Richard Fifer – Mayors and directors from Castilla del Oro analyse project progress

The meeting was chaired by the project director and Cocle businessman, Richard Fifer

Mayors and directors from Castilla del Oro analyse project progress

A meeting to analyse and get a perspective on the progress of the La Castilla de Oro Project, which seeks to promote rural tourism in the central provinces, was held in Penonomé, Coclé. The two groups of Mayors who visited Spain to see how tourism is developed in the country took part.

The meeting, held between a group of mayors and local municipal representatives belonging to Castilla del Oro Foundation, was chaired by the initiative’s director, Cocle businessman Richard Fifer, who stated that the support and enthusiasm of the participants was shaping the project and he encouraged them to go on in the same way until the project was firmly established.

Fifer informed the meeting  that Public companies from Extremadura in Spain would visit Panama during July to approach the Provincial authorities of Colón, and sign an agreement for reactivating the San Lorenzo fort as an international tourist destination.

Similarly, he said that progress had been made on establishing a second operational centre for “La Castilla del Oro Foundation” in Los Santos Province and, as part of the Foundation’s initiatives, a launch had already been acquired to transport tourists in the Pacific sector of the Los Santos and Veraguas Provinces.

Richard Fifer also communicated the Foundation’s participation as flagship sponsor in the Parita Festival; he said that, as a first stage of the initiative, two buses for transporting tourists from the beachside hotels to the historical monuments of Coclé, Los Santos and Veraguas would be available in July.

Fifer said the Tourist Authority required, as part of the project, formal plans for undertaking any initiative by La Castilla del Oro, and that –as part of the commitment–the remodelling of the Casa del Pueblo in Ocú has been reactivated and that soon donations will be made for renovating the San Francisco de la Montaña church tower in Veraguas.

Engineer Richard Fifer also talked about the initiative by Herrera, Mayor of Pesé, to coordinate with the Republic’s vice-President, Juan Carlos Varela, work on Hacienda San Isidro,  an important project the Foundation could adopt.

“When we began this project, all of us here used one word, patience, patience, and more patience, but, as we can see, the Foundation has put unlimited energy into the project as these two short videos show and this is only a sample of the great effort and achievements made by the management and staff of La Castilla del Oro during the first twelve months”, said Richard Fifer.

Finally, he said the aim was to recover, present and preserve history like that of Portobelo, that was the cultural of Panama for hundreds of years,  as is done in Extremadura and Andalucía in Spain where the ancient cultural capitals of the Roman Empire, Caliphate and British culture of the 18^th Century are presented to attract culture, tradition and economic progress to the communities.

Certificates were awarded to the Mayors for their participation in the “New Discoverers” tour that travelled around the Kingdom of Spain in May, visiting the Autonomous Communities of Extremadura, Andalusia and Madrid,  with the aim of discovering new horizons for developing tourism in the La Castilla del Oro Region, made up of Coclé, Herrera, Los Santos, Veraguas and Colón Provinces, and to those

Engineer Richard Fifer with Panamanian authorities.

The project’s directors takes an active part in the project’s