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Carnival Paradise (formerly Paradise) is a Fantasy-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line.Built by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, she was floated out on 29 January 1998, and christened as Paradise by Paula Zahn. [2]
Cerro Punta is a city and corregimiento in Tierras Altas District, Chiriquí Province, Panama. [1] [2] Cerro Punta is located in Panama's western highlands at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 metres), just south of the Continental Divide. The climate, like the rest of Panama, is tropical with a short dry season and rainy season that extends ...
General elections were held in Panama on 5 May 2024 to elect a new President of Panama, members of the National Assembly and local governments. [2] [3] Due to constitutional term limits, incumbent president Laurentino Cortizo was ineligible for a second consecutive term. [4]
As the year began, a tropical low was over Australia, [4] and Cyclone Ula was moving toward Tonga. [5] Ula was followed by another 16 tropical cyclones, [6] [7] including Cyclone Winston, which was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere on record, with 10 minute sustained winds of 280 km/h (175 mph), and a minimum pressure of 884 mbar (26.1 inHg).
Ciudad del Saber was born from the idea of converting some military areas located in the former Panama Canal Zone into a center for knowledge exchange. The project was supported by former presidents Nicolás Ardito Barletta and Ernesto Pérez Balladares, [1] and was presented by the latter at the Summit of the Americas held in Miami, Florida, in December 1994.
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (/ m ɑː n ˈ w ɛ l ˌ n ɔːr i ˈ eɪ ɡ ə / ⓘ mahn-WEL NOR-ee-AY-gə, Spanish: [maˈnwel noˈɾjeɣa]; February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) [a] was a Panamanian politician and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989.
A former Air Panama Fokker 70 parked at Albrook Airport in 2011. The airline was founded in 1980 as PARSA, though certain services were operated as Turismo Aéreo.At the time of its startup, Panama had been ruled by a military dictatorship government since 1968, but together with Aeroperlas, the company became one of the biggest and most prominent airlines in the country.
On February 12, 1913, representatives from five towns on St. Andrews Bay met in Panama City to select a name for a proposed new county. The name Bay was selected because it was satisfactory to the majority of the citizens and descriptive of the territory that would be included.