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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 
Felix Maduro staff face brighter future
THE JOB FUTURE of 1,200 workers in Panama’s most iconic department store chain, Felix B. Maduro, is looking brighter. Twelve...
Health Minister replaced after soccer jaunt
PRESIDENT Juan Carlos Varela moved quickly this week to replace Minister of Health Francisco Javier Terrientes, as social media and...
Embezzlement suspect gets $500,000 bail
A FORMER CD deputy candidate who had been detained since July last year on embezzlement and money laundering charges has...
Health MInister resigns
IN THE MIDST of an influenza outbreak in which the H1N1 virus has claimed 18 lives Panama’s Health Minister Francisco...
Panama gets IMF thumbs up
THE GROWTH of Panama’s economy in the last decade has been the highest in Latin America and with the expanded...
FBI fingers Martinelli relative
AN INTERPOL red alert for Aaron Mizrachi, brother-in-law of ex-President Ricardo Martinelli - in connection with a corruption investigation focused...
Poverty remains a regional threat
WHILE PANAMA lays claim to one of the world’s leading growth economies, and prepares to lavish $4 million on a...
Canada Day linked to Panama coffee history
The social Scene with Margot Thomas Canadians, and friends from multiple countries will mark Canada Day,(Fete du Canada) Friday July...
WORLD VIEW: Democracy remains resilient
By Jonathan Power IS THERE a democratic recession?, Not an economic one. Rather one of the voting kind. In other words...
Arrest warrant will follow if Martinelli runs
THE EXTRADITION order and accompanying arrest warrant for former president Ricardo Martinelli can be sent to”any nation on earth” if...
FLU death toll rises to 18: situation normal
THE DEATH TOLL from the influenza outbreak climbed to 18 on Monday June 13, with two deaths recorded in Colon...
Highway bandits rob emergency ambulance
HIGHWAY THIEVES stopped and robbed a 911 Emergency Service ambulance carrying an injured patient to hospital shortly after midnight, on...