Panama remains among the main financial hubs in the world of the thirty-second edition of the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) that was published on September 22, 2022, one of the reference sources of rankings in this sector, which places New York and London in the top positions. In version 23 of this year’s GFCI, […]
Former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli said Tuesday that the trial against him for allegedly collecting bribes from Brazil’s Odebrecht is “rigged” and affirmed before a crowd that he is willing to have his “balls cut off” if he is proven guilty. This occurred in the middle of the preliminary hearing in the Odebrecht case in […]
Dimitri Flores, a independent candidate seeking to stand in elections in 2024, posted the video from the scene after his aircraft crashed in a mountainous area in western Panama. The helicopter was carrying six people, including Mr Flores, all of whom have since been rescued. Some of them have broken bones. “We had an accident […]
This is not the first time that Daniel Runde, senior executive of the Center for International Strategic Studies, has written about the Panama Canal. He did so in 2011 when he analyzed the impact of the expansion of the road. In 2017, he described the exchange of messages between President Donald Trump and Panamanian Juan […]
Click on the pictures for videos below of our coffee tour It was late Sunday night when I saw an email come in from my friend Rich who had just returned from Europe after 4 weeks of eating his way through Italy and France with his wife Dee. I was almost out of my month’s […]
Boquete is our home. I sometimes forget how lucky Susie and I are for the privilege of saying that. It was our anniversary weekend last week so we packed up and headed to my favorite place on the beach, Las Lajas Beach Resort. We arrived in time for lunch and when on the beach, […]
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 […]
Click on the above picture for a aerial tour of Boquete Club Boquete Country Club is a truly inspirational master planned gated community located just five minutes from the town of Boquete. The design of Boquete Country Club, promises a different and special lifestyle. Combining a myriad of leisure facilities and world-class infrastructure including a […]
How cool would this be!! It was over 100 ago when the RMS Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. Now, for the right price, adventurous tourists may have the opportunity to see the shipwreck first hand aboard a manned submersible. The […]