Electric cars should be available in Panama by mid-2012 as a more economical alternative to dependence on fossil fuels. A conventional vehicle will spend $3,000 per year in gasoline, while the electric car will consume around $800, promoters told La Prensa. The eco-friendly cars, including sedan, hatchback and panel models, operate on 12-volt batteries...
National Environmental Authority officials went undercover to prevent the unlawful sale of two young jaguars in La Chorrera. Posing as buyers,they paid $1,000 a piece for the felines, who were reportedly lifted from the Darien after their parents were shot and killed. The jaguar is the only Panthera in the Americas and is a near...
A 4.5 earthquake hit off of the Pacific Coast in western Chiriqui at 11:36 a.m. on Wednesday. The populations of Puerto Armuelles and Alanje felt the tremors, but no one was injured. This is the sixth earthquake in Panama this week. There were three on Sunday, two near Coiba Island and one in Darien,...
No one can really say when the rain will stop. “The forecasts are unstable, because the rain system that we are facing is not normal,” Arturo Alvarado, Director of the National Civil Protection Service told Telemetro. Heavy rains started last Friday, December 16, and have flooded several communities in the provinces of Bocas del...
There will be no water service for the sectors of Bella Vista, Perejil and Calidonia tomorrow, Wednesday. The Institute of Aqueducts and Sewer Systems says that cuts will be in effect between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to accommodate work on Metro Line 1. The institute adds that it hopes that this type of...
