Panama exports plummet in first quarter
Panama exports fell 7.6 percent in the first quarter of the year reports the Comptroller General. The sale of products...
Month: May 2019
Panama can’t face 5 years without reform
Panamanian democracy cannot face another five years without adjustments, and today is a golden opportunity for change says the...
ENVIRONMENT: Battling plastic in Panama mangroves
OVER 300 volunteers participated in a garbage clean up in the Juan Díaz mangroves, on Sunday, May 19, in the...
Third Canal locks produce 50% of toll income
Income from the third set of locks is living up to predictions and is already generating almost half of the...
New galleries opening at Bio Museum
Two new galleries of Panama’s BioMuseo (Museum of Biodiversity) will be inaugurated on Thursday, May 22 and open to the public...
OPINION: When losers remain winners
One of the worst peculiarities of the Panamanian electoral system is the possibility of the same person being a candidate...
‘Pay for no work’ embezzlement probe
A criminal investigation into alleged botellas (salaries paid for nonexistent jobs) at the Panamanian Autonomous Cooperative Institute (Ipacoop), which governs...
Landing gear alert returns Copa flight to Panama
A Copa Airlines plane carrying 166 passengers and six crew members en route to the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, returned...
Green Alert – roadworks legacies become rivers
Heavy rains which followed a five-day “Green Alert” from Panama’s Civil Protection System (Sinaproc) on Saturday, May 18 flooded...
$90 million drug seizure in Colon
Panama’s National Aeronaval Service (Senan) seized 1,517 packages of suspected alleged drugs worth $90 million on the international market inside...
City of Health on life support
Panama’s City of Health continues on life support after yet another failed attempt to revive its flagging recovery program. The...
