Panama Blog
Canal Expansion 81% complete – $110 million port expansion by Hong Kong conglomerate
It seems like every week, there is another $100 million investment announcement in this little country. To put things in perspective, Panama's population at just over 3 million is much smaller than that of the Philadelphia metropolitan area....
New York Times features new Gehry Museum
This new museum is certainly getting a lot of press. Here's another article about it just out in the New York Times. Articles like this one have a surprisingly strong impact on tourism. Another $100 million plus investment in the country's d...
Wonderful Boquete Fairs, Parades and Events
Starting in the first week of November, we enter holiday season in Boquete and that means lots of parades and fairs from now through April of next year. November is about independence and patriotism. The streets of Boquete swell wit...
Panama and Colombia come to agreement
Vice President of Panama, Isabel De Saint Malo and Colombia's Foreign Minister, María Ángela Holguín photo and article in Spanish, Portfolio.co In the last newsletter, we mentioned that Colombia was jostling for more control over their ...
Coffee Bean Prices Hit 2 year high and headed higher
Boquete and Volcan are coffee country. These areas in Chiriqui produce most of the coffee grown in Panama. When driving through the hills and hiking the trails of Boquete you see lots of the rich green leaves and, in the right time of year,...
Panama relocating Monkeys, Sloths, Crocs, Snakes
Amazing. It comes as welcome news that so many animals displaced by the expansion are being relocated. A huge project like the canal expansion unfortunately equals habitat destruction. If this report is representative of what’s really happe...
Lost in Paradise – Myles’ and Martina’s Parrot
On Monday, we received an email notice from News Boquete that Myles and Martina had lost their parrot. They had raised it from near birth and now it was gone. Here’s the notice: Lost Parrot Area of Los Naranjos. If you see our parrot, p...
Standard and Poor’s and Fitch affirm Panama credit rating
It was big news in 2010 when the three big rating agencies announced Panama as worthy of investment grade credit ratings. Since then, the ratings have improved a couple of notches. As of Oct. 8, 2014, there are new announcements of stable ...
Another Free Trade Agreement – This Time It’s Mexico!
The Panamanian government has steadily amassed successes on trade agreements over recent years. Here comes another one. Expect more to come with neighboring Colombia possibly up next and the Pacific Alliance membership likely to follow. Pan...
Video of Panama Canal Expansion in Progress & Panama Canal Expansion Impact on US Engineers
This great 1 and a half minute video shows the incredible scope of the work being done to expand the canal and a gives a quick look at the Canal’s new leader Sr. Jorge Luis Quijano. It comes as part of the American Society of Civil Engineer...