Susie and I go to the annual Flower Festival and will this year. As usual and I will get my annual purchase of one of the better cowboy hats from Colombia as well as my designer $3 sunglasses made by? in ?. It is always a great time and we are very lucky to have […]
Panama concluded 2018 dealing a hard blow to narcotrafficking with Operation Shield (Operación Escudo), a joint initiative of Panamanian security branches that kicked off October 1st. In just three months, the Panamanian Public Force seized nearly 25 tons of drugs and arrested more than 120 people in several operations throughout the country. According to the […]
Jaco Beach resident and super kayaker Lance Clinton leaves New Year’s Day for Panama as one of 12 finalists selected worldwide to compete in the annual “winner-take-all” Los Buzos Panama Kayak Fishing World Championship 2019. Clinton, 49, a former stock broker from Seattle, was chosen by the event’s organizers as Costa Rica’s top kayak fisherman. […]
Pope Francis’s 17-ton vehicle was flown to Panama City from Bogota, Colombia, on Dec. 28, as Panama prepared to host him for the Catholic Church’s World Day of Youth in January. See the video
Starting 22 Jan., at least 300,000 young people from all over the world will participate in the World Youth Day in Panama. As always, there will be no shortage of music. The organization has brought together more than 200 artists from 46 countries. Among them, these eight Latin singers and bands. For Nico Fernandez, it […]
Governor Parson says the Panama Canal expansion is an opportunity to make greater use of the Mississippi River for shipping agriculture products. Listen to the audio here
The Panama Canal expansion, which began commercial operation in 2016, has added a wider traffic lane and doubled its capacity to accommodate large container ships. These ships carry over 13,000 TEUs and some exceed 22,000 TEUs. Because of the influx in large ships, seaports across the globe are experiencing bottlenecks, customs delays and the need […]
The recovery of the Colon Duty-Free Zone (Zolicol) in Panama´s Caribbean was sustained during the period June-November 2018 and the zone’s administration celebrates today because it considers it a triumph of international trade. Without including December results, this year the trade movement in values was of 19 billion 641.1 million dollars, 9.5 percent more […]
Decades have passed since tiny Panama ranked among Washington’s big national security concerns. The 1989 U.S. invasion notwithstanding, the two nations have enjoyed largely cordial relations since the Panama Canal handover in December 1999. A boom in canal transits that include two-thirds of cargo ships traveling to or from the United States helped keep Panama […]
When Hannah Rothwell decided to attend World Youth Day in Kraków, Poland in 2016, she was a 19-year-old atheist who did not know anyone else going. Now, she makes regular pilgrimages from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to religious sites in Washington. Though her parents are Catholic, Rothwell –a senior at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg […]