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...
NEWS
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,...
Turning history into 21st Century gold
The cannons that disappeared from Panama’ historic fortresses at San Lorenzo and Portobelo have been recovered … in a container...
A crime lights the way to a major opportunity
By Dafydd Young The recent theft of two cannons from historic Fort San Lorenzo is both a crime and another...
Health check
David Young, publisher of Newsroom Panama is out of intensive care, and on the road to recovery. (more…)
A chance to spend a day messing about in boats
By Lourdes Quijada “There is NOTHING – absolute nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing around in...
