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...
BUSINESS
“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...
Feasibility study for Formula 1 in Panama advances
Reports are circulating in automobile networks that a feasibility study is being developed for the introduction of Formula 1 to...
Fourth bridge consortium among dubious background contractors
The list of the principal contractors of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) includes companies that have admitted before the...
OPINION: Crime pays in Panama construction industry
From the disclosure that the Ministry of Public Works makes on the contratistavisible.com portal, important data on Panamanian public procurement...
No increase in electricity bill for 99% of customers
Over 99 percent of customers will see no increase in electricity rates, in the first half of 2020, from...
Lake Gatun below expected level as dry season looms
In spite of recent rains and with Panama on the eve of an anticipated severe dry season, Lake Gatun remains...
Fourth bridge consortium lays off workers in spat with MOP
The timetable of Panama’s most expensive infrastructure project - the $1.5 billion fourth bridge over the canal – is up...
