Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panama’s most famous general, is scheduled to arrive home by Sunday, says Foreign Minister Roberto Henriquez. The minister specified via tweet that Noriega will arrive from Paris on Iberia airlines at 5:30 p.m. From Tocumen International Airport, he will be transported by helicopter to El Renacer prison for security reasons, said...
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Two Die in Plane Crash
U.S. citizen Monte Pollock and Panamanian Josue Cedeno died Saturday when their small plane crashed miles from the landing strip in Chame. Pollock, age 54 and a passionate skydiver, was piloting the plane. He ran the Panama Skydive outfit in Punta Chame since 2008 where he was a tandem instructor. In June 2009, he...
Yankees Players are in Panama
Derek Jeter, Robinson Cano, CC Sabathia, Curtis Granderson, Jorge Posada and Rafael Soriano are in town for the Latin American Baseball Festival. They are playing on the Andruw Jones All Star team and face off against the Panama All Stars with Carlos Lee, Ruben Tejada, Randall Delgado at Rod Carew Stadium today, Saturday. “The...
Noriega is Coming
Former dictator Manuel Noriega will be returned to Panama in the next couple of weeks, says the French Ministry of Justice. His extradition is approved, and the Panamanian State is now responsible for providing transportation home. The government has already prepared accommodations in the minimum-security El Renacer prison, although Noriega is expected to be...
Women March Against Violence
Women marched in Calidonia on Friday to celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. November 25 has marked the date for the fight violence against women since 1981, in remembrance of the three Mirabel sisters, who were brutally assassinated on the orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1960. So...
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