We have been busy this last few weeks buying and selling homes here in Boquete, for ourselves and some clients who have been visiting. The homes that we have been looking at are well built within the last 4 years and have real estate tax exonerations running for more than 15 years. Our home which […]
My friend Mark Darden sent me a link to a great video and song he composed about his youth here in Panama. As a fellow Zonian, I can appreciate his desire and that is what brought me back here. This is Mark’s story. This song is about my home, Panama. I grew up in an […]
Well folks, it is just around the corner. Soon our green season will be over and the summer will be here in Panama. With it comes the endless holidays and festivals, beginning with the Panama Jazz Festival and International Film Festival. One of my favorites is coming in March and the scheduled artist line up […]
A friend of mine is selling his 60 foot Hatteras Yacht- Fish that is moored in Boca del Toro. While it is one of the famous Hatteras configurations, he has spent over $200,000 modifying the boat to be a pure live-aboard vessel. It is fully operational and is like having a floating apartment that […]
Here is a series of articles that appear in CentralAmericaData.com. It is a problem we are facing in light of an explosive economy and unbridled growth in Panama. A lack of qualified personnel, an aging population and legal obstacles preventing the hiring of foreigners are impacting on the competitiveness of businesses. The problem, faced by […]
I know that your calendars are filling up with the upcoming events in 2012 including the Panama City Jazz Fest, the Boquete Jazz Fest, the Panama International Film Fest and every other festival we have annually, but now we can add the Iron Man 70.3 series event to our calendar which is coming in February. […]
I have suggested that you mark your calenders for the Panama Jazz Festival coming in January and I suggest that you take the opportunity to add this to your event calender as well. The Boquete Jazz & Blues Foundation presents: World-Class Jazz & Blues on the slopes of Volcan Baru, March 1-4, 2012 Open-air […]
Yes, here we are enjoying a cup of coffee on our veranda and suddenly the quiet is interrupted by a whine of a high powered turbo engine as a Eurocopter flies and lands just below our villa. Later, I am on the way to the gym and notice a group of younger people who are […]
Tito Puente Jr. Mark your calenders and make your airline reservations, the Panama Jazz Festival is coming! Go Tito!! Click here to see the video 9th Annual Panama Jazz Festival Jan 16 – Jan 21, 2012 Teatro Nacional, Atlapa Convention Center, Plaza de le Catedral Also, the dean of Panama’s saxophonists, Carlos Garnett Click here […]
It is good to see more people visiting Panama and we are not the only country seeing a resurgence in the tourism industry here in Central America. Here is an article fro La Prensa Three years after the global economic downturn, tourists are once again looking at Central America. Tourism in the isthmus grew […]