A 1911 photo of Colon Front Street which was built almost entirely by West Indian labor.

From its inception, The Silver People Heritage Foundation has emphasized the importance of the intangible cultural heritage left by our Silver forefathers, that vast group of Black men and women who reached the shores of Panama from the numerous Caribbean islands to work at the mega projects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The projects that we tend to focus on were the building of the Banana Empire throughout the western part of Panama (namely Bocas del Toro Province), the construction of the Panama Railroad and the construction of The Panama Canal. Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the informational web site for the Silver People of Panama.

On this site we hope to keep our faithful followers from all our blogs, our family of readers and descendants of The Silver People updated on the exciting new developments that are occurring in Panama and abroad.

We hope to provide information and stimulate awareness about what we, The Silver People Heritage Foundation, are doing to further the understanding and appreciation for the monumental contributions of the once proud and hard working West Indian people of Panama.

On this web site we offer links to all our blogs and web pages; you need only click on the tab above that says blogs. We will also keep you updated on developments with our various projects and publications. Feel free to look around and explore.

We especially urge you to click on the tab Tutorials to enjoy the numerous how to articles on how to use navigate on our blogs and web pages. We have created this special menu for many of our readers who are new to Internet and to reading blogs.

As always, we invite your feedback, suggestions and opinions.