WORLDVIEW: Biting the hand that doesn’t feed
By Jonathan Power There was a great piece of news announced last week by the World Health Organisation. Wild-polio has...
Year: 2020
Cortizo sticks to reopening timetable
While business organizations continue to make dire predictions the economy is not reactivated at a faster pace than that approved...
OPINION: Sex-Ed vs Reelection
The results of a recent study by the Gorgas Institute on the transmission of the sex disease chlamydia trachomatis among...
Panama pandemic deaths pass 2000 mark
Panama exceeded 2000 deaths from COVID-19, on Monday, August 31 with the accumulated total of 2002 deaths so far in...
Search continues for alleged mass graves linked to religious cult
Panama’s National Air Naval Service (Senan) is searching for alleged mass graves and another suspect in for alleged torture and...
President sidesteps issue of high profile quarantine violaters
Panama President, Laurentino Cortizo, came out of his shell on Monday, August 31 to respond to public concern over the...
60% chance of increased rain from La Niña
There is a 60 percent chance of increased rainfall for most of the remaining months of the year because of...
Lease shortens as extradition request for Martinelli sons ruled valid
The request to the United States to extradite the brothers Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares , accused of...
OPINION: In search of leadership
During the pandemic, high and low-level politicians have set a bad example that many more Panamanians have followed. At the...
Partygoers AND protestors at restaurant will be sanctioned
Under the premise that the law is the same for everyone Minister of Health, counselor Eyra Ruiz confirmed Sunday,...
Some businesses "will fail in a week" if reopening delayed
There are businesses in Panama that cannot survive for another week if the government fails to speed up the reopening...
Right-wing rebels assassinate FARC political leader in Colombia
A leader of the FARC party was assassinated by right-wing ELN rebels in the north of Colombia, where already 225...
