Seizing on Panama’s love of American brands, chicken, and spice, the Wing Zone is taking its business international with its first overseas location in Panama City. The Atlanta-headquartered restaurant chain was founded in a University of Florida fraternity house in 1991 as a late-night munchie concept and today specializes in deep-fried food products, especially...
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Panama has agreed to protect Scotch against any imitations by registering and protecting the aqua vitae as a “geographical indication of origin” on Tuesday. This means that for a whisky to be labelled Scotch it has to be produced in a distillery in Scotland from water and malted barley to which only whole grains...
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A calf with two heads has been birthed to a small Los Castillos de Rio de Jesus farm in Panama’s western Veraguas province. The animal, named Spot, weighs 70 pounds and is still alive, but having a difficult time breathing. Feliciano Castillo, a Los Castillos resident, said that the community is hoping the calf...
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Although Panama recently lost the rights to the 2013 Bolivarian Games, it will host the International Rice Conference in June 2011. ”President Martinelli’s in-depth understanding of rice farming and the world market brings a great level of excitement to our conference, and we greatly appreciate his accepting our invitation to participate in the opening...
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Four new tomato varieties, recommended and certified by the National Seed Committee, have been approved by the Agricultural Research Institute of Panama. This means that the tomatoes – known as T7-T8-T9 and large integer - are being planted during the November to December agricultural cycles in the provinces of Herrera and Los Santos on the...
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