What do bananas, cloud servers, cartoon mice, and luxury cars have in common? They’ve all been part of 2025’s wave of layoffs. This year, even companies once thought too big to cut are ...

Workers at U.S.-based banana company Chiquita Brands in Panama ended their protests and road blockades on Wednesday after reaching an agreement over pension reforms. The workers had gone on strike on ...

Panamanian authorities arrested Francisco Smith, leader of the banana workers’ union SITRAIBANA, accusing him of orchestrating road blockades during a six-week strike against Chiquita Brands. The ...

Panama declares emergency in western province after deadly pension protests Clashes with police have left at least one person dead and about 30 injured in a major banana-producing province.

Panama has declared an emergency in its main banana-producing region, after shops were looted and buildings vandalised in ongoing protests over a pension reform. The government says constitutional ...

A worker uses a front loader to clear a roadblock set up by protesters as part of a widespread strike by workers of the Chiquita banana company, which had ceased operations in the area, and are ...

A major disruption has hit the global banana industry as Chiquita, one of the world's leading banana distributors, has announced the complete layoff of its workforce in Panama. This significant ...

Panama has suspended constitutional protections for five days in its northwestern Bocas del Toro province after two months of protests and road blockades turned more destructive the previous night.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Panama's government on Friday temporarily suspended some constitutional rights in the western province of Bocas del Toro hours after businesses and government offices were ...

Bananas are one of Panama’s main exports along with shrimps and copper ore. The crisis escalated earlier this month after banana giant, Chiquita, laid off all of its 6,500 workers in the country.

Chiquita sacked thousands of workers over the strike. The banana growers' unions called off their protest last week in a bid to reverse the layoffs but other groups have remained at the barricades.