Investments and Business

Viva Air suspended its operations throughout the country on the night of this Monday, February 27. The decision was made after the company asked the Civil Aeronautics last year to join a larger airline due to its financial crisis.The news stranded thousands of passengers who had scheduled flights with the airline, so at various airports, mainly in the gold of bogotaclaims were filed.(Also read: Viva Air suspends its operations immediately: find out the reasons). The 'low cost' airline said through a statement that its request has not yet been resolved despite its urgent request due to the risk of "disappearing"…

The Minister of Finance, José Antonio Ocampo, announced the fiscal cost that, up to now, the health reform recently filed in Congress could have.(Also: Health reform: what are the figures that worry ministers?) The portfolio also clarified in a statement that the letter that several ministers delivered to President Gustavo Petro about this project was "an input prior to the filing."Now the President and Minister Ocampo pointed out that this “preliminary report contains information from the Ministry of Health; however, does not contain the revisions that have been made by the technical teams of the two portfolios in the last…

The National Government is aiming at structuring and executing several infrastructure projects to improve the competitiveness and productivity indicators of the country and, at the same time, generate a balance in the demand of the modes.In this sense, in the coming years 84.8 trillion pesos will be invested in railway, highway, fluvial and port projects. (Read also: Winter delayed works on the variant that connects the Pan-American highway in Cauca) Of this total, 50 billion pesos will go to public-private concession projects; 28.2 trillion pesos for the intervention of non-concession roads; 4 billion pesos will be for the strengthening of…

With the draft that was released in the last hours, the workers already have a clearer idea of ​​the aspects that support the companies labour reform that will be settled in the Congress of the Republic, once the ordinary sessions will begin on March 16. In an interview with EL TIEMPO, María Claudia Lacouture, president of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Colombia), talks about the effects that the changes being proposed could have on the job creation and productivity. (Also read: Labor reform: what changes for people who work on platforms?) What risks do you see in the…