Delegates from the Central American Integration System (SICA) countries are busy this week in Bonn, Germany pushing for a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere by 2012. Leslie Marin, Director of Climate Change for Panama’s National Environmental Authority presented the documented request at the May 31 to June 9 United Nations Framework...
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Three agents of the Judicial Investigation Department are being held for allegedly stealing six nine millimeter pistols from the institution’s armory. Authorities suspect that the agents intended to sell the weapons to gangs as one of the nine millimeters has already been decommissioned from an El Chorillo gang member. This is the second time...
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Panama has officially asked France to extradite Manuel Noriega for the 1989 murder of opponent Hugo Spadafora, a crime for which the former Panamanian dictator was convicted in absentia to 20 years in prison in 1993. He is also convicted of two other murders, embezzlement and corruption in Panama and is scheduled to go...
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