A few days ago, Mayor of Las Tablas Eudocio Perez urged the Government to refurbish the town’s Rufina Alfaro Park, calling its current deteriorated state a monument to laziness. The park is actually a monument to Panamanian patriot Rufina Alfaro, a countrywoman from the province of Los Santos and a somewhat mythically decisive figure in...
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Three people, including a national policeman, were executed early Saturday on a road leading to a private farm in La Chorrera in Panama West. The victims were identified as 34-year-0ld police officer Edwin Manuel Gamboa, 48-year-old Colombian Gunner Posso Hurtado and 31-year-old Erick Escobar Chala. All were shot multiple times in the head with...
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Five days of intense rain in the Chiriqui Province left homes and crops submerged, rivers overflowing, bridges washed out and thousands of people affected by natural disaster. Arturo Alvarado, General Director of the National Civil Protection Service, said that 272 houses were underwater and that 1,160 people have been evacuated to the seven available...
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President Ricardo Martinelli wants to do away with the Comptroller General of the Republic’s practice of spending screening in the appropriation of public funds. “Previous or posterior control is irrelevant because if there are corrupt officials, they will steal sooner or later,” he justified. The president stressed that no one can answer for the...
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On Tuesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reviewed the worrying state of domestic violence in Panama and has urged the country to promote measures to ensure gender equality, stop domestic violence and improve conditions for refugees. Statistics from Panama’s Public Defendor’s Office show that the number of reported femicides nearly doubled from...
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