If you are going to deposit money in a bank in Panama, do your homework. While rates stay strong at 3 to 5%, be careful. I am opting for Banco General is one of the best banks and strong compared to some of the others. I have also noticed a decline in service like Scotiabank […]
Through Executive Decree No. 722 of October 15, 2020, Panama has created the subcategory of Permanent Resident as a Qualified Investor; It is specifically focused on those foreigners who invest, at least, an amount of $ 500,000.00 from a foreign source, which may be in a personal capacity or through a legal entity, in which […]
I follow Simon black on a daily basis. He is a successful international businessman who has a good understanding of what is going on these days. With a new government and president comes a lot of questions. A- What is going on? B- What should I do about it. Let’s start with A- What is […]
As soon we get vaccinated, we are good to go cruising!! Check out this small-ship cruise ship line. Stay Safe!!
Travelers arriving by plane in Panama having stayed in South America for 15 days or more will have to follow the new anti-covid-19 protocols in force since Monday, health and immigration authorities announced. In addition to submitting a negative PCR or COVID-19 antigen test carried out within the previous 48 hours at the airport of […]
The Savings Bank is a state bank, which is governed by the rules of the market as if it were another in the square. But there have been occasions when, because it is a state bank, some take advantage of it and its behavior ceases to be that of another bank to be the bank […]
Press freedom, according to a ranking by the prestigious Reporters Without Borders organization, begins to suffer the consequences of a closed and non-transparent policy when the media tries to report corruption issues. In this last measurement, freedom of the press in Panama dropped one notch, ranking 77 out of 180 countries studied. “Journalists in Panama […]
Panama will purchase another 2 million doses of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s vaccine against COVID-19, bringing its total purchase of this vaccine to about 7 million doses, the government said on Tuesday. The Central American nation has already received about 600,000 doses of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s vaccine. With the additional purchase, the government said […]
Climate change has caused ocean levels on Panama’s Atlantic Coast to rise by almost 10 inches. It is threatening the ancestral island homelands of the Guna tribe and many are resigned to leaving for the mainland as the waters wash in. The Gunas of the San Blas archipelago make their living from fishing, small-scale farming […]
Some of the technological tools that will be used in the coming years to increase agricultural productivity include the use of devices connected to the Internet that can create self-regulating microclimates in greenhouses and crop monitoring through aerial images. Business Intelligence solutions used by agricultural companies have the ability to transform maps and images into structured […]