Forty-nine years ago, residents of the Panama Canal Zone were gearing up for Carnival festivities. An article entitled “Carnival Time is Here” published on February 21, 1963 in The Panama Canal Spillway, the official bilingual publication of the Panama Canal, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone reads: “Carnival music is in the air, North Americans and...
A fire broke out Sunday night in El Chorillo leaving one dead and over one hundred homeless. The wooden building, on 21st street, was already completely consumed by flames by the time firefighters arrived on the scene. By 10:30 p.m., they had recovered the burnt body of Adalides Muñoz, age 57. The cause of...
One of two cannons stolen from Panama’s San Lorenzo fort has been recovered. Panamanian customs officials discovered the colonial-era cannon on Wednesday in a container allegedly leaving the Port of Balboa for South Korea. The cannon, which disappeared last week, was identified by x-ray scanners although listed as scrap metal on the container’s manifest....
Participants in the inaugural Ironman 70.3 Panama series are off. Today, at 6:50 a.m., they begin by swimming 1.2 miles at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal and then bike 56 miles over the Bridge of the Americas up the Inter American Highway, followed by a 13.1 mile, two-loop run course on the...
Authorities are looking for two cannons stolen from Fort San Lorenzo in Colon. “We went to San Lorenzo Fort to verify the disappearance of the cannons, and indeed they were stolen,” said Damaso Garcia, the Mayor of Colon. The mayor says that the search would continue and that there were sighting of a truck carrying...
