I just knew that even though I stayed out of the Panaporn scandal, my loyal fan Don Winner would find a way to drag me in.

Ornstein gets invited to be the first to cross the Panama isthmus using a new highway paid for by Murcia!

Bezoek van Christiaan Verweij, per fiets op doorreis in Panama. Hij vertrok naar Carti en dan per boot naar Colombia. Het moeilijkste stuk van de reis.

I love certificates. Any certificate. My dearest one is the beautiful paper that certifies that yours truly has taken good care of his rabbit – it was issued in 1971 on World Animal Day and still decorates my wall. The latest addition to my collection comes from something called the Fundacion Desarollo del Caribe (FDC), a prestigious institution founded by a bunch of land speculators, for successfully attending their first congress.

Panama is a magnet for crooks and con men, and one of those is a certain Martin Lamb, a Canadian former scammer (fake lottery tickets and exotic stock schemes or whatever) who became a real estate hustler down here with a shady outfit called Templar Panama. Not only is he a trouble maker who regularly needs to be rescued from the police after bar fights concerning transvestite prostitutes; he develops serious anger management problems when you actually write the truth about him.

Panama’s National Assembly is quietly preparing to pass new legislation that would enable the country’s former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega to become a free man if he returns to Panama when he is released from a U.S. federal prison in September.

When the United States completed construction of the Panama Canal in 1914, it had taken American and French companies 34 years and a fortune in treasure and blood – more than 27,000 workers had died primarily from malaria and yellow fever. The monumental canal project has been an engineering feat likened to the eighth wonder of the world. On Oct. 22, the Panamanian people will vote in a special plebiscite regarding an equally staggering project: widening the Panama Canal to allow for large container ships.

The Swiss banking regulators have placed Prime Forestry, a global teak plantation investment scheme operating from Zürich with plantations in Panama, under judicial supervision and started an investigation into its activities.