Panama food price controls begin July 1
THE INCOMING Panama Government is not wasting time in implementing one of its campaign promises – food price controls....
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Jail call for vote-buying CD officials
A BUSINESSMAN, civilista, anti-Noriega activist and lead player in the first post Panama invasion government, wants CD vote buying officials jailed....
Asylum revoked, Ecuadoran refugee arrested
A FORMER Ecuadorian Legislator implicated in a triple homicide has been arrested and taken into custody in the Panamanian province...
Popular party gains second post in new government
A SECOND Popular Party(PP) leader has been named by president-elect, Juan Carlos Varela to be sworn in as part of...
Panameista and PRD secure by-election seats
PANAMEÑISTA candidates were victorious in two by elections and the PRD in a third on Sunday, June 8, in Chitré,...
Personal debt in Panama up $13.3%
PERSONAL debt in Panamaumped significantly. In March this year, as consumer loans reached $7.259 billion an increase of $852.9 million...
Assembly employees get $330,000 to entice voters
TWO employees of Panama’s National Assembly received $330,000 for food bags to distribute to voters in their bids to be...
Mariano Rivera Jr selected in major league draft
DOES Panama have another baseball super star in the making? Only time will tell, but according to the site www.mlb.com...
Thief dies on camera in hail of police bullets
A THIEF was killed by police on camera following the robbery of a Chinese owned store on Avenida B on...
Casco historic hotel opening gets third extension
THE ONGOING saga of Panama’s Central Hotel, continues with yet another extended deadline for the start of the operations in...
Those Canucks know how to throw a party
By Margot Thomas With over three weeks to go, over a third of the available places for a Canada...
Two more missing persons in Chiriqui
FOLLOWING the disappearance of two young Dutch tourists in Boquete, Chiriqui two more people have been reported missing in the...
