Duperat Laurette fled Haiti after her country’s massive 2010 earthquake, making her way first to the Dominican Republic, then Chile and five years later to Panama, all with the dream of reaching the U.S. and finding a job to help support 14 siblings left behind in Haiti. The coronavirus finally stopped her. Panama, the slender […]
Water supply issues have plagued the Panama Canal for years. When rainfall is limited and nearby lakes begin to get low, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has to implement draft restrictions in order to keep the canal running, limiting the amount of cargo vessels may carry across the canal. Now, just four years after the […]
After five months of disrupted travel service as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Panama-based Copa Airlines announced plans to resume operations from Orlando International Airport. Initially, Copa will operate up to four weekly flights connecting from Orlando via Tocumen International Airport in Panama on: Sept. 4: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador; and Panama […]
We have been asked by several people to share Our Plan B. It started in 2006 and evolved since then. It is still evolving today, changing as our environment does. Let me begin by telling you what I did. I started with my Plan B in 2006 as I saw another wave of recession indicators […]
There’s been a pretty obvious and radical shift in Western civilization. And it’s not one for the better. Right in front of our eyes, just over the span of a few months government over-regulation and lockdowns have become the new normal. Violent protests and riots are commonplace and the rise of Marxists and Bolsheviks who […]
Arguing reasons of force majeure, the construction company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas requested the Panamanian Social Security Fund to unilaterally cancel the contract for the construction of the hospital complex. This mega-project has been delayed for several years. Initially the contract for the design, construction and financing of the Hospital City was awarded in 2011 to the business group Fomento de […]
After five months of restrictions on productive activities, the Panamanian business sector proposes to shorten the dates of the “Updated Plan for National-Provincial Reopening” and to set that schedule in September. For the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Panama (CCIAP), the country is not only experiencing a health pandemic, it is also in the midst […]
Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo, sanctioned the law that creates the Special Regime for the Establishment and Operation of Multinational Companies for the Provision of Services related to Manufacturing. After the deputies of the Panamanian Assembly approved in the third debate last month the bill that aims to promote investments in this context of economic crisis that derives from the outbreak […]
This is dumb move by Costa Rica and will certainly kill foreign relocation there. Currently in Costa Rica a territorial income system is applied, which consists of taxing profits produced exclusively at the local level. If the Income Tax Law is modified, the situation could change. On August 24th, the project called “Law for the inclusion of […]
Group from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute invited by the Panama Canal Authority to collect fish during the process of emptying and cleaning the Miraflores locks. After the locks were emptied, the team descends a scaffolding stairwell to the base of the chamber. They used nets to capture fish. Stay Safe!!