Panama: Progress on Metro Line 3 Project


News from Panama

The evaluation committee has completed a review of the nine proposals submitted by the prequalified companies for the design and construction project for Metro Line 3. From a statement issued by Metro de Panama: The Evaluation Commission, which is responsible for reviewing the technical proposal for the international prequalification of the “Design Engineering Project, Construction of Civil Works, […]

September 4, 2017

Here’s to you, Texas by Lori Borgman


News from Panama

I can remember living in Miami after Andrew hit us hard and all seemed lost.  Slowly we came back and people were stopping at intersections where lights were down and motioning for their neighbor to go first.  People gave away ice if they had it and  we held huge neighborhood cook outs as the frozen […]

September 4, 2017

Judge: Panama Ex-President Should Be Extradited From US


News from Panama

  Curt Anderson, an AP Legal Affairs Writer posted the story of Judge Edwin Torres’s decision to recommend extradition of former Panama president Ricardo Martinelli.   A former president of Panama should be extradited from the U.S. to face political espionage and embezzlement charges in his home country, a Miami federal judge ruled Thursday. The […]

August 31, 2017

What I am reading


News from Panama

Xose Lorenzo is in the middle of explaining how he got the seven stitches on his scalp and the eight on his leg when a call rings out from the other side of the rocks. A pack of men and women in wet suits aim a chorus of shouts and whistles and waving arms at […]

August 28, 2017

Panama to require visa for Venezuelans amid crisis


News from Panama

Panama’s president says his country will begin requiring an entry visa for Venezuelans beginning in October as their homeland slips deeper into crisis. President Juan Carlos Varela said Tuesday that recent events in Venezuela forced him to act to preserve Panama’s security, economy and job sources. Varela also said Panama will regularize the status of […]

August 28, 2017