Drinks curfew lifted in time for thieves happy hunting season
Just a day after Panama police warned of a December increase in crime, the city mayor signed a decree allowing the...
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Local thieves and con artists looking forward to Christmas shopping
December is the month when local criminals do their Christmas shopping without cash or checks changing hands. (more…)
Emails reveal government links with Italian fugitive –report
The close relationship between a fugitive from Italian justice and a senior official of the Martinelli government seems to be...
Panama looks on as Pacific Alliance moves forward
Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, members of the Pacific Alliance, have taken another step towards becoming an engine of development...
European city makes giving to beggars illegal
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA has prohibited begging and giving money to beggars in the streets. (more…)
Civig groups uniting to fight privatization moves
Panama’s National Civic Coordinator, which brings together 60 citizen groups, has,called for a public debate on Bill 349, which...
Civic groups uniting to fight privatization moves
Panama’s National Civic Coordinator, which brings together 60 citizen groups, has,called for a public debate on Bill 349, which plans...
Panamas civilistas to protest any negotiated deal for Noriega silence
Panama’s Civil Crusade will take to the streets again to repudiate former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega who will be heading...
Panama still awaiting burying of overhead cables
Via Argentina, One of Panama’s most loved pedestrian thoroughfares, is suffering from an abundance of overhead cables hanging down close...
Yankee’s Rivera undergoes surgery
Panama’s all star baseball player, New York Yankees' closer, Mariano Rivera, has undergone surgery to remove a polyps in the...
Slapstick in the battle to take on President Obama
Alexander Cockburn, the irascible Brit commentator living in California, returned to The Week after his brief Thanksgiving relapse with some...
Singing children traverse Casco Viejo to launch Carols by Candelight
Nearly a 100 young children carrying candles marched through the streets of Casco Viejo on Thursday, eveming, to witness the...
