Wednesday afternoon, a cattle truck flipped over near Vacamonte, west of Panama City, leaving four cattle dead and the others running wild. It was not known at the time of publication whether the surviving cattle were recaptured, only that the owner must removed the deceased cattle from the road. The driver was unharmed. In...
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Archive for October 27th, 2010
Four Cattle Die in Truck Accident
Confessed Lawyer Killers Face Jury
A Panama jury of seven women and one man will decide the fate of Colombian citizens Melany Narvaez and Blanca Donado. The two women’s alleged crime: Stabbing former Vice President of the National Bar Association Juan Carlos Dudley 155 times with a small utility knife on December 12, 2007. Defense attorneys for the accused...
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Panama Appears to be Corrupt
Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index and Panama, it seems, is still corrupt. Out of a possible ranking of 178, Panama ranked 73rd with an index of 3.6 on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt), up from a slightly more corrup 3.4 ranking last year. Panama tied with Bulgaria,...
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