IFF Panama: Festival Reveals 2018 Primera Mirada Lineup


News from Panama

It’s April and time for the International Film Festival in Panama.  This year’s works sound great. Martin Dale reports in this article from Variety. Five films compete in festival’s work-in-progress sidebar, its major industry draw. The 4th IFF Panama’s Primera Mirada pix-in-post sidebar has selected five features – from Cuba, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama […]

April 2, 2018

5 famous foods from Panama you need to try


News from Panama

This appeared on Nomadic Boys website and is a nice article. The Panamanian Cuisine has strong influences from Africa, Spain and its indigenous Native American population. There is a lot of similarity and overlap with some of our favourite famous foods of Colombia as well as several unique dishes we had never heard of before. These are our […]

March 26, 2018

Morocco Shares Environmental Vision in Panama


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Morocco’s Ambassador to Panama, Oumama Aouad, highlighted Morocco’s environmental achievements at a conference on “Public Policies to Preserve the Environment,” held this week at the Technological University of Panama (UTP). Morocco has been building a green economy that ensures the sustainability of its development, benefiting from the natural resources that are both clean and renewable. […]

March 26, 2018

Blessed are the poor in spirit


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Several years ago, a friend asked if I’d pray that she would learn how to become poor. I’ve prayed a lot of things for people—that cancer would be arrested, a surgery would be successful, someone would know the comfort of God while mired in grief, for troubled marriages and wayward children—but never that someone would […]

March 26, 2018