As a means to promote healthy competition between primary schools, the Presidency will hold a competition for students to name three new baby herons that arrived to the presidential palace. The students will have from July 1 to July 30 to name the birds. President Martinelli told the children, grades 1 to 5, that...
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Pacifico Castrellon returned home to Panama today after serving a 15-year sentence for terrorism in Peru. In 1996, Castrellon, a Panamanian painter, was convicted of collaborating with the Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement’s 1995 thwarted attack on the Peruvian Congress. The plan was allegedly for the MRTA to invade the Congress building, kidnap the...
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Panama celebrates its 4th annual Music Festival with jazz, urban, tropical, world and electronic musical performances this weekend. The celebration starts with an inauguration in the National Theater tonight and continues on Saturday with music throughout Casco Antiguo. Car access to the neighborhood is restricted from noon onwards to non-residents but parking is available...
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Actor Nicolas Cage will be in Panama next week as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. The actor will visit the United Nations Regional Office on Drugs and Crime, the Center of Excellence and the Global Container Control Program, as well as reportedly stopping by for a photo with Vice President and Minister...
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