Chinese and Spanish bids for new children’s hospital
After years of delay, and ongoing pleas and protests the staff of Panama’s crumbling children’s hospital can now expect to...
Month: April 2019
OPINION: Organized crime and politicians
The representative of the 8-4 circuit Alfredo Fello Perez, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, who is seeking re-election, is under...
Deputy linked to notorious gang seeks re-election
A lawmaker linked to a notorious gang leader, detained in Punta Coco, the maximum security prison reserved for Panama’s most...
Venezuelan gets 4th Portobelo triathalon win
The Venezuelan Eduard Villalta recorded his fourth victory and the Panamanian Carolina Dementiev her second in the 22nd Portobelo triathlon...
ENVIRONMENT: Green Wave fills 300 jumbo garbage bags
The Marea Verde (Green Wave) organization has filled 300 jumbo-sized bags with garbage trapped by BOB, a floating barrier installed...
Canada secretly cut aid to Nicaragua
The Canadian government admitted on Sunday, April 14 that last summer it suspended its financial assistance to Nicaragua because of...
Task force rescues hiker from cliff
A 28-year-old hiker stuck on a precipice on Cerro Los Picachos, Olá, in Coclé, was rescued by Staff of the...
President confirms politicians’ narco- trafficking gang links
President, Juan Carlos Varela confirmed on Saturday, April 13 that the recently arrested narco-trafficking bosses have links to politicians is,...
Cultural gold artifacts now on display to public
At least a hundred gold objects that portray the daily life and death rituals of a pre-Columbian elite in...
Waterless Sunday for city hospitals, homes, businesses
Some current presidential candidates are promising, like Juan Carlos Varela the sitting leader, to solve the country’s recurrent water problems....
80% of Colon oil slick contained
Some 80% of the oil spilled in an area near the port of Cristóbal, in Colón. Has been mopped up...
Martinelli judge ignoring Supreme Court appeal
The judges in the wiretapping trial of former president Ricardo Martinell. (two with close links to his administration are...
