Cointreau Rendezvous y The Panama Club te invita a que disfrutes de una elegante velada este 10 de Agosto en la terraza del Restaurante Luna, a partir de las 7:00 p.m.

Los aromas y sabores de limón, naranja, cranberry y de nuestro famoso licor naranja Cointreau se mezclaran para que degustes de los Cointreaupolitan, la nueva versión del famoso trago Cosmopolitan que fue inventado en 1990 en San Francisco y se hizo originalmente con Cointreau!

¡Descubre porque las cuatro protagonistas de la afamada serie Sex & The City declararon que el Cosmopolitan era su cocktail favorito!

Un evento solo para mujeres con estilo social, urbano, moderno y elegante. Los hombres nos podrán acompañar después de las 10:00 p.m.

Redescubre el Cointreau orange liqueur, inventado desde hace 160 años en Angers, Francia y que hasta la fecha sigue manteniendo su receta original.

Para RSVP o cualquiera pregunta adicional, sírvase contactarnos a rsvp@thepanamaclub.com o al 202-1111

Panama is made up of people from around the world. This multi-cultural, multi-lingual, global crossroads of business and lifestyles means different things to a lot of very different people. From backpackers to multinational corporation executives, scientists to embassy and UN employees, dock workers to real estate developers, our community is a rich tapestry of the world’s wayseers. Panamanians themselves spring from generations of the world’s adventurers passing through or moving to this amazing little piece of the planet.

The Panama Club is made up of these very people. Panamanians and citizens of the world gather with us at our events. Our club is made up of the same diversity that makes Panama so special. From retirees to beauty queens, we all take a little time out of the traffic, celebrate and enjoy this amazing country.

Come join us Thursdays After Work at the Radisson Decapolis. Bring your friends, a camera and get ready to meet some new friends, clients or partners in a casual, relaxed atmosphere full of Panama’s best and brightest people. There is a free cover, the dress code is work attire and we’ve always got some great food and drink specials to offer you. Your new friends are waiting, see you there!

Our next Thursday After Work are on July 28 and August 25, 2011.

For information on what is happening in Panama and all the latest events, be sure to follow The Panama Club on facebook!

Everyone had a great time a Casa Nikki for the first event. The Panama Club gave away a night at the Royalton and Networking Bingo prizes like $50 to use on OfertaSimple.com. Sponsors for the Casa Nikki networking event included Air Panama, Panama Travel Group, The Panama Network, The Visitor, OfertaSimple.com, and Panama Pacifico.

The Panama Club is a one stop service facilitator in Panama. Its services include residential and corporate relocation to Panama, new business set up in Panama, real estate services through panamarealestate.com, legal counsel and insurance through Forlacol Insurance, travel services through Panama Travel Group, concierge services, and cultural, social, and business integration.

The Panama Club has a monthly newsletter that keeps you attuned to what is happening in Panama. The twice monthly networking events are an excellent means of meeting people in Panama and a good introduction to the services of The Panama Club.
The next networking event by The Panama Club will take place on May 5 at the Hacienda Real in Bella Vista. For more details contact The Panama Club today.

Please join us at 6:30pm on Thursday, April 7th as we enjoy exclusive access to Casa Nikki @ Multiplaza in Punta Pacifica for a night of fun.

Dress is cocktail. Bring lots of business cards an…d get ready to enjoy a great night with new friends!

You are invited to enjoy:

* 1 complimentary drink for everybody!
* Complimentary appetizers
* Cool music played at a low volume to facilitate successful networking until 8 pm
* DJ spinning great music and creating a more social atmosphere after 8 pm
* Fun games to make you meet new people!

We’re looking forward to seeing you!

Supported by our friends: Air Panama, Panama Travel Group, The Panama Network, The Visitor, OfertaSimple.com

Panama Travel Group‘s office is now located on Avenida A, between 7 and 8 street. As soon as you turn into Casco Viejo you will see our sign, right after the Golden Altar Church.

Panama Travel Group offers you information about different exotic and unique destinations, some of the most innovative and extremely recommended accommodations and the information on traveling to Panama. The Panama Travel Group also offers a wide variety of tours ranging from adventure tours to pure leisure. We offer excellent cultural excursions as well as vacation travel packages. The Panama Travel Group offers the highest level of customer service to our many valued clients and we pride ourselves on our reputation both locally and worldwide.

Contact Panama Travel Group

http://www.panamatravelgroup.com/

Our phone number remains the same (507) 836-6542 / 43. For those of you calling from the USA we have a Miami phone number in our office 1-(305)-503-9957. Or you can also write to info@panamatravelgroup.com

If you are in Panama, come visit our new offices, we will await for you with a cup of gourmet Boquete coffee and many options to make your Panama vacation ever more amazing!

4 Events in Casco on one Evening! All in walking distance.

ARTBLOCKPARTY

Casco Viejo Gallery Night. Once a month.

Type:     Music/Arts – Opening
Start Time:     Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:00pm
End Time:     Friday, February 26, 2010 at 2:00am
Location:     Casco Viejo

DIABLO ROSSO ART GALLERY
CIRCA ’10: Opening Night @ 7:00pm
JONATHAN HARKER, FABRIZIO ARRIETA, MARIA RAQUEL COCHEZ, MIKY FABREGA, CISCO MEREL, JOSE MANUEL CASTRELLON

JUNGLEWOOD GALLERY
Live Sculpture Demonstration: 7:00-8:00pm
Brass Quintet @ 8:00pm
Painting and Sculpture Exposition
BARBARA TUAN YU DOVE, ERNELIO & FERNANDO MEMBORA

SUPER GOURMET
The Deli Market in Casco Viejo
Food, Wine and Bar until 10:00pm

RELIC LIVE ART
Live painting shows @ 8:30pm – 2:00am
Featuring a different artist every week

Contact: pacfundacion@gmail.com

If you are a gallery or business owner & would like to be a part of next month’s ARTBLOCK please contact us!

March’s Artblock will be the week of March 22nd.

As part of the tour “World Magnetic Tour” with which the band is giving concerts around the world to present their new record production “Death Magnetic” and all the classic songs which characterize Metallica. The band will perform before thousands of Panamanians fans on March 8 at the Plaza Figali (outdoor) of the Amador Causeway in Panama City.

To the date, Metallica has released nine studio albums. Metallica‘s total sales exceed 100 million, and are considered the largest of metal. Furthermore, the group has won many musical awards, which include nine Grammys, two MTV awards, two awards from the Academy of American Music and an award from Billboard Magazine Award, and have a star on the Walk of Fame.

Monday, March 8, 2010 at 6:45 pm

Ticket for sale: Ticket Plus  (Metro Pharmacies, Extreme Planet, Subaru Calle 50 and Hometek.

PRICES:

(ALL AREAS ARE STANDING)

AREA GOLD – B/.175.00

AREA VIP – B /. 75.00

GENERAL – B/.40.00

Prices do not include service charges or 5% tax

In 1902 the Panamanians negotiated with the North Americans to build the Panama Canal. The people of Panama wanted to be free of domination by Colombia. Based on an 1846 treaty between the U.S. and Colombia, the U.S. armed forces were sent to maintain order along the Panama Railroad line. Because of the presence of the U.S. troops; the Colombians withdrew and the Republic of Panama celebrated its independence on November 3, 1903.

In December, 1903 the U.S. Congress ratified a treaty with the new Republic of Panama to build the Panama Canal which created a ten-mile-wide, forty eight mile (77 km) long Canal Zone controlled by the United States for a unlimited period of time. Yet there was still arguing going on in America behind the scenes.

President Roosevelt appointed an Isthmian Canal Commission in May 1904, to build the Canal, mostly following the route of the original railroad tracks. There was much media discussion of the tropics and the French attempts to built the canal.

On the swampy land between Gatun and Gamboa it was necessary to build 167 embankments from 58 to 74 feet high. The canal was created with 3 sets of locks, several artificial channels and 17 artificial lakes. The artificial Lake Gatun was created by damming the Chagres River with an unimaginable 16 million cubic yards of dirt. To start the canal required the relocation of the railway line which cost $9 million. That’s $1 million more than building the entire railroad had cost 65 years earlier. The changing of the railroad route was completed in 1912.

There was still contention in Washington, DC, from a variety of American Congressmen about the choice of Panama for the Canal construction, instead of Nicaragua. There were surely recommendations for President Roosevelt from most of the special interest groups. It is amazing to realize that amid all the excitement “the Panama Canal was built ahead of schedule and below budget.” “If any one person can be credited for this achievement it is George W. Goethals, the project’s chief engineer, 1907−15.”

The first two chief engineers who worked on the Panama Canal were both civilians. They resigned from the huge and daunting project after short tenures.” “President Theodore Roosevelt announced that the next chief would be an Army officer, who, if he walked off the job, would find himself facing a court martial.” “The man selected was Major George W. Goethals of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.” This was a man up to the job.

By the time the canal was completed, an estimated twenty seven thousand workers are said to have died in the combined French and American efforts. The building of the canal was plagued by problems, including disease and landslides, particularly in the area around the Continental Divide at Culebra Cut…but the really astonishing thing is…it was built. The completion of the Canal was celebrated by the successful transit of the SS Ancon as first ship across the Panama Canal.

In his memoirs, An Autobiography (1913), President Theodore Roosevelt admitted that his actions in detaching Panama from Colombia to build the Panama Canal were seen by many critics as improper when he said: “By far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I was President related to the Panama Canal. Here again there was much accusation about my having acted in an ‘unconstitutional’ manner … and at different stages of the affair believers in a do-nothing policy denounced me as having ‘usurped authority’.”

There are still active arguments on both sides of the controversy the about the US role separating Panama from Colombia. Roosevelt sought to rationalize it when he argued that “Colombia had forfeited every claim to consideration” by its actions in Panama. In 1886, Roosevelt claimed the Colombian government “had taken away from Panama the power of self-government”. In the US Congressional debates that ended with the backing of President Jimmy Carter’s desire to return the Canal to the Republic of Panama, the pivotal moment may have been when one Senator exhorted:“Why, it’s ours, we stole it fair and square.”

As there are on the later settlement which resulted in the Torrijos-Carter Treaties in 1977 that set in motion the process of handing the Panama Canal over to the Panamanians for free. Thirty years later it is still a controversial topic within the U.S. However, the treaty led to full Panamanian control effective at noon on December 31, 1999, when control of the canal was handed over to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP).

On January 28, 1855 a train ran from the Atlantic Ocean all the way across the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean for the first time. The Panama Railroad was added to the official list of the then seven wonders of the world for that era, and many well-heeled travelers planned excursions including a trip on the inter-ocean railroad. Those traveler’s tales bred curiosity in others and a trip on the Panama Railroad became a world renowned tourist destination.

Astonishingly, the building of the Panama Railroad led to the construction of the Panama Canal. Without the demonstrated construction techniques of the train crews, and international interest, there would have been no Canal. The Panama Railroad made people aware that there was a quicker and more economic route to travel between the oceans and that it had potential.