(CBS) Members of an Indian tribe in Panama are blocking roads in two provinces on the border with Costa Rica in a dispute over mineral exploitation on their lands. Protesters from the Ngobe-Bugle tribe have been manning roadblocks of stones and branches set up Monday in Bocas del Toro and Chiriqui in western Panama. They have also closed sections of road in Veraguas … [Read more...]
Panama Behind the Scenes
(KTSP.com)Everyone seems to know the Van Halen song, "Panama, Pana-ma-ha." Everyone but me. (it's possible nobody sings it well enough to recognize it.) Anyway, I figured if I don't know the song Panama, maybe not everyone knows where Panama the country is, and that's why this video starts with a geography lesson. Wow, geography sounds boring! Don't worry, we'll also take … [Read more...]
Panama restaurants offer a wide variety of food fare
(International Living) Amid the towers of steel and chrome waft the tantalizing smells of seafood and spices. Argentine, Cuban, Swiss, German, Thai, and Indian are only a few of the offerings you’ll enjoy today in Panama City, Panama. Back home you may find yourself banished to the burbs for affordable food. But here you can eat at the finest gourmet restaurants in the … [Read more...]
Panama launches 2012 tourism campaign
(Prensa.com) Panama announced the launch of promotional tourism campaigns in Brazil and the U.S. (EU), to boost visitor arrivals from 2012, according to the Panamanian Minister of Tourism, Solomon Shamah. In a panel organized by the January 25 Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama, Shamah said in 2011 about 880 thousand Brazilians applied for visas to … [Read more...]
Veraguas festival is sweet and cheap!
(Midiario) For the ninth consecutive year Veraguas tasted a lot of desserts and sweet home-style cold as in the days of the grandmother, was very successful as the Festival of Culture in San Francisco on the Mount, in the province of Veraguas. Santis Munoz, a member of the organizing committee of the Ninth Fair Sweets and Desserts, said that this year more of these delicacies … [Read more...]