Ok, this Saturday and we are pulling into Cartagena, our second trip to Colombia after Medellin in December. This time we are cruising, having left the Port of Colon on the Caribbean side of Panama. I am seeing images of an old, but cool movie Romancing the Stone in my head just thinking about it. […]
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and […]
Bijan Hosseini and Joel Williams report of Noriega’s life and death at CNN. Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker who was once one of Central America’s most notorious military strongmen, has died, according to a tweet by Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela on his verified Twitter account. Noriega, 83, had undergone surgery […]
When our ship, The City of Brooklyn, emerged from the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean, one of our passengers went up to the bridge and borrowed the captain’s binoculars. This man was a retired doctor in the medical corps of the US army and he now wanted to focus on the statue of […]
Yesterday, the President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, signed the legal agreement between the State and Del Monte that will allow the transnational company to invest more than 100 million dollars in the reactivation of banana areas in the western provinces of Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro. After signing the document with Banapiña Panama […]
Here is a country that is on my bucket list. Sweden regularly ranks among the world’s happiest countries, and its new partnership with Airbnb hints at a key reason why: it’s beautiful, and that natural beauty is accessible to all. Really, to all, especially now that Sweden has put the whole country up on Airbnb, […]
Panama says it’s halving the maximum time for tourism visits by people from Colombia, Venezuela and Nicaragua to 90 days. President Juan Carlos Varela’s announcement of the plan Friday comes amid concerns that many visitors have been staying on in Panama after coming as tourists. Panama will also seek to verify that people seeking […]
For those searching for the seclusion of an island but quick access to city life, Hacienda La Perla on Isla Contadora off the coast of Panama could be just the place. The eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom abode is being offered without reserve in an auction by Concierge Auctions on Wednesday. The current listing price is $3.95 million. […]
At a press conference and in the face of continued exchange rate hikes, a Central Bank executive in Costa Rica said that if the public wanted to continue buying dollars, they had billions there. This morning on Thursday, May 25, the price of a dollar 600 colones at some bank windows surpassed, dropping back to […]
Between $91 million and $138 million is the range of proposals presented in the tender to build and operate a wastewater treatment plant in Arraiján Este, a trunk system and its interconnections. The tender consists of designing, constructing, operating and maintaining a wastewater treatment plant in Arraiján Este, a trunk system and its interconnections, and the operation […]