sduford on Apr 27 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama
I got a few more pictures and a bit of excitement this week. I have someone watching over my project and last week he noticed that the kitchen window opening was completely wrong. It was both too small and in the wrong place!
But I’m more and more impressed with my builder, Eleuterio Gutiérrez. Jim noticed [...]
sduford on Apr 16 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Panama
I talked about the Palmex synthetic thatch roofing before in these pages, and I’ve now decided to put some of it on parts of my house, specifically on the bohio and guest house. A good friend of mine found this product and decided to start a distribution business for it in Panama. This is a [...]
sduford on Apr 16 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Panama
Good news! The 20 year property tax exemption in Panama just got extended so I will be able to take advantage of it!
By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Today Law 21 of 15 April 2008 was published in the “Official Gazette”, and specifies a change to Article 81 of Law 6 of 2005, saying “Those [...]
sduford on Apr 09 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Panama
I just received some more pictures of our construction project in Altos del Maria, Panama.
This one was taken from where the master bedroom will be. You can see the livingroom/kitchen module on the left, and the bohio to the right of it. You can also see the backwall of the guesthouse on the far right. [...]
sduford on Apr 06 2008 | Filed under: Panama, Travel
This NuWire Investor article discusses the top 5 medical tourism destinations in the world, and they name Panama as number 1.
1. Panama
Panama offers significantly lower costs for medical procedures just south of the U.S. border. Costs, on average, are 40 to 70 percent lower than costs of similar surgeries in the U.S., according to a [...]
sduford on Apr 06 2008 | Filed under: Panama
This Boston Globe article discusses some the impacts that the influx of foreign money is having on the poor people of Panama.
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