Road blocks to protest filling of reservoir
THE TEST filling of the reservoir at the Barro Blanco hydro project, began at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday May 24, while Indigenous protestors...
Month: May 2016
Auditions for Seussical this weekend
By Margot Thomas SEUSSICAL the musical based on the books of Dr Seuss is coming to town and if you...
Panama Storm Warning
A STORM warning has been issued by Panama’s Civil Defense Agency (SINAPROC) and the electric company Estesa due to the...
WORLD VIEW: Constant alarm bells aid ISIS
By Jonathan Power ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States”, President Barack Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg of...
Street vendors face off with riot police
RIOT POLICE were called to Central Avenue in Calidonia on Monday May 23, as vendors staged a protest against the...
Protestors to stay put at Barro Blanco
WHILE the government has optimistically announced that testing of the Barro Blanco hydro electric project is close to beginning, ...
OFF THE CUFF: Panamas jet setting deputies rival judges
WHILE DISCUSSIONS in Panama’s National Assembly are sometimes stalled over lack of a quorum , few of the deputies who...
Future of $309.5 million cold chain boondoggle uncertain
THE FUTURE of Panama’s Cold Chain, another unfinished Ricardo Martinelli flagship project is still uncertain, as the present administration continues...
146 face money laundering charges in Panama
WHILE PANAMA struggles to refurbish its image in the wake of the Mossack Fonseca and Waked family scandals, both containing...
WORLD VIEW: Six reasons (not) to love Kissinger
US ELECTION: Six reasons (not) to love Kissinger By Richard Falk TMS News Service. THERE IS an irony that would...
Deteriorating Martinelli era apartments for repair
PROTESTS by residents about the deterioration of the highly touted Urban Renewal apartments in Curundú have borne fruit with an...
Comptroller stymied in audit of boondoggle university project
PANAMA’S comptroller general says that it had difficulty getting information from University of Panama (UP) Rector Gustavo García de Paredes...
