Panama Road, Rail, Air Freight Market Comprehensive Insights and Global Briefing 2021 to 2026


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2021 Panama Road, Rail, Air Freight Market – Size, Share, COVID Impact Analysis and Forecast to 2027 is comprehensive research with in-depth data and contemporary analysis of Panama Road, Rail, Air Freight Market at a global, regional and key country level, split by different sub-segments of the industry. Panama Road, Rail, Air Freight Market is quickly reaching […]

March 9, 2021

Panama vs Costa Rica: The Facts on Applying for Residency


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Establishing residency in Panama or Costa Rica could offer many advantages for international entrepreneurs. But selecting a country that meets personal needs and understanding the regulation surrounding the residency process can be a challenge. Applicants need to know the facts. “I would encourage all entrepreneurs to consider moving to these countries but it depends whether they want […]

March 9, 2021

Panama’s national beauty contest opens to transgender women


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Transgender women will from this year be able to compete in Panama’s national beauty contest, the organizers said on Monday. The Señorita Panama pageant, which sends a contestant from the Central American country to the international Miss Universe competition, said transgender women who have completed legal and medical processes would be welcome to compete. “Following […]

March 9, 2021

Panama to buy 2 million more doses of Pfizer vaccine


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Panama has authorized the purchase of nearly 2 million shots of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for close to $24 million, adding to earlier agreements to buy 3 million doses from the U.S. drugmaker, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Panama has so far received three shipments of the Pfizer Inc /BioNtech vaccine with nearly 158,000 doses, […]

March 9, 2021

Australian couple stranded overseas make bold decision to SAIL home from Central America after wasting thousands of dollars on cancelled flights – even though they have NO experience on the water


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Australian couple have decided to sail home from Panama, in Central America Jake Shepherd and Tamara Ilic have tried to fly home on numerous occasions Their flights have been cancelled and the couple say they are at their wit’s end Neither of them have ever sailed before and the voyage will take four months An […]

March 9, 2021

Hyatt’s Unbound Collection Is Expanding to Panama


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Hyatt’s Unbound Collection, one of the company’s independent hotel collections, is expanding to Panama, Caribbean Journal has learned. The company will be debuting its first Unbound Collection by Hyatt in Panama City with the Hotel La Compañia. The new property is part of the company’s broader hotel pipeline for the Unbound brand. It’s slated for […]

March 9, 2021

Panama sees light at the end of covid tunnel


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Panama registered in the last week the lowest positivity percentages in the Covid-19 pandemic so far. On Friday it was 5.1%; on Thursday, 6.3%, and Wednesday, 7.1%. In July and December 2020, when there were spikes in Covid-19 cases nationwide, the percentages were around 30%. For the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), when the percentage […]

March 9, 2021

Finca Dos Jefes and the Panamanian coffee industry


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Finca Dos Jefes covers about seven acres located in El Salto above the town of Boquete. The mission of the staff–-owners Rich Lipner and Dee Harris (the Dos Jefes in the name), production manager Amy Pescod, and foreman Lazaro Cedeño– is to produce coffee that is sustainable to both the coffee and the workers who […]

March 8, 2021

The Power of The Panama Perspective


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So after coming to Panama in 2006, I decided to retire from over 30 years in commercial real estate in Miami, Florida.  While I had completed over $1 B in transactions, I saw a bubble building rapidly and decided after 3 recessions, I might skip the one coming. So we moved here permanently the following […]

March 7, 2021