The Cinta Costera will be closed for part of the day today, Monday, for a parade of giant balloons. There will be about 90 balloons including Barney, Hello Kitty, Elmo, Popeye and Sponge Bob. Each takes about two hours to inflate, and the smallest one is 10 feet high. The police and firefighter bands...
The Mayor’s Office announced that party hours will be extended on Christmas and Christmas Eve. Bars, cantinas, night clubs, grills, hotels, casinos and supermarkets can serve alcohol for 48 hours, an exception to the recently implemented carrot law which restricts liquor sales. “The decision was adopted so that Panamanians and foreigners can celebrate these...
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,...
Recently repatriated former-dictator Manuel Noriega is not the only famous graduate of the School of the Americas. Founded in 1946 by the U.S. government in the Panama Canal Zone near Colon, the school trained over 60,000 military and security officers in the region. In 1984, it relocated to Fort Benning, Georgia under the terms of...
Archaeologists have unearthed the gold-bedecked burial sites of the Pre-Colombian elite in El Caño in the central Coclé province. Julia Mayo, a Panamanian archaeologist and research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and a team of specialists have discovered six large treasure-filled tombs and believe there could be as many as 20 more,...
