The mayoralty carousel keeps twirling
THE RACE to be the next of Mayor of Panama is currently gaining more attention than the battle for the...
Month: May 2013
If you think the traffic’s bad now, hold on to your hat
DAILY TRAFFIC jams in Panama City appear to be here to stay and are in the opinion of one business...
Rain brings floods, landslides and traffic chaos to Colon
HEAVY RAINS causing floods and landslides left 50 people homeless in Colon on Tuesday, May 28 (more…)
Martinelli appoinments fast tracked
IT TOOK the 15 the Credentials Committee of the National Assembly just 15 minutes to ratify four presidential appointments to...
Mayoralty hopeful out of race claiming second smear campaign
BOBBY VELÁSQUEZ, PRD pre-candidate for the Mayoralty of Panama is out of the race before it has begun, the victim,...
Ruben Blades snags role in Hands of Stone
RUBEN BLADES, celebrated Salsa singer and actor has joined the cast of the film Hands of Stone about the life...
A miracle tree arrives in Panama
A TREE believed to be the most nutrient-dense, enzymatically active plant known to man, and named the “tree of life”...
HEALTH WATCH: Yellow fever rising but booster shot not needed
The ten-year yellow fever ‘booster’ vaccination is no longer needed, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). (more…)
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY: Crazy to arm Syrian rebels
Crispin Black in The Week, May 28 IT LOOKS as though President Assad and his forces are on a bloody...
Panama’s bid for the “Bilbao Effect”
THE TIMING is right. hard on the heels of the news of the early 2014 opening of the Biomuseo in...
Martinelli chalks up $32.8 million in discretionary spending
WITH OVER a year still left in office, President Ricardo Martinelli has outstripped his three predecessors with his “discretionary” spending....
$1.3 billion Montreal health scandal suspect arrested in Panama
ARTHUR PORTER, a man accused of being at the heart of a scandal involving the $1.3 billion McGill University Health...
