The North Shore charger talks about the wave that made the cover of SURFER Vol. 59 #3 The photo above of Nathan Florence backdooring a green-lit cavern landed on Pg.1 of SURFER magazine’s newest issue. Staff photographer Ryan “Chachi” Craig captured it while on a hopeful strike mission to Panama with Florence, Billy Kemper and […]
Dealt documentary (Amazon, other options) directed by Luke Korem. This absolutely blew my mind, and I don’t want to spoil it with description. Trust me and watch the short trailer above. Truly amazing. I can’t remember the last time I finished a documentary, only to want to immediately watch it again. I also can’t remember a […]
Three liquefied natural gas tankers sailed through the Panama Canal on the same day this week, marking a first for the newly expanded waterway and highlighting the booming global gas trade. All three ships — Gaslog Hong Kong, Gaslog Gibraltar and Clean Ocean — entered the canal on a staggered basis from the Pacific side […]
My friends Rafael Museri and Daniel Rudasevski have hit the big time with hard work and expertly reading this market for travelers. Imagine traveling the world, surfing the waves of unspoilt beaches, meeting new people – and still being able to work remotely with unwavering Wi-Fi, in a community of like-minded wanderers and digital nomads. All […]
Latinvex reports on the economies of Latin America and guess who is the overall winner – PANAMA!!! Despite business-friendly governments in Latin America’s top three economies of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, they will be among the top laggards in Latin America GDP growth this year, according to a Latinvex analysis of new estimates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Only economic […]
This in from Ozy.com on their experience eating street food in Panama. While I also like the traditional Pescado Entero, I know of many more place that I would go to for great fish, namely on most of the beaches of Panama. Peach Fuzz International has nothing to do with peaches and everything to do […]
This was a huge deal for Ricardo Perez. ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Yoshihisa Suzuki, President & COO; hereinafter “ITOCHU”) announced today that it has taken effective control of Ricardo Pérez S.A. (hereinafter “RPSA”), which is an exclusive distributor for the Toyota and Lexus in Panama and currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo […]
Reuters Staff reports on this update. Emirates has revived prospects of non-stop flights to Panama, the airline said on Wednesday, encouraged by development potential in Latin America. The Middle East airline shelved plans for flights to Panama City from its Dubai hub in early 2016 after it was unable to secure enough code-share agreements to […]
Why you should care. Because Ilya Espino de Marotta led one of the largest engineering projects of this century. You go girl! When Ilya Espino de Marotta lifted off in a helicopter to survey her $5.2 billion project, her legs turned to jelly. That’s because this marine engineer, whose day job often has her evaluating very, very […]
Trade and manufacturing are the sectors that contributed the most to the year-on-year variation of 3.1% registered during the second month of the year in the economic activity index. From a report compiled by the General Comptroller of the Republic: The Monthly Index of Economic Activity (IMAE) in the Republic, for the period January-February 2018, […]