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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 
Chamber of Commerce joins Interpol campaign
PANAMA’S Chamber of Commerce, and the national police have signed onto an Interpol initiative to increase awareness of organized crime....
Battle lines drawn on sex education
WITH OVER 1000, child teen pregnancies a month and a dramatic increase in sexually transmitted diseases, 15 civil organizations,...
Crackdown on tax dodgers boosts revenue.
IMPROVEMENTS in tax collection and a crackdown on tax evasion has boosted government tax revenue well above the budgeted amount...
WORLD VIEW: The City That Shrinks Poverty
MEGA CITIES get all the attention but as world leaders gather in Singapore to explore urban issues, they ought to...
Country jail moves for whistle blower
TWO DIFFERENT anti-corruption prosecutors have called for “country prison”(banned from leaving the country)) Giacomo Tamburrelli r former director of the...
Flu cases falling as death toll reaches 52.
THE A (H1N1) influenza death toll has risen to 52 and 297 people are still hospitalized, many of them in...
Martinelli losing grip on CD Party
THE CAMBIO DEMOCRATICO (CD) Party, founded, funded, and until recently ruled by ex-president Ricardo Martinelli, to further his political ambitions,...
OFF THE CUFF Martinelli lawyers reject unappealable decision
OFF THE CUFF Martinelli lawyers reject unappealable decision THE REJECTION by Panama’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has of two requests...
Wind lifts roofs in Taboga,
Wind lifts roofs in Taboga, STRONG WINDS damaged at least six home on the island of flowers, Taboga, in the...
WORLD VIEW: Bush and Blair war criminals?
By Jonathan Power THE CRIME of aggression ("planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression”) was described by...
Nothing political in rejection of asylum plea
"There is absolutely nothing political" in the refusal of Colombia to grant political asylum to Panamanian fugitive, Mayer Mizrachi, says...
Martinelli appeals “flatly rejected”
AS FORMER PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli and his battery of lawyers twist and turn to find ways to block the runaway...