(PanamaDigest) Panama’s new Authority of Urban and Household Waste began trash collection duty at 6 a.m. today, Monday, with 3,000 employees, 30 rented trucks and 30 transferred from the former municipal urban and residential waste management department. The new authority also inherits an estimated $40 million of debt, $55 in default payments and 1,500 tons of capital … [Read more...]
Panama Jazz Festival is Coming
(Panama Digest) Panama’s Eighth Annual Jazz festival kicks off January 10 with performances by leading international jazz musicians through January 15. “Thanks to the vision and work of many, the Panama Jazz Festival is becoming an event that is a cultural reference in Latin America,” Danilo Pérez, Founder and Artistic Director states on the festival’s website. “For a … [Read more...]
Plans for Carnival events in Panama City taking shape
(prensa.com) The government has started making plans for the Panama City Carnival celebration, which will be held from March 5-8. Tourism Authority Administrator Solomon Shamah said that the government will contribute $1.5 million to the event, with the remainder of the money needing to come from sponsors. The government tried to collect an entrance fee for the events last … [Read more...]
Chilly summer forecast for Panama
(NewsroomPanama) The first day of 2011 in Panama city started off warm and sunny, but weather forecasters are not optimistic about January. Berta Olmedo, head of of meteorology at the Electricity Transmission Company (Etesa), says that cold fronts in January, will continue to bring the rains, storms and winds that we suffered in December 2010. Olmedo says Panama has not … [Read more...]
Panama population numbers
(PanamaInvestorBlog) After the many criticisms and concerns that led to the preliminary figures of the XI National Census of Population and Housing VII, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) of the Comptroller General's Office finally informed how many of us: 3 million 405 000 813 inhabitants. The head of INEC, Danis Cedeno, said the total figure, one … [Read more...]