(Business World) Mehr Eliezer, representative of Isla Flamenco, was chosen as the new Miss Panama 2019.  Eliezer, 22, student of International Relations, beat all the 24 contestants in the National Beauty Contest 2019.  Mehr Eliezer, born January 16th 1997 in New Delhi, India. She moved with her parents to Davao City, Philippines in 2001 when she was 4 years … [Read more...]

(Carribean Journal) What was already one of the leading destinations for expats in the Caribbean just got another boost. Bocas del Toro, the beach-filled archipelago off the Caribbean coast of Panama, is now home to a new real estate project: the Blue Pearl Island Suites. The new project is set at the Red Frog Beach Resort in Bocas del Toro, with a range of one, two … [Read more...]

(New York Times) This is a place I could disappear into. And over the course of the five days I spent in the remote village of Santa Catalina on Panama’s Pacific Coast, I met many people who seemed to be doing just that. There was the Italian surfer who came many years ago and now returns again and again, for longer periods each time. Or the British dive master who thought … [Read more...]

(Smithsonian) Kelly Bennett sets out from Gamboa at 4:30 a.m., crossing the Panama Canal on the tall, cable-stayed Centennial bridge. The Smithsonian post-doctoral fellow is on a six-hour trek to the Azuero Peninsula to track two mosquito species capable of lethal viral diseases: malaria, yellow fever, dengue, Zika and Chikungunya. At 7 a.m. at a tiny fonda in Penonome, she … [Read more...]

(Panama Relocation Tours) Have you ever wondered what happens if you have an emergency when you live in Panama? What if you need to call the police, fire department or need an ambulance but don’t speak Spanish? There is a 911 service in Panama, but the emergency operator will probably only speak Spanish. And there is a special “tourist police” emergency number, 511 9260, but … [Read more...]