NEWS BRIEFS

FOREIGN search teams with specially trained dogs ended their fifth day of looking for missing Dutch tourists Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in Boquete without finding any trace of the missing women.

The operation continued Saturday, May 31 in the vicinity of the residence where the young women were staying in Alto Boquete. The teams will take a day off on Sunday.

COPA airlines direct flights to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, will start on Tuesday June 2. Direct flights to Toronto are already operating.

THE  WATER  supply to various parts of Panama city will be suspended fromon Sunday 7:00 am to 6:00 pm on Sunday June 1, to allow work on the  widening of Via Domingo Diaz.

The areas affected are Juan Diaz, Las Acacias, Versailles, Altos de las Acacias, Don Bosco, Teremar, Caobos, Los Robles and Bello Horizonte.

THE SHERATON hotel at Atlapa is following the lead of other  major hotels and introducing a $4 charge for valet parking, starting June 2. The trend was set by the Trump Hotel. The Riu, on Calle 50, still leaves it to the customer to decide what he wants to give to the car jockey. Meanwhile some deputies at the National Assembly are musing about legislation to prevent MultliPLaza from charging shoppers for parking at the mall.