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José Manuel Restrepo, Colombia’s Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism has announced a hotel occupancy rate for March of this year of 58.44% reached by hotel occupancy in March, according to figures released by DANE, Colombia’s national statistics agency. For Restrepo, this...

Toronto, Ontario based Royal Road Minerals Limited (TSXV:RYR) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Canadian investment advisors Pollitt & Co. Inc. as its agent in connection with a proposed private placement offering of up to 40 million ordinary shares of...

Colombia’s house of representatives approved as part of its National Development Plan last week, authorization for the Ministry of Mines & Energy to study the possibility of introducing Hydraulic Fracturing, nicknamed “Fracking,” in Colombia. The unconventional petroleum and...

Bogotá based Rappi, an on-demand delivery startup operating in Latin America, has announced an investment of up to $1 billion USD from Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group Corp and SoftBank Vision Fund. The investment marks the largest technology financing to date in a Latin...

Gran Colombia Gold Corp. (TSX: GCM; OTCQX: TPRFF) announced Thursday its first quarter 2019 results up to March 31, 2019, highlighting record breaking gold production and low production costs. In a written statement, the gold miner operating Marmato and Segovia gold mines in...

Continental Gold Inc. (TSX:CNL; OTCQX:CGOOF) yesterday announced high-grade assay results from the initial 12 holes drilled into BMZ4, a new discovery located in the eastern-most part of the Yaraguá system at its 100%-owned Buriticá project in Antioquia, Colombia. Continental...

Chevron Petroleum has received a green light from Colombia’s Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio) to purchase Peru-based Primax’s interest in their jointly owned petroleum terminals in the Cali suburb of Yumbo, and the Pacific port...

Cali has become a strategic point for investment in Colombia’s services sector, earning the moniker “hometown of Corporations”, with more than 150 domiciled in the Valle de Cauca region, servicing national and international markets. The region has 4.7 million inhabitants and it...

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Tropical Forest Alliance annual meeting just concluded in Bogotá, Colombia, and the WEF has announced a number of commitments that will contribute to the Alliance’s goal of protecting the world’s tropical rainforests. The meeting took place the...

Toronto based Royal Road Minerals Limited (TSXV:RYR) has announced the appointment of  social development and environmental specialist, Liz Wall to the Board of Directors. According to Royal Road, Wall has over twenty years of global experience assessing and addressing social and...