Container ship transits through the Panama Canal are running well below capacity following its $5.25 billion widening, according to ocean carriers that use the Central American waterway. The canal, the larger locks of which opened at the end of June, can handle vessels up to 14,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units, compared with the previous limit of about 5,000 […]
Artisanal roasters seeking the next great specialty coffee have descended on Congo despite Kalashnikovs and corruption; ‘good body and nonthreatening complexity’ A dozen artisanal coffee aficionados from around the world hovered their noses above cups of steaming grounds and inhaled deeply. Then they tasted the coffee, swishing or chewing it, spit out the leftovers and […]
Taiwan has resumed its technical cooperation program with Panama, interrupted in 2012, allocating one million dollars for the prevention of the HLB disease, a pest in Central America which has decimated the citrus production and was detected in February in the Panama province of Bocas del Toro. Taiwan’s ambassador in Panama, José María Liu, told […]
This is a good article by Guillermo Rodrieguez Gonzalez on how Capitalism may be on the threshold of its definitive globalization and its impact on reducing poverty. We are seeing it in our province where the workers on farms are becoming more educated, healthier and may one day no longer provide the labor our agricultural […]
It’s a vibrant weekend for Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach as she toured the Republic of Panama. The beauty queen crossed off “seeing the Panama Canal” from her bucket list, tried Panamanian food, and she helped build a house—all done in style, of course. Check out the highlights of the #PIAnama weekend.
So, our only supplier had problems with a fire in their factory that make egg cartons and we find ourselves in need of importing them. I stopped buying eggs in the grocery store years ago and instead buy huevos de patio or back yard chicken eggs at the vegetable market as they are much better […]
In Costa Rica there will never be a Metro, nor an urban electric train, nor any type of efficient public transport system simply because it does not suit the bus companies. EDITORIAL Lack of strong political leadership and a government with real capabilities is preventing Costa Rica from making the indispensable -and also inevitable- changes […]
A proposal has been made in Panama to make public all sanctions to be imposed on entities that violate the law on prevention of money laundering. The proposal put forward by the National Committee Against Money Laundering, and Financing of Terrorism and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (CNBC), created in 2015 within the […]
Alejandro Chafuen offers this op-ed in the PanAm Post on the candidates and the upcoming election. I have but one comment, thank God the circus is almost over and I look forward to seeing the flood of people moving to Boquete next year. “Never” is a dangerous word, like “secure.” When Bill Clinton was running […]
Each year Amigos de Animales hosts a huge sale of donated items and the volunteers that help with the event come out in force and work hard to insure that the event generates the most sales possible. This year they brought in over $17,000, funds needed to insure that this organization meets budget this year. […]