President Ricardo Martinelli announced a project to move Marcus A. Gelabert airport from Albrook to Howard. The domestic airport would make way for the second phase of Government City. Construction on the first phase began in Curundu near the Transport Terminal. Marcus A. Gelabert airport was last moved from Paitilla to Albrook in 1999...
Panama’s Tocumen International Airport has a new terminal. Known as the Northern Terminal, the 226 square-foot, $100 million project adds 12 new gates to increase the airport’s capacity by 50 percent. Construction of the Southern Terminal with two dozen more gates is scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year. Facial recognition software arrives...
The Panamanian government is moving ahead with plans for its latest megaproject: the expansion of the Amador Causeway. Although the price tag has not been made public, the design includes the addition of two traffic lanes, more parking lots and new green areas; elimination of the Jean Figali landfill that the government appropriated in...
Passengers passing through Panama’s Tocumen International Airport will pay a $2.50 surcharge that will be used to fund airport security. This extra will apply to arriving, departing and connecting passengers, and airlines are charged with collecting the tax, La Critica reports. Statistics indicate that 5,042,910 people passed through Tocumen in 2010. If the math is...
The National Women’s Institute and the National Assembly are working on implementing the use of electronic bracelets for abusive men and women. The bracelets use global positioning technology that alerts police when violent offenders try to cross into restricted zones. The system has proved useful in other countries, and Panama hopes that it will...
