If you own a home in Boquete or Boca Chica and might consider a move to Brazil, you should look at this opportunity. We have a friend who visited our community here in Valle Escondido and has decided to sell his home in Brazil and move here. He has a beautiful seaside villa on the […]
So much for Panama exporting coffee, we cannot grow enough so now we are importing it for local consumption. CentralAmericaData.com recently published this article. The Cabinet Council has authorized the importation of 32 million quintales of coffee due to shortages. The Cabinet Council gave permission to the Commission for Licensing of Contingency Tariffs to place […]
American Economia published this interesting article recently as well as a link to the interview with Frits van Paasschen at Starwood The global hotel chain Starwood expands its strategy in Latin America: breaking its dependence on the Sheraton brand and launches some cool concepts for the luxury segment. For Frits van Paasschen, the stars do not make much […]
The Latin Business Chronicle reports that Panama has Latin America’s highest percent of FDI, while Venezuela has the lowest. PANAMA CITY – Panama has replaced Chile as Latin America’s leading recipient of foreign direct investment as a percent of its GDP, according to a Latin Business Chronicle analysis of new data from the UN the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and GDP data from […]
I am often asked the question, what’s up with Panama? I am planning a trip and want to know what to do while I am there. Well this in from The Independent gives you a few ideas. Panama has been undergoing one of Latin America’s biggest hotel booms to date and it shows no sign […]
The coffee growers in Panama are happy this year and this could continue in the future. This in from El Periodico. The price of grain on the Intercontinental Exchange in New York reached its highest level in the past 34 years. Coffee farmers around the world watched yesterday as the price of grain exceeded the […]
Virgin Coastal Peninsulas, Islands, Beachfront and the incredible lifestyle in the beautiful country of Panama. While I have visited and lived on many islands, the islands and peninsulas that jut out into the Pacific waters of Panama are some of the most majestic and beautiful ones of all. Rugged shorelines, desolate sandy beaches, howler monkeys that come down from […]
In the search for our roots, I continue to come across people of interest who like myself, was born here in the Panama Canal Zone. I came across an individual that appeared in a recent post and I looked her up to see what she does. Born in the American Canal Zone at the Isthmus of Panama, […]
I recently read an article in The Visitante that spoke to one of Panama’s greates resources that is just now being tapped. I have mixed emotions about the subject after watching the fishery in South Florida deteriorate over the 35 years that I lived in South Florida and hope that Panama does not have the […]
I always wondered what Nikki Beach would be doing here in Panama when the development team was announced over a year ago. Well today it looks like they will be doing nothing. At first the news was disappointing that Nikki Beach pulled it name from the project that just opened and then the news […]