I just got back from two spectacular days in Boca Chica. This place never ceases to amaze me. You really need to visit and perhaps invest here before the rush that will take place in the future when our nearby International Airport is finished and open for direct flights form overseas. Where else can […]
Well, it looks like we are finally going to see the plans for the new convention center become a reality. New location, but a better one in my opinion. Days after the government announced its intention to sell the Atlapa Convention Center, it has announced a tender for January, for the design and construction of […]
The hotels on the gold coast of Panama are experiencing very high occupancy rates and with the new International Airport coming to Rio Hato I believe that we are going to see another Punta Cana type explosion of rooms in the future This in from the Panama America Pacific beaches of Panama, specifically the province […]
There was an excellent article in the Miami Herald this week where Andres Oppenheimer covered two recent meetings of Central American leaders. By Andres Oppenheimer aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com While Saturday’s summit that created a Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC) in Venezuela drew big headlines, a little-noticed meeting of five Latin American Pacific rim countries […]
Two new projects have begun in Panama that signal the continued growth here. This in from CentralAmericaData.com Manzanillo International Terminal Expansion. A $200 million investment has been announced which will be used to dredge the access channel, a new turning basin, three Panamax docks, more areas for containers and nine gantry cranes. A press release […]
This very interesting report was sent to me by one of my readers who works for the Inter-America Development Bank. “I found this report interesting, particularly from your “perspective”, as it ranks Panama fairly high: 37th out of 110 countries for which data is available, and in the Americas it ranks only after Canada, USA, […]
After Panama President Ricardo Martinelli visited France and suggested to his counter part that he retract a comment made at a G-20 Summit meeting about Panama being a tax haven, all seemed well and good after veiled apologies. Then a week later comes French Budget Minister Valérie Pécresse, who claimed that Panama was not cooperating […]
Don Winner posted an article from the Utah Park Record newspaper on his Panama Guide that covered the first Panamanian Bobsled Team known as “The Spirit of Panama.” When I saw that my friend Chris Zollinger a lead lawyer from Mossack Fonseca was involved, I dashed off an email of congratulations and he replied with […]
Photography is both an art and a science. Photography allows us to express our feeling and emotions and capture the soul of people around you. Mark Heyer is a friend of mine here in Boquete who continues to show me the talent that comes from the true enjoyment of what he does. Here in his […]
I can remember my first trip to Panama and flying into David on a prop plane that looked like it had seen many years of service. Of course, having traveled all over the world many time over many years it did not phase me. I remember flying a DC 3 into the interior when […]