Balboa Port Strikers Back to Work
Striking Balboa Port workers returned to their jobs at 10.30 pm on Monday. July 29 after the signing of an...
BUSINESS
Cattle farmers in the dark over meat exports to China
The loudly touted Panama meat exports to China have been in the hands of a single company and has not...
Business leaders upbraid lawmakers over ports strike
The Chamber of Commerce. Industry and Agriculture (Cciap) has criticized the position of some members of the National Assembly over...
UN and Canal authority sign climate change action accord
With climate change threatening the water supply of the inter-ocean channel, The UN Environment agency and the Panama Canal Authority...
Call for dialogue in 10 day Port workers’ strike
The worker’ strike, in the Balboa port, is more than ten days old, and at the Friday installation of the...
Property tax withholding plan begins August 1
Panama’s property tax withholding system kicks in on August 1, to speed up the receipt of payments. Rafael Brown, legal...
Panama growth leads, inequality remains
Inequality in Panama with one of the highest ranks only behind Brazil and Honduras in the whole of Latin America...
Panama says adios to plastic bags as watchdogs standby
On Saturday, July 20 Panama became the first country in Central America to ban the use of plastic bags in...
No further minting of the “Martinelli” Balboa
Panama’s Balboa coin colloquially known as “the Martinelli” and on par with the US dollar will not be reminted according...
“Grave danger” Casco Viejo hotel fined $100,000
A hotel, near the presidency in Panama's historic Casco Viejo said to pose a "grave danger" to people and the...
