Two tourists were badly injured this afternoon as they headed to their beach hotel near Playa Blanca in Rio Hato, west of Panama City. Two hooded assailants shot the 66 year-old U.S. man and 56 year-old Russian woman in the head, arm and back. The tourist victims were first taken to Aquilino Tejeira hospital in...
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Archive for October, 2009
Beach Tourists Shot by Masked Men on Horseback
U.S. Troops Sign-in to Neighboring Colombia
Colombia and the United States have signed an agreement to allow the U.S. military to use seven of its bases over the next 10 years. Colombia shares borders with Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Venezuela. Several Latin American countries are violently opposed to today’s agreement, particularly allies Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia, who see this as part...
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Books: About Panama
A list of reading about Panama, most about the Canal, Manuel Noriega and the U.S. Invasion, and titles making good use of the colon. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 - Author: David McCullough Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega – Author: Frederick Kempe Panama Canal By...
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President Is Paid His One Dollar
President Ricardo Martinelli has transparently published his $1 check on the National Government’s website. The Panamanian multi-millionaire president donates the rest of his $7,000 ($5,421 after taxes) monthly salary to charity. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, whose net worth is $16 billion, popularized symbolic renumeration by accepting $1 of his annual $195,000...
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Government Launches Second Phase of Bay Clean Up
The government initiated the second phase of the Panama Bay clean-up project today which includes building a sewage interceptor system and a treatment plant in a network that will stretch from Casco Viejo to Tocumen Airport. For decades, Panama has been depositing 140 million gallons of untreated wastewater daily into the bay which smells...
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