Justice is Neither Prompt Nor Effective in Panama


News from Panama

Scale of injustice! A disservice is being done to the country’s business climate by court trials which take 15 years to produce sentences that can then be overturned on appeal. EDITORIAL It has taken such a long time that the main participants involved in the trail are not even the same people. Prensa.com reports that […]

February 3, 2016

Why the Rich Are Moving Money to the U.S.


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So, people are moving there money into US Trust Accounts in Las Vegas??  Isn’t that gambling a bit that the Banks there do not implode? Bloomberg’s Jesse Drucker reports on why some of the world’s wealthy elite are moving their fortunes to the United States, free of taxes and hidden from their governments. He speaks […]

February 3, 2016

Panama: Bringing Water to Paitilla Will Have a Price


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Again, we see developers building without any care about infrastructure.  The “planning department” should never approve projects unless there is adequate water, sewer, roads, etc. Soooo……. The costs required to overcome the deficit of potable water in the residential area must be paid by developers of new projects or by reevaluating the land. After confirmation […]

February 3, 2016

Latin America’s Low Productivity


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Come on, this is not that difficult to figure out guys.  While in the long run, education will help but the way things happen here, or do not happen here, that is a generational change that needs to take place.  Any top talent that works here is paid peanuts so they go to other places […]

February 3, 2016

Panama Canal Eyes Transhipment Plan


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In a bid to attract light manufacturing and assembly activities, the Panama Canal is focusing its efforts on a new logistics zone, as well as the construction of its new transhipment container terminal at Port Corozal, which it will request proposals for once an environmental impact study has been completed in February, 2016, according to […]

February 3, 2016

Luxury Home in Valle Escondido


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This Villa in Valle Escondido was renovated last year and has a professional kitchen imported from the US that it is of the highest standards in cabinetry and covered in Silestone.  The stove top is in the island and it is properly vented through the ceiling.  Being a cook myself, I love this feature. There […]

February 1, 2016

Another feel good moment in Boquete


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Boquete was honored this week by the visit of Ruth Bieber.  Ruth has been holding classes at our Boquete Community Players theater this week.  On Tuesday she presented her award wining documentary about her epic journey as a first time horseback rider where she and two of her Canadian friends rode thru the raw and […]

January 27, 2016