The arrival of irregular migrants from Ecuador at the United States border has skyrocketed again, with more than 35,500 arrests, expulsions or deportations in the last quarter of 2022, which exceeds the number of the previous twelve months, in which they did not arrive at 25,000. This is reflected in the data from the United […]
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Panama Rejects Expanding First Quantum Canadian Mining Area of Operations
Panama refuses to expand the area of operation of Canadian mining company First Quantum in the Central American country, said Environment Vice Minister Diana Laguna, referring to an alleged request by the firm to use more land. The authority’s comments come amid negotiations for a new contract for the major copper mine, focused on taxes […]
Canadian First Quantum to appeal Panamanian government order to stop mine operations
Canadian company First Quantum Minerals will file an appeal on Tuesday against a Panamanian government order to halt operations at a copper mine in the Central American country, company CEO Tristan Pascall said. In December, First Quantum was notified by the local authorities that it had to suspend its activity in the field, after missing […]
Colombia and Peru lead the portfolio of external deposits in the banking system of Panama
Colombia and Peru lead the external deposits of the International Banking Center (CBI) of Panama, a portfolio that closed last November with a balance of US$ 36.115 million, reported this Friday the Superintendency of Banks of the Central American country (SBP). As of last November, in relation to the same period of the previous year, […]
Ukrainians ask Panama to join sanctions blocking deposits and the Canal to Russian ships
Several dozen Ukrainians demonstrated in Panama to repudiate the Russian invasion and asked the Panamanian State to join the international sanctions against Russia, such as closing the passage to its commercial or war ships and its capitals. Carrying Ukrainian flags and banners that read “Putin take your hands off UKRAINE” or “Go Home Putin”, the […]
EU keeps Panama and eight other countries on its list of tax havens
The countries of the European Union approved this Thursday to keep Panama, American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Trinidad and Tobago, the American Virgin Islands and Vanuatu on their blacklist of tax havens after verifying that they continue not to cooperate or have not done the reforms to which they had committed. The list, which is […]
What can I sell? thousands in Panama, pushed into informality, wonder
A small table where there are masks and bags with grains is the improvised shop of Sonora Espinosa, a 60-year-old unemployed woman who looks for her daily livelihood on the busy Central Avenue of the capital of Panama. The hustle and bustle of December is over and in these first weeks of January the movement […]
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama create a marine reserve in the Tropical Pacific
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama agreed to extend their marine areas and jointly protect them in the Tropical Pacific, they announced at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow. “We are protecting ecosystems as valuable as Galapagos, such as Cocos Island and its surroundings, from the most valuable ecosystems in the world,” said the […]