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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 
New migrant crisis building on Costa Rica border
A NEW MIGRATION problem is developing on Panama’s border with Costa Rica, this time involving Venezuelans. Between 77 and 150migrants ...
Mossack Fonseca Defense lawyers clash
LAWYERS for Maria Mercedes Riaño, the Mossack Fonseca representative in Brazil, accused of money laundering, insist that their client had...
Trump Climate Retreat China Opportunity
If the U.S withdraws from the climate arena, China could seize the opportunity to fill the vacuum and, in turn,...
CD media bill door to big brother propaganda
BILL 465, which seeks to force the media to publish “educational, cultural and electoral” messages opens the door to political...
Day of reflection to mark bus deaths
CHILDREN returning to school on Monday Mar. 6, following the summer break, found flags flying at half mast and before...
A Shameful and Bloody Transport History
THE TRAGIC accident on Sunday March 5, which claimed 18 lives was the fourth major disaster in Panama’s, bloody transportation history....
Boating alert extended 72 hours
THE PANAMA Maritime Authority (AMP) announced Sunday, March 5 that the cautionary warning directed to small craft and boats with...
18 dead 37 injured as bus plunges into river
EIGHTEEN PEOPLE died and 37 were injured, many seriously when a bus returning from Bocas del Toro to Panama plunged from a...
LAUNDERING PROBE: Decision makers at law firm knew source of money – Lawyer
A TEAM of 13 decision makers at Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca (MF) knew the source of clients’ money and...
Wind and waves alert for both coasts
A BEACH was closed, entry to a national park forbidden, and boats were banned from mooring to buoys in some...
MEDIA WATCH: A cop delivers immigration sermon
By Stephen Cooper in the Trinidad Express STANDING stiffly in overly-starched police blues it was obvious, even before he admitted...
Odebrecht paid FARC protection money
CONSTRUCTION giant Odebrecht reeling from its involvement in Brazil’s Petrobras scandal and under investigation in Panama and countries across...