Costa Rica’s New Maximum-Security Mega-Prison Imitating Bukele’s in El Salvador. 
Your Morning Smile 
The Young Panama Woman Injured by a Falling Wall During the Earthquake, Awakens. 
Construction will Proceed on the San Miguelito Cable Car Project. 
Panama’s José “Chema” Caballero in the News. 
New Canal toll record
THE RECORD toll for a ship transiting the Panama Canal was broken on Friday, July 8, only a week after...
Bishops move to stall sex-education bill
PANAMA’S BISHOPS have made their expected move to block or delay a proposed sexual education program for schools as the...
Panama Bank fingered in Brazil bribery probe
ANOTHER PANAMA link to the Lava Jato (car wash) bribery scandal that has led to the collapse of Brazil’s government...
OPINION: USA decline played out nightly
By Mark Scheinbaum MIAMI (July 8)—Sociologists will try to explain why countries such as the United Kingdom and Iceland have...
Martinelli Lawyers try to block extradition
THE EXPECTED moves by the lawyers of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli to attempt to block his extradition to face criminal charges, ...
Outgoing UP rector’s “shield”directive “unethical”
A DECLARATION signed by University of Panama (UP) outgoing Rector Gustavo García de Paredes and Secretary General Miguel Angel Candanedo...
13 injured in two bus collision
THIRTEEN people were rushed to hospital on Thursday afternoon, July 7, after a collision between two buses in Arriajan, Panama West province...
Mizrachi asylum plea rejected
PANAMA PLAYBOY, fugitive suspected embezzler, and Ricardo Martinelli relative, Mayer Mizrachi, who has been thumbing his nose at Panamanian authorities...
Auditions for Dracula based production
The Theatre Scene with Margot Thomas AUDITIONS are under way for a Theatre Guild of Ancon production of an original...
Moral sanctions for work shy deputies
THE NATIONAL Assembly is aiming to put moral pressure on its work shy members to fill the role they were...
32 child and teen pregnancies every day
AT LEAST 32 children and adolescents between the ages of 10 become pregnant every day in Panama according to The...
Waked family loses another jewel
ANOTHER JEWEL has been removed from the fading crown of the Waked family business conglomerate in Panama. The Superintendency of...