Nearly 29,000 labor contracts suspended
The Pandemic state of emergency has devastated the Panama economy and caused the temporary suspension of 28,946 labor contracts, according...
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Storm over medicine delivery contract to suspect group
A growing outcry over a $168 million Social Security (CSS) contract awarded to a Mexican-Panama consortium for the storage and...
Grounded Copa offers early retirement plan
Copa Airlines whose fleet has been grounded since March 23 has decided to offer voluntary retirement plans to employees who...
Panama Total Easter Weekend Lockdown
As Panama’s frontline healthcare workers struggle to cope with the rising number of COVID-19 cases with, 2528 recorded by Thursday...
112 infected cruise ship passengers in humanitarian airlift
The Australian cruise ship Greg Mortimer carrying 112 passengers infected with COVID-19 will dock in Montevideo on Friday, April 10...
Virus closes Panamaa’s largest mine
As the number of cases of COVID-19 surged to 2.100. with 55 deaths, Panama’s health Minister Rosario Turner announced on...
Canal operator lives come first says Administrator
Most of the 20 Panama Canal workers infected with COVID-19 are employed in the operations area says Canal Authority (ACP),...
Panama airspace closure could mean 138.000 jobs lost
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that until the month of May, the air sector in Panama will stop...
Extending Sunday total lockdown under review
The total prohibition on citizen movement that was in place across the country on Sunday April 5 could be...
First mineworker virus death
A worker from the Minera Panamá company affected by COVID-19 has died. Israel Cedeño, deputy director of Planning of the...
Logging continues during nationwide lockdown
The nationwide mandatory quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped the widespread felling of trees and the movement...
