Amigos de los Ninos
On Thursday, December 13th over 25 people met at the home of Randy & Ellen to assemble food hampers. There were people from Panama, USA, Canada, UK, Greece and probably several other countries. Our ...
Coronado Community News
Panama schools to teach Chinese
{mosgooglecenter} Panama is moving to make the teaching of Mandarin compulsory in all schools, in recognition of China's growing importance in the world economy. The Panamanian National Assembly has given conditional approval to the bill in the first of three debates. ...
Coronado and Area Social Association Updates - December 2007
The Social Association meets once per month in the back room at Rincon del Chef. The meeting is an opportunity to meet new residents, catch up with old friends, hear from local organizations ...
Wyndham Hotels and Resorts Opens First Hotel in Panama
{mosgooglecenter} The Wyndham Hotels and Resorts brand will fly its first flag in Panama with the conversion of the five-star, 301-room Veneto Hotel & Casino in Panama City to The Veneto, A Wyndham® Grand Hotel. Peter Strebel, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts ...
Canoeist's wife 'missing' after leaving Panama
{mosgooglecenter} By Tom Leonard and Andrew Beatty in Panama and Richard Edwards Last Updated: 2:54am GMT 07/12/2007 The wife of "back from the dead" canoeist John Darwin has flown out of Panama but police were left waiting at Heathrow airport not ...
Raffle Winners Announced!
Games Night, Dec 6th, 2007 It was a great evening with just over thirty people joining in the fun. The raffle Grand Prize of Anna Liebig’s quilt was won by Jody Hessler! Congratulations, Jody! Tickets had been sold ...
Casting for Bond 22 extras in Panama took place yesterday, locations confirmed
{mosgooglecenter} Panama has yet to be officially confirmed as a shooting location for the 22nd James Bond film (Daniel Craig came closest ...
Q&A: why Panama attracts wealthy foreigners
Panama's generous tax laws have long made it a haven for wealthy investers from overseas {mosgooglecenter} Has Panama got a long history as a tax haven? Yes. It was regarded as the western hemisphere’s primary tax haven for ...
'Missing' canoeist arrested for fraud
{mosgooglecenter} The wife of a British man missing, presumed dead, for five years has reportedly confessed that she and her husband were involved in a plot, but says her sons were not part of it. When Anne Darwin was tracked down at her Panama City flat she ...
Mahjong Club Updates
Location Change for Friday's Mahjong Meet This friday, Dec 7th Mahjong group will meet at Don Chacos grill for lunch at 12pm. Games begin at 1pm. Chachos has offered us thier air conditioned room! See you there! ...
Games Night and Christmas Raffle
Hi Folks; I hope you are ready for one more games night before 2007 escapes us. This games night will be special. We will be having the draw for a lovely handmade picnic quilt donated by Anna Liebig. ...
Annual Christmas Parade
Led by Mary on a donkey and Joseph in toe, brought up in the rear, by Santa and Missus Claus pulled in a cart by two large oxen, the annual Coronado Christmas parade made a slow rhythmic walk to the Coronado Hotel lobby. The parade is an opportunity for the ...
Panama's jails hold 7,000 untried prisoners
{mosgooglecenter} PANAMA CITY, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Panama's jails host nearly 7,000 prisoners who have not been duly tried and convicted, due to slow judicial process, the country's Interior and Justice Ministry said ...
Panama Private Clinic Scab Strike
{mosgooglecenter} Panama, Nov 29 (Prensa Latina) Five of the so-called private popular clinics in Panama began offering services to the population on Thursday under a government contract, to confront a 24-day medical strike in public hospitals. The 5,000 physicians ...
Coronado Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting
The month of Christmas is being heralded this week in Coronado, by the children of Panama. At 4:30pm, this coming Saturday, children bands from nearby schools will gather at the Coronado Fire Station to begin a musical parade to the Coronado Golf and ...
Investment propels a real estate boom for Panama
(The Christian Science Monitor) Stability and a steady growth rate are helping to transform this regional hub. Panama City - The hilltop view overlooking the former Howard US Air Force Base in Panama says it all. The vacant barracks will be the site of a $10 billion ...
Offshore Legal set to offer more Panama Offshore Services
Banking and Investment News (PRLEAP.COM) With the Republic of Panama gaining momentum as the preferred offshore banking destination globally, ...
The primeval meets the present at the Darién Gap
The Salt Lake Tribune: Edging along the Panamanian-Colombian border, the Darién Gap is one of the wildest frontiers in the Americas. It's home to Panama's most spectacular national park, the UNESCO World Heritage site of Parque Nacional Darién. The Darién is where the primeval ...
Cutito Larrinaga to Perform a Benefit Concert for a new Library in San Carlos
Finca La Maya, a Cultural Arts & Events Center near San Carlos, Panama, is hosting an evening of romantic music and dinner to benefit a new community library. The concert and dinner party will be on December 15, 2007 at 4 pm. The festivities and concert will feature celebrated ...
A Confusing Thanksgiving in Panama
Panama City, Panama (The Panama Report) I had been thinking long and hard about my invention of a toothbrush that you don't have to throw away, with bristles of such resistance that they simply don't wear old, when I realized it was November 22nd which, in the United States, is the ...
Surprising bequest leaves lawyer, heirs an estate of confusion in Panama
Wearing a straw hat, frayed khaki pants and a shirt that most would have consigned to the rag pile, Wilson Lucom strolled into Richard Lehman's law office more than 30 years ago and took the Boca Raton tax attorney on the legal ride of his life. It began when the ...
