sduford on Dec 31 2007 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Panama
The government of Panama has decided to extend the registration period for the 20 year property tax exemption until the end of 2009. You need to get your construction permit before December 31st 2009, and the house needs to be completed and registered by December 31st 2011.
Don’t forget to file the paperwork if you want [...]
sduford on Dec 30 2007 | Filed under: Music
I just found out that while I was down in Panama, one of the last Jazz legends passed away.
Oscar Peterson was one of the greatest Jazz pianists ever and most certainly the greatest Canadian Jazz musician that ever lived. He was one of the last great legends from the heydays of Jazz in the [...]
sduford on Dec 28 2007 | Filed under: Building in Panama
Now that the dry season has finally arrived, they have restarted construction work on our Panama house. As you can see in the following picture, they are pouring the driveway to give themselves a good base to climb up our steep lot.
We basically lost two months right off the bat, but it’s good to finally [...]
sduford on Dec 27 2007 | Filed under: Panama, Travel
The dry season has finally arrived, just like flicking a switch! On December 25th it rained for most of the day but in the evening we could feel the wind beginning to turn northerly. We woke up on the 26th to a gorgeous blue sky and the same thing again today. The northerly winds seem [...]
sduford on Dec 24 2007 | Filed under: Panama, Travel
I’m back in Panama for a week and this will be my first Christmas in the tropics! With all the warm weather, palm trees, and tropical forest it doesn’t look or feel like Christmas at all. But that doesn’t bother me since I have gotten off the Christmas bandwagon a long time ago. I think [...]
sduford on Dec 13 2007 | Filed under: Panama, Renewable Energy, Technology
Panama’s boom means that the electricity supply is becoming really tight these days. There are a few small hydro-electric projects being built (amazingly, this tiny country has over 500 rivers), but now here news that a 400 MegaWatt wind farm will soon be built.
MADRID, Dec. 12, 2007 Fersa Energias Renovables SA will invest 700 mln [...]
sduford on Dec 11 2007 | Filed under: Panama, Travel
The New York Times just released their list of 53 places to visit in 2008 and Play Blanca, Panama is on it!
22. PLAYA BLANCA, PANAMA
Playa Blanca is about to hit the tabloids. Nikki Beach, the très chic beach club in South Beach and St.-Tropez, is opening a gated resort in the once-quiet fishing village on [...]
sduford on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: Politics, Scams, Science
As a follow-on to my previous post on our little Canadian Dictator and his position on Global Warming, here’s a very nice little explanation of what is really going on, courtesy of DeSmogBlog.
If you owned a distillery, you would probably not be in favour of prohibition.
So it is little wonder why Harper is apposed to [...]
sduford on Dec 06 2007 | Filed under: Politics, Rant, Science
I am appalled by our Prime Minister’s behaviour on the environment. Clearly, he is driven purely by the money boom in his own Province of Alberta where the race to exploit the oil sands faster is causing billions of dollars to flow into the province. But oil sands processing is causing an environmental disaster of [...]
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