(Remezcla) Sech and his team, otherwise known as El Bloke, are throwing a music festival in Panama for Carnaval, which runs through the last week of February and into March in a few provinces. It’s summer on the isthmus right now (cries in New Yorker), so the five-day event is fittingly titled El Bloke Summer Fest. The guys have slowly rolled out festival details, … [Read more...]
Panama: Golf Included
(Golfweek) “This place is nonstop,” Oliver Riding said, pointing to the seat of our golf cart where his phone beeped and chirped constantly during our round at Santa Maria Hotel and Golf Resort. “Listen to this thing. I know what each (beep) means, so I know the important ones.” There were a lot of important ones that morning, including an email from a group interested … [Read more...]
10 Interesting Facts About The Panama Canal
10 The Panama Canal Is Utterly Different From The Suez Canal After the successful construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt, Count Ferdinand De Lesseps, a French contractor, was the engineer employed to build the Panama Canal in 1880. The plan was to construct a sea-level canal with no locks. This would allow ships to travel at different levels of water. In … [Read more...]
At the Edge of the Caribbean, a Hidden Jewel in Panama
(Caribbean Journal) There’s a reason they put a canal here. Panama is the thinnest sliver of the Americas, the most logical place to put the world’s most important shipping route, the isthmic keyhole from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific. And as the locks of the Panama Canal open and close throughout the day the waters that flow between the Caribbean Sea, Lake Gatun … [Read more...]
Panama’s Ninety Plus Coffee Sells World’s Most Expensive Coffee for $4,535 Per Pound
(Daily Coffee News) Panama-based coffee company Ninety Plus says it has broken its own world record for most expensive coffee ever sold, sending green coffee to Espresso Lab in Dubai (UAE) for $10,000 per kilogram ($4,535 per pound). It practically doubles the $2,273 price record for green coffee, which came from a 2017 Ninety Plus auction. Ninety Plus has not shared the … [Read more...]