Canal gives record $1.703 billion to State
A record $1.703 billion contribution to the State, by The Panama Canal Authority (ACP), was approved by the Board of...
Month: December 2018
Moodys confirms Canals high rating
Moody’s rating agency on Friday, December 14 confirmed The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) A2 rating based on its business model,...
A lust for power
On the same day a Newsroom columnist commented on the hunger for power. exhibited by currently jailed former president Ricardo Martinelli, ...
New kids hospital dream remains a parking lot
Staff at Panama ’s sick kids hospital (Hospital del Nino) who have struggled with cramped and outdated facilities under successive administrations...
6 monthscountdown to polyethylene shopping bags farewell
Plastic polyethylene bags will disappear from Panama supermarkets, pharmacies and retailers, in just six according to a law introduced in...
Expansion consortium shares plunge on Miami ruling
Shares of Spanish construction company Sacyr fell over 14% on the Madrid Stock Exchange, after the International Chamber of Commerce, based...
Next government will inherit $4. 442 billion turnkey projects
Whoever takes over the reins of Panama's government in July 2019 will have to face turnkey contracts awarded by the...
OPINION: Panamas agricultural crisis
The agricultural sector, the backbone of the country's food security, is cornered. The crisis of conjuncture has many loose ends...
U,S, lawyer, Chiriquis 23rd drowning victim
American lawyer Michael Cornelius Fundeberger 58, a native of Missouri, was drowned on the beach in La Barqueta, in Alanje, Chiriqui...
No agreement on $4 billion holy grail of sunken treasures
Colombia has denied the existence of an agreement with Spain to extract the holy grail of treasures from a...
Martinelli eyeing Vice-President niche
In his current home in El Renacer prison, Panama ex-president Ricardo Martinelli who for five years ruled over one of...
Canal expansion consortium must repay $847 million
Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the consortium that built the expansion locks of the Panama Canal must return $548...
