Indigenous concerns still simmering as dialog continues
Talks over mining and hydro electricity plants in indigenous homelands are continuing but across the country groups are waiting to...
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Idaan director to face National Assembly to explain water problems
The director of Panama’s water and sewage authority (Idaan) has been called to appear before the National Assembly to explain...
Mulino resignation gets a new twist
“When does “irrevocable” become maybe? was the question being asked by political observers in Panama on Monday March 12. (more…)
Difficult days ahead for Panama constitutional lawyer
Difficult days are ahead for Panama as a police chief who has committed insubordination gets promoted and cabinet ministers remain...
Cabinet to meet on Mulino resignation, no crisis –Martinelli
The resignation of Panama Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino will be addressed by the Cabinet next week says Minister of Economy...
Seven city areas without water
If you woke up without water in your home on Sunday, March 11, blame the Metro subway construction project. (more…)
Hot under the collar drivers await traffic snarl answers
Temperatures of Panama drivers are rising in sync with rocketing fuel prices and increasing traffic jams. After three months of...
Taxi drivers call for halt to rising fuel prices
Hot on the heels of a government announcement that there is no more money in the subsidy pot. Panama’s taxi...
Malaria vaccine predicted in four years
Richard Feachem, founding executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Feachem says that by 2016...
Crops for biofuel contribute to rocketing food prices
Panama commentators advocating the conversion of crops into biofuels to combating rising fuel prices, might want to read a report...
Earthy water is safe says Health Minister
Minister of Health, Franklin Vergara, has identified three areas where the drinking water has an earthy flavor but says there...
Citizens Assembly calls for police chiefs head
Panama’s Citizens' Assembly on Friday Mar 9, demanded the immediate removal of Gustavo Perez as head of the National Police...
