Jackie Wyer says goodbye to Patrick Van der Zijden, skipper of the Zhuhai, one of 10 70-foot-long ocean yachts that departed Seattle on Saturday for the next leg of the Clipper Round the World Race. They’ll arrive in Panama in about a month. Van der Zijden, who is Dutch, has logged more than 200,000 nautical […]
Last year, Panama expanded the Cordillera de Coiba marine protected area from 17,223 to 67,908 square kilometers (6,650 to 26,219 square miles). On April 27th, an international scientific expedition made up of researchers and students from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), MigraMar, the International Maritime University of Panama (UMIP), the University of Costa Rica and […]
Panama may not be the largest export market for U-S pork, but never-the-less, National Pork Producers Council officials say it is an important market. The free trade agreement created ten years ago is about to expire, and NPPC president, Terry Wolters says pork producers want to see the trade agreement continue. Wolters says anytime the […]
The number of migrants crossing the treacherous Darien Gap linking Colombia and Panama more than doubled in the first quarter of 2022 compared with the year-earlier period, led by Venezuelans, Panamanian officials said on Tuesday. In the first three months of the year, 13,425 people crossed the region compared with 5,622 people in the same […]
Mobile phone operator Digicel said Wednesday it plans to wind down operations in Panama following the government’s approval of a merger between competitors Cable & Wireless Panama (CWP) and Claro. The merger, in which the Panamanian government will be a 49% shareholder and gives the companies 56% of the market, “effectively spells the end of […]
The Panama Canal Authority proposed a comprehensive restructuring of its toll system on Friday, which would increase rates charged on cargo such as vehicles, oil and gas and soybeans that cross the waterway as ocean shippers rake in record profits. The changes would reduce the current structure to fewer than 60 tariffs from 430 now and focus […]
ASSIGNMENT OF A UNIQUE REGISTRATION CODE (HEREINAFTER “CUR”): Every lawyer or law firm that intends to provide resident agent services for Panamanian legal entities must be registered in the Unique System of the Superintendence of Non-Financial Subjects. After their registration, the Superintendence of Non-Financial Subjects will assign a Unique Registration Code (hereinafter “CUR”) to each […]
Recent seizures of illegally sourced wood in Panama have highlighted the important role the country plays the international timber trade, due to both its strategic geographical position and valuable species of trees on its territory. On March 28 and 31, Panamanian police seized two containers at ports in the northern city of Colón, carrying a […]
It can be heard said on the streets of Panama that boxing transcends sport in that country and is in fact a religion in itself. Several generations of people have grown up knowing that one of the greatest fighters of all time, Roberto “Manos de Piedra” (Hands of Stone) Duran, was born in that Central […]
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 […]