Lightning strikes kill three
LIGHTNING struck and killed three people on Panama beaches in a 24 hour period. On Tuesday, April 18, the bodies...
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Varela promises more Coln security
SECURITY strategies will be strengthened to deal with and end organized crime said President Juan Carlos Varela at the end...
Panamas Afrodisiaco multi-country tour
AFRODISIACO, the Panamanian winner of the Festival Viña del Mar in Chile 2016, is about to set out on...
Tobacco sale and smoking banned from Azuero Fair
THE SALE or promotion of tobacco products (cigarettes and their derivatives), electronic cigarettes and hookahs will be banned at the...
SMILE: Exercise for the over 50s
Submitted by a reader in Entebbe, Uganda. BEGIN by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room...
The tortuous route to electoral reform
PANAMA’S PRESIDENT, Juan Carlos Varela is regularly caricatured as a tortoise, as he ponders at length before making decisions. It...
Mossack Fonseca pot still on the boil
NAMES of those involved in the Odebrecht bribery scandal are being revealed in Brazil through the broadcasting of videoed confessions...
CSS doctors join Santo Tomas strikers
SOME 800 doctors from the Social Security Fund (CSS) have joined the indefinite strike launched by specialists and interns at...
First Lady reports death threats against disc jockey son
PANAMA’S FIRST LADY Lorena Castillo de Varela has restricted access to her Twitter account after denouncing death threats made against...
MEDIA WATCH: Cake and golf leader
President Trump’s spending of public money on his own ease and comfort is lavish and wasteful. His attitude toward taxpayers...
Third strike against political theft probe
PANAMA’S SUPREME COURT has again reinforced the oft repeated widespread belief that there is a non-aggression pact between the Court...
WORLD VIEW: The North Korean hot potato
By Jonathan Power THERE ARE 29 states which have at one time or another set about becoming nuclear weapons powers...
