No compensation for pirate buses – ATTT
As the crackdown continues on pirate buses attempting to operate on public transit routes continues The Transit Authority (ATTT), has...
NEWS
Questions on controversial oil terminal ownership ignored
Members of an environmental advocacy group were blocked from a Monday, April 15 press conference called by Bona Pacific Corp....
HEALTH: Vaccines arrive ahead of flu season
THE RAINY season is also the flu season in Panama, and on Monday, April 15, the first consignment of influenza...
Chinese and Spanish bids for new children’s hospital
After years of delay, and ongoing pleas and protests the staff of Panama’s crumbling children’s hospital can now expect to...
OPINION: Organized crime and politicians
The representative of the 8-4 circuit Alfredo Fello Perez, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, who is seeking re-election, is under...
Deputy linked to notorious gang seeks re-election
A lawmaker linked to a notorious gang leader, detained in Punta Coco, the maximum security prison reserved for Panama’s most...
Venezuelan gets 4th Portobelo triathalon win
The Venezuelan Eduard Villalta recorded his fourth victory and the Panamanian Carolina Dementiev her second in the 22nd Portobelo triathlon...
ENVIRONMENT: Green Wave fills 300 jumbo garbage bags
The Marea Verde (Green Wave) organization has filled 300 jumbo-sized bags with garbage trapped by BOB, a floating barrier installed...
Canada secretly cut aid to Nicaragua
The Canadian government admitted on Sunday, April 14 that last summer it suspended its financial assistance to Nicaragua because of...
Task force rescues hiker from cliff
A 28-year-old hiker stuck on a precipice on Cerro Los Picachos, Olá, in Coclé, was rescued by Staff of the...
President confirms politicians’ narco- trafficking gang links
President, Juan Carlos Varela confirmed on Saturday, April 13 that the recently arrested narco-trafficking bosses have links to politicians is,...
Cultural gold artifacts now on display to public
At least a hundred gold objects that portray the daily life and death rituals of a pre-Columbian elite in...
