Copa starting direct flights to Puerto Vallarta
Starting in mid-December, Copa Airlines will start direct flights to Puerto Vallarta & Riviera Nayarit its fifth Mexican destination. The...
Month: June 2018
Reward for info on missing American woman expat
The owner of a Boquete, Chiriqui restaurant has offered a $500 reward for reliable information leading to the discovery of...
President wants $300 million to save 20,000 jobs
President Varela, has announced that he will ask the National Assembly for a tax exemption to raise the deficit by...
OPINION: Replacing party hacks with professionals
Infrastructure and state projects in Panama lack serious studies that allow calculating with moderate accuracy its final cost. The model...
MEDIA WATCH:Topless women protest Facebook rules
By Lee Kyung-min Korean Times A group of female protesters went topless in a rally against Facebook, Saturday, protesting its...
20,000 in Panama reforestation drive
While illegal logging among indigenous communities in Darien and other areas continues over 20,000 volunteers turned out across the country on...
OFF THE CUFF: Panama’s rising “leader”
GLOBE-TROTTING for Panamanian politicians is not limited to the President Juan Carlos Varela and his Vice President and Chancellor, Isabel...
Business leaders seek government link and tourism strategy
Panama’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (Cciap) continues to push the government to establish a public-private partnership to...
3 dead, 4 injured in Saturday crashes
THREE people died and four were injured on Saturday, June 2 in a series of unrelated traffic incidents. The first,...
Soccer diplomacy eases president’s IMF load
President Juan Carlos Varela, his day lightened by the sight of Panama’s National football team boarding a plane for the...
LGBTIQ flag in Casco Viejo raises protests
Panama’s LGBTIQ community plans a month of activities to raise awareness of the rights of the community leading up to...
Nine-year paramedic hero killed in crash
A medical emergency supervisor who spent nine years with the Unified Emergency Management System (Sume 911)., pulling bodies and injured...
