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EU nixes black list naming Panama
The 28 member countries of that make up the European Union (EU) have rejected the 'black' list drawn up by...
FBI plans regional anti-corruption unit
The Odebrecht and Petrobras cases in Brazil have motivated the United States’ FBI to create an anti-corruption squad for Latin...
Helicopters fight forest reserve fire
Panama’s National Aeronaval Service (Senan) working with Ministry of Environment and the Fire Department used helicopters carrying giant buckets to...
Canal board nominees under fire
The ratification process of the three nominees for to the board of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), by President Juan...
41 hurt,12 hospitalized in bus crash
At least 12 people were still in hospital on Wednesday, March 6, following an accident that injured at least 41...
3 convicted killers in Carnival jailbreak.
Three convicted killers serving jail sentences totaling 110 years escaped from the La Joyita prison during Carnival. All three were...
Panama’s failing tourism ploys
The low performance of tourism in Panama in recent years does match up to the high investments that the Panamanian...
Carnival deaths highlight cash priorities
José Donderis, director of Panama’s Civil Protection the National System of Civil Protection (Sinaproc), hit out at misapplied funding of...
Overcrowding not UV alerts frustrate revelers
Hundreds of frustrated would-be revelers who, in spite of repeated extreme UV alerts from the Civil Protection Service (Sinaproc) arrived ...
Venezuelan events “a coup attempt”
Venezuela’s ambassador to the European Union (EU), Claudia Salerno, has described events in her country as a coup attempt," in...
Retiree hospitalized after killer bee attack
Two days after the death of a man attacked by African killer bees in Herrera, a 75-year-old is under observation...
