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...
Year after year wildfires are reported on the India Dormida mountain at the edge of the dormant El Valle crater. This year, the fires have been burning since Friday and have spread rapidly. Firefighters say there is little they can do because of the remoteness of the area, La Prensa reports. The outline of...
