Drug gang shootout on Avenida Balboa
A DAYLIGHT shootout on Avenida Balboa, in Panama City, involving two motorcyclists and two taxis left several men injured on...
Month: November 2015
David facing another 3 waterless days
SIXTY THOUSAND residents of David, Chiriqui, without water since Friday, November 6 will have to face three more waterless days,...
Social Security programs at risk
TWO OF PANAMA’S Social Security programs, Sickness and Maternity (PEM) and Invalidity, Old Age and Death (IVM), are at risk....
10-year old flood damage case closed
A COURT CASE filed more than 10 years after floods in the neighborhood of Prados del Este in which 21...
Failed bus-strike leader arrested
THE FORMER Metro Bus Operators Union Secretary General, Antenor Guadamuz, was arrested on Nonday morning, November 9 for trying to prevent...
Ex-comptroller implicated in Tonosi scandal
AN AUDIT of the failed irrigation system in Tonosí, Los Santos, which led to millions of dollars in kickbacks...
Panama Commerce Minister resigns
PANAMA’S MINISTER of Trade and Industry, Meliton Arrocha, announced on Telemetro on Monday Nov. 9, that he submitted his formal...
Fifth Carols by Candlelight Charity concert
By Margot Thomas PANAMA’S FIFTH Carols By Candlelight concert at the Mirador Del Pacifico (the fish market end...
Business group asks parking law delay
THE CHAMBER of Commerce has asked the government to delay until 2017, new parking laws governing free parking space and...
OFF THE CUFF: Moscoso gives finger to Varela
FORMER PRESIDENT Mireya Moscoso, who did little to hide her antipathy to fellow Panamenista, Juan Carlos Varela in the run...
Fourth Canal bridge project moving on
CONSTRUCTION of the eight lan fourth bridge over the Panama Canal will be under the direction of the Ministry of...
