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Panamanians protest the sale of public lands, October 2012. Critics of the law say the lease charges should be increased and the money invested in the impoverished Caribbean coast province of Colon. Colon province is home to several Atlantic ports that service ships using the Panama Canal and supply the country's only oil refinery. But the bustling duty-free area and ports have had little effect on improving conditions for the province's 245,000 people.
Panama’s president said Wednesday that he is willing to cancel plans to sell state-owned land in a duty-free zone on the Panama Canal following a week of sometimes violent protests in which a 10-year-old boy and two adults died.
President Ricardo Martinelli said on his Twitter account: “If the people of Colon don’t want the land in the duty-free zone to be sold, the sale will be canceled.”
Late Tuesday, Martinelli’s economy minister offered to use proceeds from the proposed sales for development projects in the city of Colon after a woman and a man were killed by stray bullets. The boy was killed during a confrontation between police and rioters Friday.
Despite the government’s statements, hundreds of...
U.S. agriculture giant Archer Daniels Midland raised the stakes in the global race for grains trading power last week, by seeking talks to buy smaller Australian shipper GrainCorp to build up its platform in Asia.
The 10 percent purchase comes at a time of dramatic consolidation in the global grains sector amid intense competition to feed fast-developing countries seeking food security.
It also comes as the four “ABCD” firms that have dominated the global agricultural business for decades — ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus — are emerging from a period of dismal earnings, as tough new competitors and volatile markets fuelled by financial crises cut earnings.
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The proposed annexation area is east of Interstate 5 Exit 32 to the north of the Kalama River in the area of Old Highway 99 and Kress Lake.Last week, Kalama City Council members approved a plan to annex 250 acres of Port of Kalama property and several adjoining parcels into the city. The next step is to get signatures from the property owners.
Including the land within the city would be mutually beneficial for the port and the city, according to port and city officials. … Kalama’s Planning Commission will review zoning changes to the area. Smee and Poulson said there could be mixed zoning that allows for light industrial, commercial and restaurant businesses. It could be six months to a year before the annexation process is complete, and another decade or two before the property is fully developed.
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