Archive for June, 2010

Bob Olsen, age 61, was murdered aboard his yacht yesterday in the Gulf of Chiriqui. His son, Zachary Olsen and Sugey Rodriguez, a young Panamanian woman, survived, but were seriously injured.  Reports indicate that their Antares yacht was attacked shortly after midnight by four assailants and that the yacht had been moored near Bajo...
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The state subsidy and donations that the San Jose de Malambo orphanage in Arraijan receives are not enough to sustain health care programs for its 160 children, household manager Sister Lourdes Reiss told La Prensa. Founded in 1890 by philanthropist Manuel Jaen, the orphanage spends approximately $32,000 a year on food, $18,000 a month for...
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Yesterday, on the second day of his trial in Paris for alleged drug money laundering, Manuel Antonio Noriega gave his version of the events that led to the United States ousting him from power and sending him to jail. The former Panamanian strongman told his life story at trial and described himself as a...
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi landed at Panama’s Howard airport yesterday after nightfall. Vice President Juan Carlos Varela was waiting to walk him down the red carpet flanked by police officers in new blue uniforms. The Italian Prime Minister will meet with President Ricardo Martinelli today and is then off to the Atlantic Coast...
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is urging the Obama White House to pursue pacts with Colombia and Panama as the U.S. moves forward with negotiating a trade agreement with South Korea. “I would hope that the Colombian and Panamanian agreements would be considered either contemporaneously or prior to the consideration of the Korean agreement,”...
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