OPINION: Productivity off the table
Some 290.000 workers will benefit from the increase in the minimum wage, which is 3.3% on average. The increase ranges...
BUSINESS
President Cortizo took over “disorganized disaster”
When Panama President Laurentino Nito Cortizo took over the reins of the country he found a disaster in public finances,...
International media report Martinelli to alleged FCC bribery probe
The name of former Panama president Ricardo Martinelli has again surfaced in international media carrying reports of the scores of...
Russia holds Maduro aid plan as opponent popularity sinks
Russia is waiting for the president of the National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, to leave office before sending...
Multiple challenges for Panama government in 2020
Some of the main challenges facing the Lorentino Cortizo government in 2020 include:. The debt of the Non-Financial Public Sector...
First woman # 2 takes office at Panama Canal
Internationally renowned engineer Ilya Espino de Marotta, who played a lead role in the expansions of the Panama Canal took...
“Worst ever” minimum wage adjustment
The new minimum wage adjustment which ranges from, 1% in the struggling hotel sector to 8% in the “green...
Challenges ahead for the Canal
We celebrate - with abundant and justified reasons - the twentieth anniversary of the transfer of the Canal to Panamanian...
Canal marks 20 years of Panamanian operation
Panama celebrated on Tuesday, December 31 the 20 years of the US transfer. of the Interoceanic Canal highlighting the efficiency of...
Minimum wage up 1 to 8%
A minimum wage increase ranging between one and eight percent depending on the economic activity was announced on Tuesday, December...
WORLDVIEW: Preaident Trump fighting the wrong battle
By Jonathan Power In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, Sherlock Holmes lectures Watson on the unlikely...
