Ombudsperson Patria Portugal paid nearly $250,000 for graphic design work for her website. Work included rebranding the institution with a new logo, high resolution copies of any art and development of a web page. The company hired is listed as Imaginarium Studio, S. A., headed by Jean Paul Ortega, age 23 and a member of the…
Panamanian authorities have positively identified the body of missing Canadian Edmund Moynan. Moynan, age 68, mysteriously disappeared from his home in Coronado in November, launching a 4-month investigation that led authorities to his body, found in a suitcase in the Altos de Campana national park. The former Ottawa resident owned Centennial Glass for over two…
A mix of cocaine and horse dewormer from Colombia is being sold in Panama. Cocaine cut with the Levamisole antiparasitic agent is nothing new. Time Magazine reported that it was found in 80 percent of all cocaine seized in the U.S. in 2010, up from 30 percent in 2008. Levamisole has not only been found to enhance…
Fast food companies are continuing to expand their offer of pizzas, quarter pounders and buckets of fried chicken across Panama. Franquicias Panameñas, which manages the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Quiznos, Dairy Queen and Helados Topsi brands in Panama – is investing $7.5 to open two more Pizza Hut and two more KFC branches and remodel existing…
A fire broke out Wednesday morning in Santa Ana. Initial reports indicate that the fire started in a wooden building on Street 13 Central Avenue. It consumed the entire side of the street before jumping to a building across the way on Street 14. Over a hundred firefighters and paramedics arrived on the scene to…
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