The price of gasoline will fall between 3 and 5 cents on Friday April 28 in time for the long weekend incorporating May Day.

95-octane gasoline will drop  five cents   to $.766 a liter, and  91 octane will  fall three  cents to  $.742 a liter, says Panama’s  Energy Secretariat.

The price of diesel, however, will rise 6 cents to $ .629 a liter.

The new prices, which affect the  capital and the Caribbean city of Colón, will take remain in place until May 12.

In the rest of the country, fuel prices are slightly higher because of transportation costs, say  the Energy Secretariat, which updates fuel prices every 15 days.