Year: 2020
To the stocks for lockdown violators
A dozen indigenous youths, members of the Piriati Embera community in the Chepo district have been sentenced to time in...
Appointment needed for Atlapa virus test
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) has warned that those who have not made an appointment using the attention number 169,...
Drug trafficking falls in wake of virus pandemic
The checkpoints and restrictions applied by security forces in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have caused a decrease in drug trafficking...
Justice with “dynamism” awaits corruption suspects
Once the suspension of the judicial terms is lifted, the Public Ministry (MP) and its prosecutors will start the processes...
Up to 10 virus deaths outside hospital system
Attorney General Eduardo Ulloa,in an April TVN interview, confirmed that among over 275 corpse lifts between March and April,...
Archbishop’s quarantine breaking tour condemned by key advisor
An Easter Sunday tour of Panama and San Miguelito by Archbishop Domingo Ulloa blessing the faithful who were in total...
3,400 COVID-19 cases, 87 deaths as curfew flouters roam
While The Ministry of Health (Minsa) was confirming on Sunday, April 12 that 166 new cases of coronavirus had brought...
Curfew breakers convert to street cleaners
Scores of people arrested for breaching the COV-19 quarantine walked the streets of La Chorrera, on Sunday, April 12 carrying...
Clouded Social Security deal sidelined
President Laurentino Cortizo reacted quickly to media exposure of the clouded track record of a Panama-Mexico consortium, cobbled together to...
Tougher sanctions as death toll zooms and thousands flout curfew
Nearly 12,000 people who have defied the government's stay-at-home orders had been arrested by the early hours of Saturday, April...
