(Panama Digest) Tocumen International Airport will implement new security regulations as part of an effort to control what comes in and out of the country. Airplanes will be revised on the tarmac upon arrival by dogs specialized in drug and money detection. The hours for revising cargo arriving via courier will be extended, and airport personnel will have to wear … [Read more...]
High-Ranking Ministers Resign from Panama Government
(Panama Digest) Reacting to the dismissal of Vice President Juan Carlos Varela as Foreign Minister, seven ministers resigned from their jobs with the Ricardo Martinelli administration. These include Alberto Vallarino, Minister of Economy and Finance; Carlos Duboy, Minister of Housing and Land Use Planning; and the vice ministers of health, government, finance, social … [Read more...]
Panama and Colombia Will Connect Power Grids
(Panama Digest) Panama and Colombia will invest $420 to build a 381.5-mile power line between the two countries. Colombia’s Minister of Mining and Energy Carlos Rodado said that each of the countries will contribute half of the money for the project. The line will carry a capacity of 14,000 mega volts from Cordoba, Colombia along the Caribbean coast to Panama. It will … [Read more...]
SUNTRACS and other groups protesting in the Plaza 5 de May
(Prensa.com) Members of the Sole Union of Construction and Allied Workers (SUNTRACS) and other groups in the country are concentrated in the Plaza 5 de Mayo to demand response to requests that have made the government of President Ricardo Martinelli. The shortages of drugs, justice for victims of KPC bacteria, supplies for workers in the Social Security Fund, are some of the … [Read more...]
Panamanian Researchers Receive $1 Million from Gates Foundation
(Panama Digest) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant to a team of Panamanian scientists researching how to treat malaria with microwave frequencies. Doctors Carmenza Spadaforo of the Institute of Advanced Scientific Research and High Technology Services and Jose Stoute of Penn State received $1 million to continue the second … [Read more...]