On Monday morning, Kimberly Nicole Grant, a United States citizen, arrived to Panama’s Tocumen International Airport carrying 55 cocaine tablets. She had intended to board a flight to Orlando, Florida, but police officers in the terminal noticed her nervous behavior and found the cocaine strapped to her body and in a little bag she...
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Archive for June 9th, 2010
U.S. Woman Caught With Cocaine at Airport
Motorcyclist Makes Wrong Turn, Ends up in Precipice
Javier Benjamin Beitia, age 23, made a mistake and turned down a dead end street on his motorcycle early Sunday morning. The road led directly into the precipice of the Chico River in the province of Chiriqui. Although he plunged around 5 a.m., he was spotted by 7:30 a.m. and firefighters began rescue efforts....
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Belgian Company Wins Panama Canal Dredging Contract
The Panama Canal authority picked Belgian company Dredging International NV’s $40 million bid to dredge more of the man-made Gatun Lake. Dredging International beat out other companies including China Harbour Engineering Company, Netherlands-based Royal Boskalis Westminster, U.S.-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. and Belgium’s Van Oord Groep NV and Jan de Nul. Bids...
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Panama Reopens Market to Canadian Beef
Panama has lifted restrictions on the import of Canadian breeding cattle and bovine genetics, according to dicovermoosejaw.com. This marks the removal of the last Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (better know as mad-cow) disease-related restrictions on Canada, and follows the signing of the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on May 14th. The agreement will eventually allow all Canadian...
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