It took Rafael Madrid, a retired San Miguelito resident, 12 hours to count each sheet of the supposedly 1,000-sheet toilet paper roll. And, as he expected, the roll had less sheets than advertised by the manufacturer. He immediately reported his findings to Panama’s Consumer Protection and Antitrust Authority which duly investigated. Its findings: Seven...
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Mario Enrique Patiño Fuentes, a.k.a. Cholo Tieso, was shot more than 28 times at close range in front of his Valle Dorado home in La Chorrera Saturday night. The infamous Panamanian gang leader was released from the La Joyita jail on January 12, 2010 where he was doing time for robbery. He had also been...
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The Christ Episcopal Church will host “Saving Santiago,” a fundraising event with Latino flair, at 6 p.m. on June 12 to provide ongoing support for parishes in the poverty-stricken areas of Panama, New Jersey’s Daily Record reports. Among the projects are building a new church in Santiago and repairing a leaking roof on the...
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Fernando Berguido, President of the La Prensa Corporation and Director of the La Prensa Panamanian daily newspaper, will be going to Harvard next year as a Neiman Journalism Fellow. He joins 24 other fellows from the United States, Canada, France, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Russia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Iran, Afghanistan, Romania and South Africa....
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Some 8,026 square kilometers, or 27 percent, of Panama’s 28,157 square-mile national territory is degraded. There are four critical zones: Cerro Punta in Chiriqui where agrochemicals are used, the Veraguas savannah, the Arco Seco on the Azuero Peninsula and the Ngöbe Bugle shire. More than a half a million people live in these zones, many...
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