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Every morning I scan CNN on-line to see what's going on around the world and came across this article about what happened in a small community in Alabama, USA. The reason I'm posting this is to really put crime issues in Boquete into perspective. We had someone come into our office who, after attending the Tuesday meeting, was absolutely terrified about moving to Boquete. According to her, following some horrifying accounts of people being 'attacked', break-in's into homes, etc, it was followed… Continue

Normally, I just laugh off comments I hear around town about my brokerage, CENTURY 21 Boquete Gold - especially the one a friend told me he had heard from a local Panamanian about CENTURY 21 North America going out of business. As I was eating when my friend told me this and it was so laughable, I almost spewed food out of my nose laughing so hard. I have kept silent when members in the community who are friends tell me they've heard people saying my brokerage is not licensed, which it is (PJ03… Continue

Yesterday was a day that started horribly with the news that a dear member of the Bocas community, Kim Crofts, was murdered the evening before. Kim and his wife Mary are two of the dearest people in the world and Kim's death has rippled sorrow throughout the town, even over the hill to Chiriqui. Amazingly enough, my day ended on the very opposite end of the spectrum thanks to a lot of very special members of the Boquete community - people I am honored to call friends. Earlier in the week, my be… Continue

"Retiring officer gets reprimand on his last day on job for wearing wrong color shirt" http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/11/police.uniform.ap/index.html While there are many reasons why so many of us have left the States, including invasion of privacy and the government essentially shreading the Constitution, this one article on CNN pushed my buttons, so to speak. A police officer that honorably served for 35 years was reprimanded all because on his day of retirement he wore the pre-Katrina unifo… Continue