This guy is incredible and he has woven what is perhaps the finest Panama hat in haberdashery history. Here is the story from Roff Smith for NPR. Early one morning in June, a Panama hat weaver named Simon Espinal sat down to work at a wooden table in his house in Pile, an obscure village […]
The expansion of the Panama Canal will be the headline event in shipping in 2016. The $5 billion project promises to reorient the landscape of the logistics industry and alter the decision-making calculus of the shippers that the canal serves. According to research conducted jointly by The Boston Consulting Group and C.H. Robinson, as much […]
The month of August calls for savoring the last bit of summer fun, and what better way than with a little rum. In honor of National Rum Month, we’ve created a list of the best rum cocktails to order on vacation from Guatemala, to Panama City, to the Caribbean and beyond! If you can’t visit any […]
Julie Wernau reports for The Wall Street Journal. Demand for specialty brands has roasters leaving futures exchanges. Specialty-coffee buyers are turning to unusual pricing plans, using alternative benchmarks, even directly investing in producer farms. Consumer demand for better-tasting coffee is splitting the coffee market in two. A growing number of coffee roasters that deal in […]
The Insurance Regulator has ordered that administrative and operational control be taken of the Venezuelan company Seguros Constitución, for allegedly failing to comply with a regularization plan required by the regulator. The company began operations in Panama in 2008, “… it has about $2 million in cumulative premiums and ranked 12th out of the 30 […]
20 stores expected to open in Panama City over next five years with Premium Restaurants of America, Starbucks long-term licensing partner in Central America Building on over a decade of sourcing coffee from Panama, Starbucks® stores in Panama City will feature Starbucks® premium, single-origin Starbucks Reserve™ Panama Carmen Estate coffee, sourced from Panama’s Volcán Chiriquí […]
This is a troubling story that has been going on for a decade now. This piece is an opinion published by Wren Greaney, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. On June 25, a former Panamanian notary public filed a complaint with Panama’s federal prosecutor’s office against the shareholders of one of the most […]
Here is a great article in Forbes that my friend Chuck Bolotin sent me. Ever dreamed of retiring abroad? The lower cost of living…the relaxed lifestyle…the gorgeous weather… Well, that’s what it’s supposed to be like. But how does that all square with reality? A new survey has the answers. The Best Places in the […]
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has warned of possible draft restrictions to transiting vessels due to the dramatic effects of the weather phenomenon “El Nino”. The term El Nino refers to the large-scale ocean-atmosphere climate phenomenon linked to a periodic warming in sea-surface temperatures across the tropical Pacific. In the Panama Canal this phenomenon generally […]
Panama’s government has filed a lawsuit seeking the Supreme Court to cancel a $125 million contract with Italy’s Finmeccanica that was signed under former President Ricardo Martinelli, citing corruption concerns. Authorities suspended the contract last year, flagging suspected bribery and stating that the 19 radars ordered from Silex, a subsidiary of the Italian firm in […]