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 […]
Prensa Latina reports on the upcoming International Trade Fair Expocomer 2017. Cuban Tobacco, Rum among Attractions at Trade Fair in Panama <p><img src=”http://piwik.prensa-latina.cu/piwik.php?idsite=3″ style=”border:0″ alt=”” /></p> The presentation of the new purito Cohíba Short and the tasting of the best Cuban rums stands out today among Cuba”s main attractions at the upcoming International Trade Fair […]
A new bill, agreed between the government and the private sector, expands tax incentives granted to companies in the sector through the Certificate of Industrial Promotion. The text was drafted after the government and the private sector reached consensus on how to define tax incentives to which companies in the sector are entitled to. The project […]
Barney Brantingham of Independent News revists Panama after decades to find huge changes to the City. When I first laid eyes on Panama City many decades ago, it was basically a sleepy, low-profile town. Its only claim to fame was the famed canal. Today, it’s the skyscraper boom town of the hemisphere, boasting a skyline of […]
In 2016 the GDP of the industrial sector shrank by almost 3%, affected by a 12% drop in sugar production and 11% in beverage production. In the last two years, the contribution of the industrial sector to the economy has shrunk by $80 million, according to estimates made by entrepreneurs who are members of the […]
The Civil Aviation Authority will hire an international company to develop a new map of air routes, which will be implemented in 2019. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA by its initials in Spanish) plans to hire an international company with experience in the field to validate a new route map that the institution plans to […]
We have got to do this folks, it is a huge drawing card for Panama. The Tourism Authority is considering redeploying the benefit of free insurance for medical expenses for visitors, but adjusting the scope and term of the coverage. Authorities are assessing the changes that would be needed in order to implement the free […]