(Livinglanguage.com) Have you heard about music from Panama? Or can you name a famous musician from the Central American country? Panama is an extraordinary source of amazing music and most of it remains certainly unknown. The thin, tropical bridge that connects North America with South America has more than three million people from the most diverse origins and cultures. … [Read more...]
Traditional Culture in Guna Yala, Panama
(Indian Country Today Media Network) As the boat carried our group from a coastal airstrip in eastern Panama to the Yandup Island Lodge, in the autonomous territory of the Guna Indians, I admired the timeless beauty of my surroundings. A woman in colorful traditional dress glided slowly across the glistening sea in a dugout canoe powered by a lateen sail. The shore of nearby … [Read more...]
Panama Canal Implements Green Building Policy
(Maritime Executive) The Panama Canal will implement more sound āGreen Buildingā practices with regards to future constructions in order to improve compatibility with the environment. Green Construction, also known as Sustainable Building, refers to designing building structures using processes and materials that are environmentally responsible and efficient during the life … [Read more...]
Panamaās developers undeterred by hotel slump
(Hotelnewsnow.com) Considered a business hub for Central and South America, Panama has attracted a swell of investor interestāas well as new hotel projectsāin recent years, but some analysts are wondering whether the increase in rooms will leave the country in a state of oversupply. Those concerns donāt seem to be stopping developers from building. āIn the late 1990s, … [Read more...]
Long term cruising sailors like Panama’s new ‘Immediate Permanent Resident’ visa
(Sailworld.com) If you would love to spend the rest of your life sailing in idyllic waters and are a citizen of Australia, the US, UK or Canada and a limited list of other countries, Panama could be your destination. Many cruising sailors have reached the San Blas, decided they are already in heaven, and stayed as long as they could. Now that decision has just … [Read more...]