Florida zoo throws party for Panama jaguar
FIONA, an orphaned Panamanian jaguar who survived wounds from poachers’ dogs three years ago, celebrated her third birthday in her...
Month: October 2017
Tanker truck fire closes highway
A TANKER truck crashed and caught fire on Friday afternoon closing the Panama-Colón Expressway to traffic heading for Panama City....
Staff payment guaranteed if Panama media group closes
SEPARATION payments of the 250 employees of Grupo Editorial El Siglo and La Estrella (GESE) will be guaranteed if they...
OPINION: Taxpayers hit by Americas Bridge snafu
THE BRIDGE of the Americas is an emblematic work of our country. In its 55-year history, this work of engineering...
Globetrotting judges ask for more
PANAMA’S globetrotting judicial branch continues to ignore travel budgets with Supreme Court president Jose Ayu Prado leading the pack of...
Storm leaves 7 dead, homes flooded
TROPICAL STORM Nate has left seven dead in Costa Rica and thousands had to be evacuated from their homes. In...
Storm cancels Costa Rica flights
TROPICAL STORM Nate forced Copa airlines to cancel or delay flights on the Panama- Costa Rita route on Thursday, Oct...
US chemical weapons in Panama destroyed
THE LAST of the chemical munitions left on a Panama island by the US military have been destroyed says a...
HEALTH WATCH: Choosing Normal Blood Pressure
By Michael Greger MD For the first 90% of our evolution, humans ate diets containing less than a quarter teaspoon of salt...
UK’S Ishiguro wins Nobel literature award
NEWSER – After last year's unconventional decision to give Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize for Literature, the panel went a more...
IDAAN strike costing $120,000 a day
THE STRIKE of 3,100 workers of Panama’s National Water and Sewers Authority (IDAAN) is costing the institute $120,000 a day,...
Colombia arrests 4 in Panama Papers probe
THE PANAMA PAPERS revelations of scores of thousands of corporations created by Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca to help corporations...
