The sub director of the Historical Heritage of the National Institute of Culture, Yamileth Stanziola explained to the engineers of the Castilla del Oro Foundation, among them Richard Fifer, that the draft to recover the church of San Francisco de la Montana in the province of Veraguas, must present the side views of the current situation of the structure.
Stanziola said that this document usually includes three or four pages of side views and another four pages that would include the proposed lateral views and the materials that would be used, which can advance with a descriptive historical summary and a descriptive summary of the initiative that would be developed with its benefits and so on.
Stanziola said that this would be very valuable because it would be submitted to an approval from the Historical Heritage, meanwhile the structural engineer of the Castilla del Oro Foundation, which is led by the businessman Richard Fifer-Carles, is developing the structural part and the rest of the team members are working on their corresponding part.
On that matter it was recommended that the illumination of the structure must be indirect, preferably from the bottom to the top and if they want to illuminate the niches, it must be mimicked along with the external structure.
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In every industrial project, the company has to train their personnel to learn the process in order for them to perform their work under the adequate quality standards so they can fulfill their daily tasks; and in this sense, Panama Desarrollo de Infraestructura (PDI) has provided training to Petaquilla Gold’s employees.
This was revealed by the general manager of PDI, Jose Luis Dieguez, Petaquilla Gold’s subsidiary, who emphasized that even during the construction phase of the mine site, there was a lot of unqualified personnel who received training, and today they are working in earthmoving and civil construction.
Under the vision of Richard Fifer Carles, Petaquilla Gold, S.A., through PDI and joined by the INADEH, have trained and formed the company’s staff in different areas with the purpose of improving their production and the quality of the service they offer to the rest of the organization.
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When refering to the care that the Mines Minera Panamá and Petaquilla Gold. S.A., – led by Panamanian impresario Richard Fifer – Carles- have, the Punto de Vista Report of the Panamanian Industrial Union, published in the Panamá América newspaper, emphasizes that the mines have personnel that actively protects the forests.
Also, points out, that the mines reforest the area where they excavate and also have to reforest outside the area of the grant.
Finally, the important opinion of the Panamanian Industrial Union, led by impresario, Juan Francisco Kiener, underlines in his statement that “Here we have an example of how to protect the forests and improve the economy and encourages the exploitation of the mining potential the country has in all its national territory
Juan F. Kiener will continue leading the Panamanian Industrial Union (SIP), for the period 2011- 2012, alter receiving the backing of the apt voting membership. The Board is composed by: Ricardo Sotelo, Juan Vincensini, Estela Herrera, Marcos A. González, Máximo Gallardo y Juan A. Fábrega. Also Aldo Mangravita, Jaime Ruiz, Gaspar García de Paredes Chiari, Aida Michelle Maduro, Francisco Mola Davis, Norlando Arosemena y Manuel Aizpurúa.
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Plantain for the fried green ones
The social responsibility program of the Petaquilla company that businessman Richard Fifer Carles leads, also includes the family orchards phase which allows many families to have a particular way of subsistence close to their homes. It’s the own residents that take care of the sowing and harvesting of the products that they produce themselves.
It’s worth pointing out that within this program, support concerning technical counsiling is also offered so that the families can achieve better results with their sowing seasons.
Another of the advantages of this program is that entire families can complement their diet by means of the variety that include vegetables and fruits. The Petaquilla Foundation has the intention of promoting team work, community-company, assisting all the communities that surround the mining project.
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The mayor of the District of Donoso, Feliciano Villarreta, thanked for the contributions made by the Petaquilla Gold, S.A. company, directed by Richard Fifer-Carles, to the population of this sector of the province of Colón in compliance with the Mineral Resources Code.
In a humble ceremony that was attended by the Foreign Affairs Minister, Roberto Henríquez, the mayor said he receives this grant, amounting to $190,000 “with the best appreciation we can give because we are here and we know the problems our people go through.”
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With this first objective of bringing back this region into the international tourist map, the Castilla del Oro Foundation will promote “Castilla de Oro” as a place where visitors can explore the history and the steps of 16th century adventurers and become the new discoverers of the 21st century. In this region awaits an earthly paradise, a fortunate land embraced by jungle, history and beach; a bastion of civilization and culture where time moves slowly and remains steady to the passage of time. As a differential, the project will affirm in spiritual tourism.
REFERENCE IN THE GLOBAL TOURISM
“The warmth of the Panamanian people, their customs, their dances, and their nature among many other virtues are what makes a difference when creating an interesting and solid value proposition in world tourism,” stated Christopher Columbus, President of the Castilla del Oro Foundation in Spain.
Cristobal Colon, President of the Castilla del Oro Foundation in Spain; Pedro Rios, Governor of Colon – Panama and Jaime Ruiz Peña, entrepreneur specializing in development of world tourism; while observing Panamanian typical dances.
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Exploitation in the mining industry can become a condition economically and socially favorable for all Panamanians, what we need to do is exploit it responsibly, said the Minister of Commerce & Industry (MICI), Ricardo Quijano.
According to estimates by the CAMIPA, it is estimated that mining activity only in the area of Petaquilla Gold, S. A., company created by the Panamanian businessman Richard Fifer-Carles could generate an investment of 5,000 million dollars, a comparable figure to what will be invested in the expansion of the Panama Canal.
Minister Quijano argues that an investment of this sort would result in social and economic development for the benefit of areas of extreme poverty in the country.
To this date, Petaquilla has on its payroll more than 700 permanent employees.
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Santa Maria de Gracia Church in El Cerro de Andevalo: a baroque-mannerism jewel
Madrid – September, 2011
La Castilla del Oro Foundation, disembarks with a new project in Spain, more precisely in Huelva (Cerro del Andevalo). For this reason, we invite you to get to know the history, customs and life in general of this place in the old Europe, in which La Castilla del Oro Foundation assumes a new challenge; it will develop what its promoter, Engineer Richard Fifer – Carles, calls Social Responsibility of Second Generation.
SANTA MARIA PARISH CHURCH
Solemn and simple, majestical and tidy, the Santa Maria de Gracia Parish Church rises in the Plaza de España (Plaza of Spain) of El Cerro de Andévalo. Since its emplacement of honor, surrounded by the Santisima Trinidad Chapel and the City Council, Santa Maria de Gracia turns into reference and watchtower of the villa, as if it was taking care of the town and its people from the slenderness of its beautiful tower.
Main character of the municipality and center of all its outlines and views, the temple is considered an asset of Cultural Interest, in the category of Monument thanks to its wealth and singularity from a historic and cultural point of view.
In the conjunction of two artistic styles very differentiated, there is the Santa Maria de Gracia Church its main artistic peculiarity.
For one thing, the mannerism style, proper of the XVI century and taken to El Cerro by major master architect of the Archbishopric of Seville, Hernan Ruiz II, designer of culmination works of the Giralda of Seville, who the design and initial construction of the temple of El Cerro between the years 1562 and 1569 is attributed.
Accompanied in curious harmony to the mannerism, the baroque style is especially obvious and perfectly integrated in Parish Church of El Cerro. The architects of Sevillian Archbishopric, Andres de Silva and Antonio Matias de Figueroa, outstanding referrals of the XVIII baroque time, designed the layout of the sacramental chapel, the choir, the tower, the sacristy and the parish hall, using the decorative richness of its time.
Thanks to the unrepeatable ups and downs of History, the Santa Maria de Gracia Parish Church in El Cerro de Andevalo is now a privileged place to admire the peninsular artistic evolutions from the beginnings of the Modern Age.
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Jaime Ruiz Pena and the Duke of Veragua, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal in San Lorenzo
Stories of pirates and corsairs who crossed the Panamanian coasts during the colonial times lay in the deep waters of the mouth of the Chagres River in the Panamanian Caribbean, an entrance still protected by the San Lorenzo Fort.
Several years ago, a team of archaeologists and scientists from the Watt Institute of Discovery and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, started a study in search of cultural resources submerged in the mouth of the Chagres River, in front of the San Lorenzo Real de Chagres Fort.
The results have been pleasant, since several years after, from the deep waters have emerged valuable objects and shipwrecks that have revealed historical testimonies that surround San Lorenzo, revealed an article “Morgan’s cannons, a history of transit”, published by the El Faro Magazine, edited by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP)
“In their underwater research was found a shipwreck, probably of the Satisfaction ship, related to Henry Morgan’s attack in 1671. There were also located remains of the attack and destruction of the Castle of San Lorenzo Real de Chagres by the British admiral Edward Vernon in 1740”, stated El Faro.
Recently, the general director of the Public Enterprises of the Autonomous Region of Extremadura, Spain, Jaime Ruiz Pena, invited to Panama by the Castilla del Oro Foundation in Spain and Panama, a tourism concept conceived by Panamanian entrepreneur Richard Fifer-Carles, took advantage of the scenario projected by the ancient structures of the San Lorenzo Fort, to address the potential historic, cultural, and tourism potential of this site, declared Patrimony of Humanity by the Unesco.
Surrounded by still well preserved walls that dominate the entrance of the Chagres River, agreed upon a gentleman’s pact with the governor of the province of Colon, having the international president of the Castilla del Oro Foundation as witness, Duke of Veragua, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal.
In Pena’s imagination –remembering the stories of pirates and corsairs attacking and taking the San Lorenzo Fort- were the possible reenactments of these epic battles that marked the confrontation of great powers who disputed the treasures and routes to conquer and bring wealth to their lands. A banquet for the tourists…
According to El Faro, the English pirate Henry Morgan divided 470 men between three ships under the command of Joseph Bradley, to take the San Lorenzo Castle “understanding that the Chagres Castle blocked our way”. This is how he came to the fort on January 12, 1671, and sailed right to the entrance of the Chagres River.
Morgan and his ship Satisfaction were the first to run aground the Lajas reef. The collision knocked down the mast and the shipyard, and threw sailors to the water. Other three or four vessels also ran aground before the rest of the fleet was warned to sail away from the reef.
Story tells the boats trapped on the reef were ripped to pieces, while “the wind blew strong through the reef, ten men drowned, while the tide kept rising, even the only woman on board, a witch Morgan kept by his side drowned”.
The Satisfaction weighed 120 tons and carried 22 guns, the biggest ship of the 38 that comprised Morgan’s fleet until it ran aground.
In the beginning of 2011, and under the custody of the Patronato de Panama Viejo, the ACP became involved in the rescue and recovery of the presumed cannons of the Satisfaction.
According to El Faro, the Patronato de Panama Viejo requested technical support from the ACP to evaluate the condition and state of the rescued cannons in the Lajas Reef.
A team coordinated by the Environment Division, the Fleet Maintenance Division, and the Explosives Team of the Canal, performed a metallic conditions and safety evaluation to the cannons. Technical tests are being run and the cannons are starting to be intervened in order to separate the thick layer of incrusted corals.
After being underwater for centuries, the cannons are taken out of the Lajas reef and moved, last June, to the Smithsonian facilities in the Naos Island, at the southern entrance of the Canal; and from there to the labs of the Patronato de Panama Vieja.
These valuable cannons await a long and careful restoration work before being exposed as material evidence and testimony of the long history of the route.
“The cannons will be one of the pieces to complete the historical imaginary of the Panamanians’’, highlights El Faro.
Another piece of this rich puzzle revealed, as we wait for the deep waters to bring up more historical evidence. In this way, the imagination of Ruiz Pena will be adorned with pieces that are a testimony to reality.
For this, they will count with the support of the Castilla del Oro Foundation, created by the vision of Panamanian entrepreneur Richard Fifer Carles, in order to boost the tourism of the rural areas of the provinces of Colon, Cocle, Herrera, Los Santos, and Veraguas.
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By: Hermes Sucre Serrano
National
La Prensa
Wednesday, 8 de August 2007
The Petaquila “Hot Food” program has benefited 5 thousand 400 children from 97 schools in the provinces of Colon and Coclé, said Leonel Arosemena head of the Petaquilla Community Development Program.
The plan, which began on August 7th, 2006, has the support of 325 teachers who prepare and distribute close to 4 thousand plates of food (lunch) per year. Arosemena said that Petaquilla increased its social assistance resources, which covers 40 communities in 50 kilometers around the mine, from 283 thousand 400 dollars to one million 54 thousand dollars.
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