Plan to sell off panama’s ‘crown jewel’ of protected areas has world worried about similar schemes elsewhere. Debate has erupted over a development plan for Panama’s Coiba National Park — a World Heritage Site. Critics are worried it could unleash harmful development and be a bellwether for plans to degrade and damage other protected areas around […]
Great news for this part of Panama. China Railway International Group and Constructora Urbana are the two companies that submitted their proposals in the tender to renovate 98 kilometers of roads in Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro, Panama. The companies that submitted offers were Consorcio de Vías y Puentes del Istmo (China Railway International Group), with […]
Representatives from the Panama Canal, led by Administrator Jorge L. Quijano, hosted executives from U.S. LNG exporter Cheniere Energy, Inc. to discuss the waterway’s growing LNG vessel segment and opportunities for future growth. With LNG emerging as its newest and fastest-growing segment, the Panama Canal has worked closely with shippers as part of an ongoing […]
The head of the office of the State Council for Chinese Diaspora Affairs, Qiu Yuanping, assured that the establishment of relations with Panama was the most important diplomatic achievement in 2017. In a press reléase, the Panamanian foreign ministry referred the evaluation took place during the meeting between President Juan Carlos Varela and the […]
Sid Evans writes in Coastal Living about his favorite Central American getaway. Our family of four had just settled into an open-air cabin at a small eco-lodge and chocolate farm called La Loma, on Isla Bastimentos in Panama, when we heard a muffled thump in the forest. My wife, Susan, abruptly stopped unpacking. “Did you […]
Here is part 2 of our series of road trips here in Panama on the Chiriqui coast in the province where we live. We are extremely fortunate to have found this place when we first came here twelve years ago. Like many people, my wife and I often took trips abroad to see other lands with […]
We have been taking people around Boquete looking at places to live, invest in land and business opportunities and every-time I go out, I see another place that reminds me of the first trip that I took here in 2006. On my first road trip to Boquete, I knew I had finally found a place that I had […]
NOW PLAYING IN PANAMA CITY – PANAMA THE MUSICAL NOW PLAYING IN BOQUETE – BOQUETE JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL COMING SOON – INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN PANAMA APRIL 5 – 11 CLICK ON THE ABOVE BANNERS TO SEE MORE I hope that you take the opportunity to come visit Panama this year and see what […]
My friend John Hampton of NotSereyus Productions sent me some video from his latest adventure traveling by high speed cat to the Pearl Islands. Great Vid John!
I was reading this piece from Lori and I can’t stop feeling anger at Washington for not doing something about the safety of our children in school. After 911 the world changed and airport security became a standard. We have front desks in many schools where students check in but school shooters don’t check in at […]