Colombia’s president-elect, Juan Manuel Santos, arrives in Panama tonight to talk bilateral issues with President Martinelli on Friday. Santos is traveling around Latin American before taking on the Colombian presidency starting August 7. He arrives from Mexico where he met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez and World Bank president Robert...
After arriving to Bocas del Toro, Bill Cortez and his partner, who are being investigated for multiple murders in Bocas del Toro, built a bar over the water 100 yards down the shore from the property they had taken over in Cauchero. Originally, they planned to run the property as a bar but ended...
The Panamanian government announced the creation of a special commission to investigate what happened in Bocas del Toro between July 5 and 13. The independent commission will analyze the events and excesses that led to death, injury and arrest when banana workers clashed with the police during the violent protests. Members include Ruben Castillo,...
In the largest drug bust so far this year, authorities decommissioned 2,447 kilos of cocaine after an intense chase yesterday morning in Colon. Panama’s National Aeronaval Service pursued a 44-foot speedboat from the Santa Isabel-Isla Grande area until it flipped out of the water and onto a house in Puerto Pilon. No one was...
Costa Rica and Panama joined forces to set up a collection center for empty chemical containers used on the field crops in the border area between the two countries. Jorge Esquivel Ferrero, who manages the Clean Our Fields Foundation program, said this is the fifth collection center in Costa Rica, set up to address...
