7 rescued from overturned boat with impaired captain
FIVE ADULTS and two children who were aboard a tourist boat that overturned in Bocas Del Toro were rescued by...
NEWS
Panama Sexual Abuse Cases Climbing
SEXUAL abuse is on the rise in Panama with 4,817 reported cases in the first nine months of 2017, an...
118 new buses join Panama fleet
STARTING on Monday, January 15, 118 new Torino buses will be incorporated into Panama’s transit system to reinforce the MiBus...
New technology for insurance checks, accident reports
STARTING in February Police and traffic inspector s will be testing a technological program to verify the status of a car’s...
Varela judicial picks face tough ride
THE LIKELIHOOD of President Juan Carlos Varela’s picks for Supreme Court judges ever taking their seats is shrinking daily as...
WEATHER ALERT, Winds, waves, rain
ANOTHER weather alert was issued by The Emergency Operations Center (COE) of the National Civil Protection System (Sinaproc). on Friday,...
Mexico grabs Panama drug narco Fakir
Mexico grabs Panama drug narco “fakir” A LEADING drug trafficker, wanted in Panama for homicide, was arrested by Mexican authorities...
Sticky fingered ex-minister wins and loses
PANAMA’S former Finance Minister Frank De Lima got a free pass from preventive detention on Friday, January 12. After a...
American killed in possible botched execution
MICHAEL MOYSECH, the American who was killed in a Punta Pacifica café may have been a botched execution. Two men...
Trump, A Line Too Much For US Ambassador
THE RESIGNATION of John Feeley, the US Ambassador to Panama was motivated by disagreement with the policies of the Trump...
Anti-corruption protest stirs pot
THE ANTI-CORRUPTION gathering of 10,000 citizens on the Cinta Costera, on January 9 is beginning to, pay off, as the...
OPINION: Facing a new reality
In its advisory opinion of November 24, 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights made a very significant pronouncement on...
