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Ceasing Mining Activity Raised Unemployment in Coclé, Columbus (Colón) and Chiriquí 
Ceasing Mining Activity Raised Unemployment in Coclé, Columbus (Colón) and Chiriquí 
US tight lipped on Martinelli extradition
THE US STATE Department has refused to comment on three requests of Transparency International (IT) on the status of Panama’s extradition...
Dentists bring smiles to Hospital del Nino
By Margot Thomas HUNDREDS of government-clinic dentists used to spending long hours hunched over a dental chair carrying on a...
Panama recieves Martinelli helicopter.
THE HELICOPTER acquired by Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares, son of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli allegedly with money from the accounts of...
When Trump had it right about health care
THE RECENT Republican debacle on health care could prove to be an opportunity. It highlighted, yet again, the complexity of...
Caribbean film to close 2017 film festival
Central American and Caribbean filmmakers are coming into their own, despite the myriad obstacles they face, with a Caribbean film...
OPINION: Panamas immoral lawmakers
Hoyporhoy, La Prensa, Apr. 2 The National Assembly, whose deputies are elected by the people, refuses to listen to the...
MEDIA WATCH: Worlds gloomy Brexit reaction
THIS WEEK saw UK Theresa May present European Council President Donald Tusk with a six-page "divorce" letter triggering Article 50...
Election donations, invitation to theft
A $350.000 cap on private donations for candidates in the 2019 campaign is immoral and an invitation to theft says...
New transmission lines
PLANS FOR the construction of a new 330 km electricity transmission line with a $550 million price tag are moving...
Cosy Ochy deals revealed by Martinelli lawyer
DAVID OCHY, owner of Transcaribe Trading (TCT), whose trucks once blocked delivery of the La Prensa newspaper is back in...
Varela to offer Maduro crisis aid
PANAMA’S President, Juan Carlos Varela, plans to call his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, to help find a solution to the...
Predators destroy protected habitat
THE HABITAT of crustaceans, national and migratory seabirds and the black iguana have been destroyed in a protected mangrove swamp...