Community budgets cut – promotion gets $2 million
Panama’s mayor Roxana Mendez,has slashed $7 million from community board budgets for 2013, but allocated $2 million for communication and...
Month: November 2012
Panama launches national donor registry
Panama has launched a national donor registry for organ and tissue donations. But more donors are urgently needed and a...
Alliance for Justice concerned over military moves
The Citizens Alliance for Justice has joined a growing outcry against what critics see as increasing signs of militarism...
Security force accused of assuming political role
The contentious issue of Panama’s border patrol agency Senafront has raised a red flag for the Citizens Alliance for Justice....
Martinelli-Varela love in not on cards,
Hours after President Ricardi Martinelli had waxed enthusiastically about his “friendship” and business relationships with Vice President Juan Carlos Varela,...
From wartime fund raiser to cultural icon
By Dilys Jones A war time fund raiser to purchase a fighter plane for Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) seems...
Gasoline price falls as jams grow
If you are a driver whose wallet has been hit by the Panama plague of traffic jams in recent months,...
HEALTH WATCH: Lifestyle and diet to fight osteoporosis
The number of older persons - defined as aged 60 and over - are growing in virtually every country. There...
A real Shockwave Whose finger on the trigger?
The organizers of the upcoming international friendly football ( soccer) match between Panama and Spain have made an outrageous decision...
FREE song books for Carols by Candlelight
By Dylis Jones The first 10,000 song books for this year’s Carols By Candlelight seasonal charity event in Casco Viejo are...
PRD surges back to biggest party as nearly 50,000 enroll
Nearly 50,000 people enrolled in the Democratic Revolutionary Party(PRD) on Sunday, November 11, making it once again the country’s biggest...
Distrust of government hampers Colon dialogue
Distrust of the Martinelli government is hampering the “dialogue” between the administration and representatives of different groups in Colon, and...
