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In short: in Panama the employee contributes 9.75% of salary to the Social Security Fund and the employer 13.25% since April 2025, a rate that will rise to 14.25% in March 2027 and 15.25% in March 2029 under Law 462 of 2025. Added to that are the education insurance, 1.25% from the employee and 1.5% from the employer, and occupational risks, paid only by the company. The reform did not change the retirement age, 57 for women and 62 for men, nor the 240 contributions needed for a pension, but it created a system of individual accounts with a solidarity…

In short: JETOUR is the SUV brand that the Chinese group Chery created in 2018. According to its own press releases, it sold 622,590 vehicles in 2025, 9.5% more than the previous year, and operates in more than 100 countries with over 2,000 sales and service points; Business Review credits it with more than 2.5 million cumulative customers as of August 2026. It assembles the T2 in Malaysia and Pakistan and has industrial projects in South Africa and Egypt. For anyone buying in Panama, that scale does not guarantee good service by itself, but it lowers the risk of the…

In short: JETOUR is a Chinese SUV brand from the Chery group that is sold and backed in Panama by Petromotors, the official distributor, which also represents SOUEAST. Its local range comprises six models: the urban X50 and Dashing, the seven-seat X70 FL, the adventure-minded T1 and T2 and the G700 off-roader, an 892 hp plug-in hybrid. The warranty published by the distributor is 7 years or 200,000 km for the vehicle and 8 years or 150,000 km for the hybrid battery. The network has five showrooms, four in the metropolitan area and one in David. At the Panama Motor…

In short: Néstor Romero, researcher and chief operating officer of Centria Group, gave a series of master classes in June in the Master of Business Administration at Quality Leadership University (QLU) in Panama City. The subject was generative engine optimization (GEO) and how it differs from traditional SEO: in a search engine companies compete for a position in a list, in AI they compete for a place inside a single answer. Romero asked the future executives to keep one question in mind: when artificial intelligence talks about their sector, what will it say about their company. What was taught The…

In short: a team of researchers linked to institutions in Panama, Spain, Nicaragua and the United States, led by Néstor Romero, chief operating officer of Centria Group, has completed a scoping review on how brand presence in generative AI answers is measured. The study, under peer review at a Central American scientific journal, concludes that no scientifically validated instrument yet exists to measure that presence, that available metrics fall into seven overlapping families with no common framework, and that Spanish-language literature on the subject is almost invisible to international circuits. The team's next step is to build and validate a…