On September 25, 2013, Vasco Nunez de Balboa’s discovery of the Southern Sea, known today as the Pacific Ocean, turns five hundred years old. A recently passed law creates the National Committee for the Celebration of the Fifth Centennial of the Discovery of the Pacific Ocean charged with organizing all the related commemorative events...
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In reaction to Panama City Mayor Bosco Vallarino’s $923,000 spending on outside consulting services, Vice President Juan Carlos Varela says the Mayor’s Office needs to get its spending back on track, La Critica Reports. “It seems that these are senseless consultancies,” Varela said. ”It is lamentable that these funds are spent when Panama’s municipal...
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The Social Investment Fund (FIS) hopes to invest $12 million in the development of 12,000 self-sustaining gardens and farms over the next four years. During his appearance before the National Assembly’s Budget Committee, the Director of the FIS, Giacomo Tamburrelli, reported that so far 15 farms have been set up throughout the country. Tamburrelli,...
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