Panama

The worldwide rise in shipping prices for consumer goods has led to a 34% increase in revenues for the national maritime industry this year, reaching a new record for the sector and a significant contribution to the country’s GDP

Due to the rising gasoline prices, and the fact that they are the highest they’ve been in the past five years, carriers, drivers, and truck drivers are holding a national blockade on the streets impacting both circulation and freight activities

Thousands of protesters crowded Panama City to demand less corruption to favour social equality and cheaper cost of life

This week the country will start providing the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to its citizens

The government released a formal statement mentioning how they are currently working to counteract the negative repercussions that the publication of the scandalous “Pandora Papers” will bring to the country

In order to reboot tourism, the government announced that it will start vaccinating visitors who wish to, officially making Panama the first Latin American country to take this initiative

Significant protests took place in front of the Parliament as citizens heavily disagree on the proceedings of the deputies’ discussions regarding the national electoral reform

As the government legalized the use of medical marihuana, the country have become the first Central American state to regulate the substance’s consumption

The Ministry of Health is currently studying and evaluating the possibility of requiring the population to get a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in order to combat the Delta variant of the virus

A number of businesses have been fined over US$1.000.000 by the National Consumer’s Protection and Competition Defense Authority since they didn’t respect the price regulations imposed to protect prices during the pandemic

The Chepo area will privatise trash collecting due to lack of public funds, therefore affecting the possibility of correctly gathering all waste in the region and changing the current taxing policies for residents

A powerful magnitude-6.8 earthquake shook Panama and Costa Rica, but it was relatively far from the largest population centers and there were no immediate reports of damage