Construction workers, environmentalists, university teachers, politicians and representatives from other sectors of civil society filled Cathedral Plaza in protest of the recently approved golazo law, published as Law 30. In front of the Presidency, signs read: Thank you Mr. Martinelli, You and Noriega United Us; Stop the Violence Against Educators; Mining=Death, Panama Without Mines Now;...
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Today, the Second Superior Court sentenced Panamanian boxer Alfonso “Hurricane” Mosquera to 40 months in a prison cell for inflicting deadly injuries to his partner. The authorities came to blame him for the August 5, 2008 beating of Luz Torres, which sent her to Santo Thomas hospital and into a coma before she succumbed...
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The Ministry of Health declared a health alert in response to an outbreak of Equine Encephalitis in Panama. The virus has advance to the area of 24 of December where two infected horses were identified, not far from Tocumen International Airport, La Prensa reports. First detected at the end of last month in the...
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