High sulfur bunker fuel prices in Panama rose to the highest level in more than 14 months, with market participants reporting a lack of product. Prices for IFO 380 CST grades in Latin America’s biggest market for bunker fuel were assessed up $8 to $290/mt in the ports of Balboa and Cristobal on Friday, surpassing […]
The night US forces invaded Panama, Roberto Duran ran home from a bar to get his gun. He was too drunk to defend his homeland. He passed out instead. It is one of many colourful episodes in the life of the Panamanian boxing champion — now immortalised in a new film, Hands of Stone with […]
It has been announced that the German tour operator TUI Group will include Colon province among its destinations starting from November this year. From a statement issued by the Tourism Authority of Panama: Berlin, October 19, 2016. The main tour operator in the world, TUI GROUP, has informed President Juan Carlos Varela of its decision […]
Panama’s Copa Holdings has unveiled a new low-cost carrier, Wingo, as it aims to turn its loss-making Colombian operations around. Bogota-based Wingo will operate its first flight on 1 December, and will take over all of Copa Colombia’s routes except its flights to and from Panama City. Copa expects Wingo to produce a profit from […]
Meet Betty Landis, President of Boquete Hospice and Health Foundation. I did last week in an attempt to find out more about this great organization. My only contact before was when a neighbor needed a hospital bed for her mother and we went down to their warehouse where they lent it out for free for […]
The old and the new exist alongside one another in Panama City’s Casco Viejo, the historic city center founded by the Spanish in the late 1600s. Colonial-era buildings and decrepit homes claimed by squatters stand near new hotels in a neighborhood where trendiness and exclusivity portend gentrification. But the tug between the present and the […]
The union of poultry farmers reported an increase of 8% in the first ten months of the year compared to the same period in 2015. The National Association of Poultry Farmers of Panama (ANAVIP) recorded an increase in consumption of poultry meat in the country, of up to 87 pounds per person at the end […]
The Republic of Panama has hired New York-based consulting and communications agency Bellwether Strategies Inc. to promote the Central American country’s commercial and diplomatic objectives with a worldwide outreach and media relations campaign. According to Foreign Agents Registration Act documents filed on October 4, the Embassy of Panama has hired Bellwether to represent the Panamanian […]
Container ship transits through the Panama Canal are running well below capacity following its $5.25 billion widening, according to ocean carriers that use the Central American waterway. The canal, the larger locks of which opened at the end of June, can handle vessels up to 14,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units, compared with the previous limit of about 5,000 […]
Artisanal roasters seeking the next great specialty coffee have descended on Congo despite Kalashnikovs and corruption; ‘good body and nonthreatening complexity’ A dozen artisanal coffee aficionados from around the world hovered their noses above cups of steaming grounds and inhaled deeply. Then they tasted the coffee, swishing or chewing it, spit out the leftovers and […]