Pediatric Hospital surgeries, patient visits suspended
ELECTIVE surgery and patient visits will be suspended for ten days at the Pediatric Specialties Hospital (HEP) for urgent structural...
Month: February 2018
380 grass fires in five weeks
THE PANAMA FIRE Department has been called out to douse 380 grass and undergrowth fires in the first five weeks of...
Police and tow trucks hitCarnival drivers jackpot
BY EARLY afternoon on Sunday, February 11, the National Traffic Operations Directorate of the National Police, had handed out 2,...
One dead 30 injured on first Carnival day
One person was killed and 30 injured in 119 traffic accidents on the first day of Operation Titan 2018:"Safe Summer...
Three overnight quakes recorded in Panama
An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook Panama City on Saturday night, February 10, reports the University of Panama Institute of Geosciences....
Pope Francis opens registration for WYD Panama
Pope Francis became the first person to register for the 2019 World Youth Day (WYD) in Panama with the words:...
OFF THE CUFF: Carnival dodgers exit Panama
Not everyone in Panama celebrates Carnival, and in spite of the cheerleading from whoever heads the tourism office in...
65,807 vehicles, (and counting), head to interior
By 10 am on Saturday, February 10, some 65,807 vehicles were heading for the interior to celebrate carnival or spend...
Child rights group demands sex-ed action
WHILE a draft law on sex education sits s frozen in the National Assembly The Committee on the Rights of...
Boat deaths sharpen weather warnings
The actions of commercial boat operators leading to deaths, overturned craft and overnight tourist strandings give a special edge to...
39 Panama traffic deaths this year
AN unidentified woman was hit and killed on Via Espana in Rio Abajo on Friday morning, February 9 a day...
Portable Shower Trucks Load Up For Carnival
A TOTAL of 62 tanker trucks sucked up their first load of water on Friday night, Feb. 9 for the...
