From August 26 to September 30 eight properties will be auctioned, including one in Albrook and another in Davis, with starting prices of $1.4 million and $3.2 million respectively. The auction of Lot AL02-40, located in Albrook and which has a total of 4,456 square meters is scheduled for August 26, and the starting value […]
Legendary Panamanian singer-songwriter, Ruben Blades, who is hailed as one of the most important Latin American voices of his time, will perform one of his last Salsa music concerts this weekend in Coral Gables. But for the 68-year-old composer, the performance — part of his farewell tour, “Walking, goodbye and thank you” — is not […]
Last Sunday we joined a number of friends at one of the best brunches I have had here in Boquete. My friend Mark Heyer did the honors with some creative pan shots. As advertised, they delivered big time! Gourmet Buffet Internationally inspired: Asian Appetizers, Panama Peppers, Graved Salmon Alaska Style, French Pate, German Pork Roast, […]
This is a great story from Lori Borgman who I introduced to you earlier this year with her story on “The Death of Common Sense”. BTW, I encourage you to buy her book and read it as it is one of the best written pieces about how far we have come or better yet how […]
Your $1 admission helps us keep the doors open 10:30 in the BCP Theater Tuesday, August 16 –Retirement and relocating are fun, right? And exciting, correct? And maybe a bit intimidating and challenging. Come join Sharon Brooks in a fun and playful morning of refreshing our likability skills. We will refresh our ability to […]
No one is happier than the U.S. shale industry, which now has its sights set on Asia. This in from Bloomberg. When the Panama Canal’s expanded locks slid open in late June, perhaps no one was happier than executives in the U.S. shale industry. With the goal of making the U.S. a global powerhouse for […]
Thank goodness for rain on Gatun Lake! The Panama Canal Authority has revised upward the draft restriction for vessels transiting the Neopanamax locks to 13.41 meters (44 feet) effective immediately. “This draft limit is based on the current level of Gatun Lake and the weather forecast for the following weeks,” the authority, also known as […]
Another proposal in addition to the one suggested to the government by the company Del Monte, seeks to revive banana production on the 1,700 hectares owned by the former employees of Coosemupar. The proposal put forward by the Atlantic Banana Cooperative (Cobana) includes a feasibility study which states that “… the projection is that from […]
At the end of the year-end a $30 million tender will be published to build a cruise ship port in an area measuring 30 hectares in Perico Island, on the Amador Causeway. In addition to construction of the port, the tender specifications include the design and construction of commercial spaces to provide services for the […]
A 42-year-old South African woman has been arrested at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama with 5kg of cocaine worth more than R4.5-million, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) said on Friday. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda of the Hawks said: “The woman was about to board a flight to Lisbon via Sao Jose and […]