Coronavirus evacuation center installed at Tocumen International
While the WHO warns that the world is not taking the new coronavirus Covid-19 seriously and its spread around the...
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Panama carnival toll with delayed fall out
With at least 85,000 vehicles heading to different parts of the interior on Saturday, February 22 to celebrate Carnival the...
MEDIAWATCH: Women’s repression and “suggestive” clothing
These have been terrible months for women's rights in Panama. Femicides have been increasing, as well as the brutality of...
Over 3.400 firefightera on duty for celebrations
A fire that started in grassland and spread to a tire storage center in Felepillo, on Saturday morning, February 22...
Police officer first Carnival victim
The first fatal victim during Panama’s 2020 Carnival celebrations was an on-duty a police officer returning from a call who...
Elected official flaunts ban on State vehicles for Carnival partying
An elected representative of a communal board was one of 43 drivers slapped with a fine for unauthorized use of...
Corruption probe moves closer to Martinelli fugitive sons
Maya Cikuler Spiller, a 46-year-old accountant, was arrested in Uruguay on Thursday, Feb. 20 on an Interpol warrant initiated...
5 tons of coke seized in Bocas, capo caught in Chepo
On Wednesday, February 19 the National Police arrested, in Chepo Manuel Camilo Rentería Lemus the alleged “capo” of the Colombian...
Ex-lawmaker gets preventive detention in money laundering probe
The Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor yesterday ordered the arrest and provisional detention of former Panamenista deputy and lawyer Jorge Alberto Rosas...
Cinta Costera closed for Carnival jinks
Panama’s Cinta Costera totally closed at noon on Friday, Feb 21 to February 26 The partying in the capital start...
No police clampdown on carnival dress as morality and virus debate heats up
Police Chief Jorge Miranda said Wednesday , Feb. 19 that there will be no clampdown on what people wear at...
Carnival green alert for hospital services
The Social Security Fund (CSS) declared a “green alert” before the start of the Carnival celebrations from noon on Friday,...
