Archive for April, 2010

Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli thinks that all the spending on infrastructure projects will grow the country’s gross domestic product by more than six percent in 2010, Reuters reports. “We are very confident and happy with aggressive investment plan,” Martinelli said in an interview today in Mexico City.  ”Security, low inflation and stability are helping...
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Minister of Panama’s National Environmental Authority Javier Arias was interrupted by environmental activists as he made his opening comments at the XVII Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of the Environment of Latin American and Caribbean held at the El Panama Hotel. The protesters unfurled a banner that read: “Mining=Death, Panama without mines already,”...
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A National Police operative, code name “Comrade,” seized 1.5 tons of war gear in the bunker of a rented house in the El Frances community in Dolega, Chiriqui. Among the items were AK 47s and the corresponding munitions, grenades, submachine guns, TNT explosives, mortar grenades, telescopic lenses, RPG 7 anti-tank rocket propelled grenade weapons...
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The National Institute of Professional Formation (INADEH) will build a training center with a $3.5 million government credit to capacitate drivers for Panama’s future Metro Bus system. The center will be located in Sona, President Martinelli’s hometown where he reportedly has a great deal of property.  Other public works on the current administration’s agenda...
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The Panama Fruit Producer company is joining the square watermelon market and exporting its first 120 square cubic fruits to New York. Operations manager Gerardo Diaz said the watermelons are natural. They grow inside cube-shaped boxes and conform to the mold as they get bigger.  Boxes are usually made of unbreakable polycarbonate, 30 times stronger...
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