One week after works on construction projects in Panama were halted, the losses caused from each day of strike have been estimated at $30 million. “… The Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDE), one of the most important business associations in the country, said today that Panama is losing close to 30 million dollars every day […]
This year the Ministry of Education plans to allocate $92.5 million for the construction, renovation and maintenance of schools in different areas of the country. Authorities at the Ministry of Education (Meduca) explained that out of the $92.5 million, almost $76 million will go towards building and renovating schools nationwide, and another $17 million will […]
Tuna Tuna Tuna!!! Those magic words that electrify a fisherman. Watch as YoZuri visits to fish with my friend Captain Shane Jarvis as they “catch em up”. His private chef Lee makes some amazing sushi and sashimi after a long day fishing back at the lodge. Click on the picture to watch the video
Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa has set a new world record for the biggest wave ever surfed. The record-setting ride took place last November when Koxa was towed into wave measuring a massive 80 feet tall during an enormous swell at Praia de Norte in Nazaré, Portugal. The record-setting ride has been confirmed by the Guinness […]
Venezuela and Panama on Thursday agreed to restore their respective ambassadors and reestablish air links as they sought to patch up a bitter diplomatic row, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday. “We have agreed to return ambassadors to Panama and Venezuela … and resume air links from tomorrow,” Maduro told reporters after speaking by phone […]
A group of clipper yachts took off from Seattle on Sunday to head toward Panama. It’s leg seven of a race around the world. Getting to Panama should take the yachts about 26 days. After that, they’ll continue to New York City and eventually to the finish line in Liverpool, England. The 11 teams have […]
Nanette Witmer is an avid writer at International Living and covers a story about a couple who moved to David. Nita Sosebee and Bernie Gaider lived in Colorado Springs before moving to Panama in January 2017. Both worked over 20 years in Colorado as software developers. “We were interested in trying out an early retirement, or […]
Currency expert Steve Hanke — a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University — has long advocated dollarization as a way for countries like Argentina and Venezuela to dramatically reduce inflation almost immediately. My friend Joachim Bamrud writes for Latinvex about how Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama are dollarized economies and are the […]
Orlando Avendano writes for PanAm Post and discusses how socialism doomed Venezuela and will do the same in Nicaragua. In Venezuela, at least four processes of dialogue have taken place between the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro and the representatives of the Venezuelan official opposition in the last four years. All in vain. Unfruitful. Small victories […]
Panama is a tiny slip of land with a surprisingly giant place in the natural, commercial, and human history of the Western Hemisphere. Now, it hopes to enlarge its influence in film and TV, addressing its own complicated history with notable projects while spotlighting the best of a Spanish-language industry that reaches three continents. I […]