Bargains still abound at Boquete Bid 4
With Lourdes Quijada Oh they are busy bees in Boquete. The first message in my in-box today, Sunday, was from...
NEWS
Dirtiest job in town has poor cleaning facilities
Health measures for garbage collectors working for Panama’s Urban and Household Cleaning Authority (AAU) lag behind acceptable norms. (more…)
CARNAVAL – Cell phone addicts boost revenue pot
Drivers who decided to add cell phone chatting to the usual menu of booze, sex and noise, during Panama's pre-Lenten...
Dj vu for contracting for Carnival Jumbo Rumba
As Jumbo Rumba (this year’s title for Panama City’s, $2.5 million dollar pre-Lenten extravaganza) gets into its stride history repeats...
Thumbs up for Martinelli asylum decision
President Ricardo Martinelli’s whose drop in approval ratings continues to fall at home, got a thumbs up from a group...
Police contradict evidence of gunshots against protestors
In spite of autopsy reports following the death of a young protestor in Chiriqui, and sequence photographs in La Estrella...
Protestors slow traffic to speed talks
A group of about 200-Bugle Ngobe Bugle closed off a section of the Pan- American Highway, at the Vigui River...
Beefed up security for Carnival
Jose Castillo, head of the National Police in Panama City announced that an extra 125 police in groups of five...
BACKGROUNDER: The story behind the sentences
In March 2011, Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa brought criminal libel charges against Emilio Palacio, columnist for the Guayaquil-based daily El Universo....
Panama grants asylum to Ecuador editor as criticism mounts
Carlos Eduardo Pérez Barriga, director and editor of the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo, has sought asylum in Panama’s Embassy in...
Memories of a baseball hero and man of charity
By Mark Scheinbaum* AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Mets catcher Gary Carter in 1986 receiving $2.07 million a year for his baseball...
Newsroom heading back to full swing
Our apologies for reduced coverage during the illness of our editor and publisher, With additional staff and a recovering editor,...
