The old and the new exist alongside one another in Panama City’s Casco Viejo, the historic city center founded by the Spanish in the late 1600s. Colonial-era buildings and decrepit homes claimed by squatters stand near new hotels in a neighborhood where trendiness and exclusivity portend gentrification. But the tug between the present and the […]
The union of poultry farmers reported an increase of 8% in the first ten months of the year compared to the same period in 2015. The National Association of Poultry Farmers of Panama (ANAVIP) recorded an increase in consumption of poultry meat in the country, of up to 87 pounds per person at the end […]
The Republic of Panama has hired New York-based consulting and communications agency Bellwether Strategies Inc. to promote the Central American country’s commercial and diplomatic objectives with a worldwide outreach and media relations campaign. According to Foreign Agents Registration Act documents filed on October 4, the Embassy of Panama has hired Bellwether to represent the Panamanian […]
Container ship transits through the Panama Canal are running well below capacity following its $5.25 billion widening, according to ocean carriers that use the Central American waterway. The canal, the larger locks of which opened at the end of June, can handle vessels up to 14,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units, compared with the previous limit of about 5,000 […]
Artisanal roasters seeking the next great specialty coffee have descended on Congo despite Kalashnikovs and corruption; ‘good body and nonthreatening complexity’ A dozen artisanal coffee aficionados from around the world hovered their noses above cups of steaming grounds and inhaled deeply. Then they tasted the coffee, swishing or chewing it, spit out the leftovers and […]
Taiwan has resumed its technical cooperation program with Panama, interrupted in 2012, allocating one million dollars for the prevention of the HLB disease, a pest in Central America which has decimated the citrus production and was detected in February in the Panama province of Bocas del Toro. Taiwan’s ambassador in Panama, José María Liu, told […]
This is a good article by Guillermo Rodrieguez Gonzalez on how Capitalism may be on the threshold of its definitive globalization and its impact on reducing poverty. We are seeing it in our province where the workers on farms are becoming more educated, healthier and may one day no longer provide the labor our agricultural […]
It’s a vibrant weekend for Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach as she toured the Republic of Panama. The beauty queen crossed off “seeing the Panama Canal” from her bucket list, tried Panamanian food, and she helped build a house—all done in style, of course. Check out the highlights of the #PIAnama weekend.
So, our only supplier had problems with a fire in their factory that make egg cartons and we find ourselves in need of importing them. I stopped buying eggs in the grocery store years ago and instead buy huevos de patio or back yard chicken eggs at the vegetable market as they are much better […]
In Costa Rica there will never be a Metro, nor an urban electric train, nor any type of efficient public transport system simply because it does not suit the bus companies. EDITORIAL Lack of strong political leadership and a government with real capabilities is preventing Costa Rica from making the indispensable -and also inevitable- changes […]