Rattlesnake, zebra and peacock plants have a new wild relative, discovered by Rodolfo Flores, Panamanian botanist and intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Helen Kennedy, herbarium research associate at the University of California at Riverside, and Flores named the species Calathea galdamesiana in honor of STRI’s herbarium assistant, Carmen Galdames. “Carmen has been […]
When behemoth container ships start sailing through the widened Panama Canal later this year, they will not come to Port Tampa Bay. But with more cargo expected to come to the eastern United States by sea, the port is betting that it can stake a claim to some of the new cargo traffic flowing through […]
Watching this video gave me chills. I have now been here almost 10 years and I have watched Panama and the Capital of our Province of Chiriqui flourish and grow. I cannot wait for this.
Panama has announced that it has begun the process of accession for both the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention and Hong Kong Convention, which aims to ensure the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships, Seatrade Maritime News reports. It is reported that Ministry of Foreign Relations will submit approval of the two conventions to […]
Peter Leach at JOC.com reports on the financial impact of construction problems of the Panama Canal Expansion. When the Panama Canal’s third set of larger locks open to commercial traffic this spring, the massive expansion project will be more than a year and a half behind the original target date of October 2014 and an […]
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced on Wednesday that it will be requiring vessels with certain types of cargo to cool their main decks with water at particular points during their transits of the Canal. The requirement, effective immediately and indefinitely, applies to crude oil tankers, product carriers, and chemical tankers with cargoes that have […]
Geisha is a special varietal that is grown here in Boquete and enjoyed in some of the priciest coffee shops around the world. It is truly a special cup. From Dallas Dining News It’s not common, this cup of Panamanian Geisha coffee. The first indication is its place on the special clipboard of Davis Street […]
Update provided by Reuters. Jan 25 Panama’s economy gained some steam in November compared to the same period a year earlier, the government said on Monday. The economy grew 4.31 percent, up from 4.25 percent in October, driven largely by a boost in telecommunications and transportation. Panama’s economy has been cooling as $15 billion of […]
The arrangement involves withholding a portion of the tax on the transfer of movable goods and services, and is mandatory for companies that accept payments using credit and debit cards. Despite the private sector’s proposal in December to postpone it until June 2016 , the entry into force of the obligation to retain 50% by […]
The inventory of apartment buildings and individual houses recorded an increase of almost 7% in the third quarter versus the same period in 2014. From the Quarterly Report by the INEC: The Census of Construction of Buildings, during the third quarter of 2015, investigated 1,325 works, 6.8 percent more than in the same period last […]