President José Raúl Mulino began a state visit to Singapore focused on logistics cooperation, air services, a mutual legal assistance treaty, and carbon credits, before continuing to Vietnam. He will tour the Tuas Port, set to become the world’s largest automated container terminal.
A school in La Mitra, La Chorrera, now has Panama West’s first fountain that produces drinking water from air humidity, powered by solar energy and certified by health authorities. It is the second such unit installed in a Panamanian school.
Panama’s National Police seized more than 2,200 packages of illicit substances in a twelve-hour operation, dismantling stash houses and finding drugs hidden in agricultural cargo at port zones. The seizure marks one of the country’s largest recent blows to narco-trafficking.
President José Raúl Mulino is in New York for the UN General Assembly with a packed agenda of meetings with global giants including Apple, Google, JP Morgan and PepsiCo interested in investing in Panama. He will also attend the naming of “Little Panama Way” in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights.
The Panama Canal delivered 130 property titles benefiting 575 people in the Río Indio watershed, part of a program that has granted more than 2,200 titles in the area and over 25,000 across the Canal watershed in 26 years.
The UTP community held a human chain to demand justice and faster investigations into the forced disappearance of student Jafeth González.
Panama’s National Assembly unanimously approved a bill granting free five-year electronic passports to students who represent the country in international sporting, cultural, scientific, and academic events. The measure aims to remove cost barriers that have kept young Panamanians from competing abroad.
Residents of Colón protested outside ENSA offices after a prolonged failure in the prepaid electricity recharge system left families without power, causing food losses amid intense heat. The company faces mounting public pressure to resolve the outage and compensate affected users.
Retiree leader Guillermo Cortés says the climate is positive at the dialogue table with government and private sector representatives as parties work to reach consensus on Law 226 before the President’s 30-day constitutional deadline to sanction or veto the legislation.
Panama’s Maritime Authority is investigating an incident in which the Panama-flagged crude oil tanker New Andros was hit by an unidentified device in Iraqi waters, sparking a fire that was extinguished with no injuries among the 22 crew.
Panama is preparing to launch a public digital registry through the Panamá Conecta portal that will expose the names of citizens with final convictions for sexual crimes, aiming to strengthen protection of minors.
Panama’s Ministry of Environment has acquired three new motorized boats to expand surveillance and support scientific research in Coiba National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of exceptional biodiversity.
