Amigos Fundraiser
Despite all the banter for and against Amigos existence, several hundred people found their way the the… [more]
Amigos, a fund raiser
It is probably unique in the annals of history, but after the armed incursion into Amigos restaurant… [more]
TCM: The 6 Million Dollar Man
Perhaps if I had not called this meeting "Hybrid Operating Rooms" but how you can be kept alive by new… [more]
Orgasmic Furniture
I am not referring to anything sexual, sorry if that is disappointing. I spent two months in anticipation,… [more]
A day in Volcan and some interesting but taxing information
When I first arrived in Boquete I did a lot of exploration in Chiriqui, later when I was writing for… [more]
The new Italian Job, an ACODECO thriller
On June 21 2011 I posted about my new stove and the problems with the delivery; you can read the post… [more]
Tuesday Meetings a Followup on community input
I want to put a positive face on the Boquete Community input on the Tuesday Morning Meetings. I posted… [more]
The Carpetbaggers
According the Wikipedia the word carpetbagger has it's roots in the reconstruction period in the Southern… [more]
Four weekends of parties
I have been enjoying the local culture for the past four weekends of immersion. It all started when Mayra's… [more]
Healthy Living in Panama, or Kansas
I read a lot of online discussions about Panama. There is a Yahoo Group called Gringos in David, it… [more]
The Lastest Boquete Guide
Amigos Fundraiser
Despite all the banter for and against Amigos existence, several hundred people found their way the the fundraiser for Amigos Boquete Panama. As was said at the event, despite any flaws Amigos has a function in Boquete. Amigos has historically been one of very few places that is open late and caters to the entire [...]
TCM: A Newcomers Meeting
I was surprised by the attendance at todays meeting, a large group. The meeting was held because of requests for a newcomers meeting when I asked for feedback and suggestions. Many of the people were new to Boquete many others have been here for years. A lot of information was exchanged and we will do [...]
A Wild Bill Infogram
Don Winner published this information about Wild Bill on the Panama Guide. I did some followup on it with Prison officials in David. By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - William Dathan Holbert, the notorious “Wild Bill” serial killer who has confessed to having murdered five people in Panama and one in Costa Rica, has access to communications [...]
Amigos, a fund raiser
It is probably unique in the annals of history, but after the armed incursion into Amigos restaurant last Tuesday night I and others have decided we need to help Amigos with it’s legal fight to survive. We are asking for your participation. For those who are not familiar with the background, Amigos Restaurant was a [...]
TCM: The 6 Million Dollar Man
Perhaps if I had not called this meeting “Hybrid Operating Rooms” but how you can be kept alive by new technologies in medicine more than twenty people would have come to the meeting. Our speaker Bruce Landau from the University of Pennsylvania was excellent. We are often lucky that very talented visitors to Boquete offer us their [...]
Flip Flopping
Nope, not about gay marriage nor other political issues, just the my latest drive back from David to Boquete. For those who are not here I am post three videos of the trip from David to Alto Boquete. You can see the progress using the new road flip flopping from one to four lanes and [...]
Orgasmic Furniture
I am not referring to anything sexual, sorry if that is disappointing. I spent two months in anticipation, I spent one day being a voyeur and now I have my satisfaction. One of the great gifts of being in Boquete Panama is that local crafts are still affordable and when you can find a craftsman [...]
A day in Volcan and some interesting but taxing information
When I first arrived in Boquete I did a lot of exploration in Chiriqui, later when I was writing for Live and Invest Overseas, I did a lot of travelling throughout Panama. Recently I have logged miles only between Bugaba, David and Boquete. Yesterday I went to Volcan, just on the other side of Vulcan [...]
The new Italian Job, an ACODECO thriller
On June 21 2011 I posted about my new stove and the problems with the delivery; you can read the post here. It is now May 2012 and much has occurred that might be of interest to consumers in Panama. The delivery truck from Casa Gala accidentally damaged our electrical service. We literally required the truck and [...]
Tuesday Meetings a Followup on community input
I want to put a positive face on the Boquete Community input on the Tuesday Morning Meetings. I posted on Boquete Guide, BoqueteNing and used Noticas to reach in excess of four thousand people who either live in Boquete or are interested enough to read those resources. As of now sixty six people have responded [...]
The Carpetbaggers
According the Wikipedia the word carpetbagger has it’s roots in the reconstruction period in the Southern United States, the description is alive and well in Panama with some twists. “In United States history, carpetbagger was a pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877. The [...]
TCM: The future
I have been running the Tuesday Community Meetings at the BCP for about six months. When I took on the mission I decided to change the format a bit. I have tried to introduce more quality speakers. At that time I decided a void in the schedule, no speaker would be better than some of [...]
Four weekends of parties
I have been enjoying the local culture for the past four weekends of immersion. It all started when Mayra’s younger daughter asked if she and few friends could camp out on my deck for a weekend of the Orchid Fair in Boquete. We had a well behaved group of twenty somethings from David here eating [...]
Healthy Living in Panama, or Kansas
I read a lot of online discussions about Panama. There is a Yahoo Group called Gringos in David, it encompasses discussion relevant to Boquete. Today I opened an email called “Looking for Doctor Gruber” a person looking for Frank Gruber and a cure for cancer. I read the discussion with interest, I know Frank Gruber, [...]
Playing Monopoly in Panama
I wrote about working on renewing my five year agricultural exoneration for my Boquete farms. I have been working on this for weeks, yesterday I hit the last step and was told to return to GO, not to collect $200, wait three months and start all over. My experiences with the Ministry of Finance (MEF) [...]
Expats can make a difference ask Manolito
It is anecdotal but a good example of how the life of a local child can be affected by the expat community here in Boquete and other places. I received this information about a young boy, Manolito, a Boquete local, now in Europe. First there was the Baptist Church performance..with Plenio and Daisy Ruiz. Then [...]
Being a farmer in Panama
I am not a farmer, however to gain a tax exoneration, I am a farmer. I am now growing citrus, coffee and some vegetables on my finca. It is probable I will gain more from the tax exoneration then I will from the sales revenue, so it is worth the effort. Last week I went [...]
TCM: Internet 101
I was planning to post the powerpoint of todays presentation, but sorry, it is too big a file and has some movies to which I do not have legal rights to publish. The summary is that the speaker spoke, entertained and answered questions. We pinged, trace routed and watched some short movies, all using technology [...]
NPR on Panama’s economic growth
“From my perspective, the major challenge Panama has is the economic and social polarization,” says Roberto Eisenmann, founder of the Panama City daily newspaper La Prensa. “We still have two countries — a First World country that’s going gangbusters, and a half an hour away, a Fourth World country with too many poor people,” Eisenmann says. [...]
Boquete Panama 101 Years Old
Today the Land of Perpetual Parades, Boquete Panama, celebrated it’s 101st birthday. I forgot about it. Thanks to an email from Craig at the Bistro, I scurried down the mountain with my camera. I arrived just in time to see the students disbursing. I realized I have been here for 5% of the 101 years, [...]
The middle class, there and here
It has been six years since I left Arizona, two years plus since my last trip back from Boquete Panama to Tucson. What stuck me on my trip to Tucson in January 2010 was how it was split. The Catalina Foothills where I lived before, was bustling with retail activity and looked no different than [...]
A trip down memory lane
I could title this post, searching for god, or some other phrase about a mystical path toward enlightenment. For me yesterdays seder in the Bistro Boquete was just a rush of memories. It was interesting to see a part of Boquete’s Jewish community, guests just curious about the function, and visitors from other countries gather [...]
It’s a rare convergence day
According to the Gregorian Calendar today is Good Friday, a very Catholic holiday celebrated intensely in Panama. In Panama Good Friday means no alcohol sales; a blow to bars, merchants and restaurants. It means fish sales have been up for a week and so have fish prices, with the normal complaints about the increases cost [...]
Agricultural Tax Exoneration
This post might be a curiosity to most but of interest to a few. One of the partial truths told by Real Estate promotors is that Panama has no property taxes. It is a partial truth because if your land does not host a condominium the first $30,000 valuation is tax free, the rest is [...]
The New CPR – Important
I want to thank a reader for this information, a rare email with useful information worth passing on. Learn Sarver Heart Center’s Continuous Chest Compression CPR More Information: Katie Maass, (520) 626-4083, kmaass@shc.arizona.edu Sarver Heart Center’s newest video makes it easy to learn Continuous Chest Compression CPR. Every three days, more Americans die from sudden [...]
Logical consequences
While on the topic of corruption and in defense of my previous post I want discuss what in preschool is called, logical consequences. If you take an action understand the impact and ripple effect of the actions. Panama’s police, despite a $100 a month raise three years ago are grossly underpaid as are most civil [...]
A perception of corruption
Recently I have been stuck in the mud, not on a road, but about a road and my unwillingness to pay for road repairs on a public road; actually two roads. Both roads are on Jaramillo, one is bad, the other is worse. Both are being repaired by MOP the Ministry of Public Works, in [...]
TCM: Fear is a great motivator, Alto al Crimen
The Tuesday Community Meeting was a standing room event today. Alto al Crimen gave their annual report to the community. Their meeting was moved up due two four home invasions in Chiriqui within a short period. We have very little violent crime so it is headline material. Alto al Crimen was founded as a response [...]
US Taxpayers, FATCA and Social Security
A question was posted on BoqueteNing.com about whether FATCA will require banks to withhold 30% of Social Security Deposits made to Banks in Panama that as not signatories to FATCA. Steven Mopsick, the tax attorney who spoke in Boquete earlier this year did some investigation on this and here is the information from him. Hello [...]
The cost of eating
I should have been at the Tuesday Community Meeting but I needed to go to David. I decided to take advantage of the time with a trip to visit a friend at the Regional Hospital and check some food prices. This survey is not too significant other than curiosity as to how some food prices [...]
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