html Until recently, Carmen Chavez had spent just a few days in Panama, but never got the chance to truly understand its history and culture. Yet during spring break, Chavez, a doctoral student studying environmental science and policy, along with 12 other graduate students studying law or the environmental sciences spent the week in the…

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More protests involving the Education System

http://elsiglo.com.pa/panama/docentes-luto-exigen-renuncia-ministra-educacion/24239187 Educators protest in various sectors of the national territory  Educators are protesting in different parts of the country. They do so dressed in black after the cold-blooded murder of an educator and the husband of a teacher when they participated in the closures in Chame, province of Panama Oeste. In these rallies they take the…

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Multiple factions of discontent turn PC into chaos

https://www.laestrella.com.pa/nacional/231023/siguen-protestas-bloqueos-vias-sancion-contrato-minero This weekend there were demonstrations in front of the building where Cortizo resides and the headquarters of the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party. Due to the closure of roads, delays in the arrival of workers to their jobs have been reported. Also low vehicular traffic for fear of being left in the middle of the roadblock….

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The mystery of how 9000 books ended up in a landfill. A real “whodunnit?

El señor presidente the novel of the Guatemalan Nobel Prize in Literature (1967) Miguel Ángel Asturias published in 1946. El Canal Barato by Federico Tuñón. 467 serial Lottery magazines from 1941 to 2012. Rogelio Sinán’s common cradle , from 1963. Nalu Nega , by the late Panamanian author Alfredo Cantón. Conversation in the Cathedral , the third novel by the author Mario Vargas Llosa published in 1969….

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