Panama has led economic growth in Latin America in the last five years, but this bonanza has not translated into a better quality of life in terms of urban mobility. + info More time behind the wheel A report by the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) on urban growth shows that it takes 72…
“Here was my business,” said Julio Rodriguez standing in the sand. At the point that marked his feet was a local wood in which since the 90’s offered packages of excursions to tourists. In 2006, he looked at the turquoise water of the Arena Gorda beach 25 meters away from his post. I enjoyed watching…
The Chancellery of Panama announced today that the Vice President of India, Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu, will visit the country in May and will meet with Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela. Venkaiah Naidu, the first high-level authority in India to visit Panama, will also meet with the vice president and foreign minister, Isabel De Saint Malo,…
It is speculated that the president of the United States will attend the international event Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced today that he will not attend the VIII Summit of the Americas because security was supposedly withdrawn from the delegation of his country and because he considers this event “a waste of time.” “They removed…
Yesterday Venezuela ordered the suspension of the economic, commercial and financial relationship with subjects of the Republic of Panama Copa Airlines said in a statement that the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ordered, by resolution published in Official Gazette No. 6369, dated April 5, 2018, the suspension of the economic, commercial and financial…
The residents of Tocumen woke up yesterday with a huge traffic jam, due to a fatal traffic accident. It was approximately, at 6:30 in the morning of yesterday, when a young man tried to cross about 20 meters from the church of San Antonio, in the sector of La Morelos, where there is a zebra…
French police arrested a person on the Côte d’Azur suspected of involvement in the robbery of US television star Kim Kardashian in October 2016, local media reported on Monday. The arrest took place this week and the detainee will be presented today before the investigating magistrate investigating the facts, which allowed the thieves to take…
In the morning members of the National Union of Workers of the Construction Industry and Similar (Suntracs) closed several roads in the city of Panama to the conflict that remains with the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (Capac) for a salary increase during the six months of negotiation of a collective agreement. The workers affiliated with…
The five Neopanamax ships scheduled to transit this Thursday for the new set of locks could not complete the transit because the tugboat captains refused to comply with an order from the administration. Since the beginning of the third set of locks, inaugurated on June 26, 2016, the Canal administration has assigned three sailors to…
With the objective of participating in the “VIII Summit of the Americas” , the President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela , and the Vice President and Chancellor Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado traveled to the city of Lima, Peru . + info Corruption will be the highlight of a Summit of the Americas…
