Commemorative coins and medals generally celebrate successful endeavors, but a silver medal that Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Nov. 8 Baltimore auction offers was issued for a grand project that was, in hindsight, a failure. The 1880 medal commemorates the French efforts to build the Panama Canal, an effort plagued by a shortage of engineering input […]
Deep Blue Cable has announced that it would extend its planned Caribbean subsea network to Colombia and Panama, changing its original plan to only roll out a high-speed broadband service in underserved Caribbean countries. The move is an apparent bid to grab a slice of the region’s wholesale telecoms market dominated by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s America […]
The Panamanian economy remains bright because of its strong side, logistics, however as it stands today household consumption is not growing, mainly affected by a cumulative inflation of 38% in the last ten years. There has been a notable increase in the prices of fundamental items in the family basket, such as housing, food, and […]
The first phase of the “Gorgas Campus” project includes construction of the research and biosafety laboratory buildings at levels 2 and 3, the transport warehouse and the water treatment plant and administration area. From a statement issued by the Ministry of Economy and Finance: The National Economic Council today approved a loan agreement with the […]
In 2016 imports of home and office furniture in Panama totaled $127 million, and the value imported from Brazil grew by 4% compared to 2015..” Figures from the information system on the Market for Home and Office Furniture and Accessories in Panama, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAPHIC caption = “Click to […]
The Environmental Impact Study for the 2-kilometer extension of the Metro to Tocumen Airport’s passenger terminal has been approved and the publication of the tender rules for the adjudication of the work with an estimated amount of $125 million was announced. The director of Metro de Panama, Robert Roy, announced that at the end of […]
Holidays are big events in Panama, and November is the pick of the litter for celebratory months. Days off work, colorful traditional clothing, and musical parades… Panamanians dancing up and down the streets in major cities, hosting family parties, and spinning the revelry out as long as they can. Here is a list that Ben […]
Justin and Chris just opened their new venue on the beach in Puerto Armuelles and Susie and I are going to visit and play with the monkey!! Click here to see the video on the Beach Club and Hotel. Next is Weightless !! I have also been watching this guy, French paragliding champion Jean-Baptiste Chandelier who […]
Some one was asleep at the switch when they came of with this one. Shipping and clearing customs can take more than 30 days so how is this going to work?? A bill proposes obliging importers of used vehicles to submit a certificate of technical-mechanical revision and gas control, which must be issued at […]
My friend Joseph Brodsky just set a new record here in Panama. His finca is tucked away in the high mountains west of Volcan and is state of the art. His master pickers insure that they do not overlook the best of the best and his processors control the product from bush to bag to […]