Panama car sales boom a challenge for road commuters
IF YOU ARE backing on the easing of Panama’s traffic snarls with the new roadworks and the opening of the...
Month: January 2014
The Canal expansion conundrum still unsolved
WHEN IT COMES to the future of work on the Panama Canal expansion project and the $1.6 billion dispute, the...
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY: Has the other shoe dropped?
WHO GETS to be president of the world’s most powerful country concerns people in all countries, which helps explain why...
Choice of Solis as VP candidate strengthens PRD presidential bid – Weeden
PANAMA’S Former Comptroller Alvin Weeden said Monday. January 13 that the choice of Gerardo Solis as the vice presidential candidate...
Coincidence and polleras unite Canadian families in Panama
By Lourdes Quijada Daniel Martinez followed in the tracks of scores of scores of thousands of Latin Americans and emigrated...
Over $7 million drug dollars seized at Tocumen
OVER SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS in cash, the proceeds of drug smuggling, was seized at Tocumen International Airport on the weekend....
Broken fire hydrants hamper firefighters at 15-hour blaze
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-EIGHTY firefighters using eight trucks fought for over 15 hours to control a supermarket fire in Villa Zaita between Panama...
Constitutional challenge to land deals for Martinelli associate
TWO CONSTITUTIONAL challenges to a cabinet approved land deal benefiting a close associate of President Ricardo Martinelli have been filed...
Panama losing war on dengue
PANAMA is losing the battle to overcome the dengue epidemic declared on December 30. (more…)
Navarro running mate breaths fire into PRD campaign
THE NAMING of former electoral judge Gerardo Solis as running mate of PRD presidential candidate Juan Carlos Navarro has breathed...
HEALTH WATCH: Away from the knife – new approaches to treating depression
By Michael Greger, M.D Before Thorazine was invented in 1950, mental illness was often treated surgically. In fact, in 1949...
The shadow buses of Metro Panama
AS USER complaints about poor service and long waits for buses continue to climb in Panama, there is still no...
