Obarrio tower explosion from gas stove – report
An explosion in an Obarrio apartment tower that injured 20 people, one seriously and the evacuation of 600 residents was...
Month: February 2023
Indigenous protestors close Inter-American Highway
A group of indigenous people closed the Inter-American Highway on Monday, February 23 in the province of Chiriquí, demanding...
Axe falls on prison staff after Friday shootings
After the shooting that left two dead in the La Joya and Nueva Joya prisons last Friday The Minister...
Cloud hangs over carnival as contracts suspended
With less than a week before the celebration of the carnival organized by the Panama Tourism Authority (ATP), irregularities...
No punishment for Carnival boondoggle
The Panama Tourism Authority (ATP) had enough time to call a tender for the services it would need to...
A mandate for organized crime?
Despite the fact that the National Assembly flatly refuses to discuss it for years, the bill that creates the...
Policeman shot at clandestine party
Less than a week after the incident that left a police officer dead and two others injured in the...
Panama responds to UN report on migrant abuse
Panama’s Minister of Security, Juan Pino, said Saturday that the Government will respond to the report of a UN...
Government meets indigenous people threatening to close highways
A government delegation headed by Rafael Sabonge, Minister of Public Works, and Roger Tejada, Minister of Government went on the...
UN accuses Panama of migrant abuses in Darien
Reports of sexual abuse, deprivation of liberty, and forced labor, in the Migrant Reception Stations (ERM) in Darién are in...
Supreme Court provisionally suspends city tax increase
The Third Chamber of Administrative Litigation of the Supreme Court provisionally suspended the seventh, eighth, and ninth articles of...
