Dream team not in place –Mayor asks for more time
From the sidelines With public attention and the media focused on the violent confrontations in Bocas del Toro, and the...
Month: July 2010
Warrants against 17 Panama strike leaders withdrawn
Panama's Assistant Attorney General, Ángel Calderón, has announced that the warrants issued for at least 17 union leaders, who supported...
Jaw jaw will replace war war in revision of Law 30 articles
Panama’s Cabinet moved swiftly on Tuesday evening (July 13) to approve a resolution to create a special commission to negotiate...
Panama’s national strike claimed to be 95 percent effective, Supreme Court picket planned
Panama's National Front for the Defense of Social Rights (Frenadeso) called an end to the peaceful national strike which shut...
Suspended Attorney General says her phone is being tapped
Panama's suspended Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez, said Tuesday that she knows that, like some political leaders in the country,...
Opposition claims six dead and over 1,000 injured in Bocas strike
The secretary general of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), Mitchell Does, who heads the Panamanian opposition, said on Monday that...
U.S. Embassy issues strike unrest warning
The U.S. Embassy in Panama City has alerted U.S. citizens to potential unrest in Panama City during the general strike...
Authoritarianism and he closing of democratic exhaust valves
What the Papers Say La Prensa July 12 Sense seems to have flown out of the presidential office The popular...
Police action decried by Panamas Minister of Education
Panama’s Minister of Education, Lucy Molinar has called the action by police officers who besieged the hotel Soloy, on Saturday...
Government backs down in Bocas. General strike still planned
The strike in Bocas del Toro over the controversial Law 30 which has left two people dead, and scores injured...
Security minister promises to use Jailhouse law against demonstrators
Public Security Minister, Jose Raul Mulino, said on Sunday that the National Police (PN) have been prudent in managing the...
Bocas problems caused by misinformation –Martinelli
President, Ricardo Martinelli, said on Sunday that the crisis in Bocas del Toro which has led to two deaths during...
