One dead three injured in highway shoot out
One person was killed and three injured after a shootout, on the Trans-America highway between Arriajan and Chorrera on Saturday...
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Lawyers team retracing final path of dead tourists
THE LAWYER for the family of Kris Kremers, one of the two Dutch girls who went missing from Boquete on...
48 hours heavy rains alert
A GREEN 48 HOURS weather alert was issued by The National Civil Protection System (SINAPROC on Friday, August 22, with...
Police swoop nets 24 restaurant marauders
POLICE made another 11 arrests on Thursday, August 22 ,during a Panama Province-wide sweep to track down members of the...
Communication breakdown as 37 die in hospital
WHILE the Social Security Fund(CSS) has a sole director who handles both health issues and finances it will be difficult to prevent outbreaks like the one that left...
Ethanol free gasoline ok from Aug. 22
HOURS AFTER a published report that consumers of auto fuels in Panama will have to continue to use gasoline with...
Investigation into $8 million scholarship election bonanza
AN INVESTIGATION has been opened into the delivery of over 20,000 “scholarships” by the Martinelli government during the election campaign....
Chiriqui tragedy kills 10, injures, 116
A LARGE natural reservoir that formed on top of Picacho hill, in La Amistad International Park (PILA), led to the...
13 restaurant marauders now in detention
FIVE MORE suspects with alleged links to the criminal network that has led a series of assaults on restaurants and...
Hospital boss discovered killer tragedy on the news
WHEN THE DIRECTOR of the Social Security Fund (CSS), Guillermo Sáez-Llorens, appeared before the National Assembly on August 13, to...
Panama speeding land auctions to plug revenue holes
PANAMA’S Ministry of Economy and Finance, facing multiple challenges as it unravels the books of the Martinelli administration, is considering...
Assembly calls for firing of “incompetent” comptroller
AFTER two days of grilling in the National Assembly of Comptroller Gioconda Torres de Bianchini, government and opposition deputies who...
