Archive for December, 2010

Colombian national Blanca Donado became the first woman to receive Panama’s new maximum prison sentence of 30 years late Friday night. Donado was convicted  of the December 13, 2007 murder of lawyer Juan Carlos Dudley. Donado’s accomplice, Melanie Narvaez, also Colombian, was sentenced to 28 years in prison. Panama’s revised penal code, published on...
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Chance, the movie from Panamanian director Abner Benaim, is in the running for the Best Spanish-language foreign film at the 2011 Goya Awards, the Spanish equivalent of the U.S. Oscars. “It’s a good feeling to be pre qualified for the Goya,” Benaim told The Panama Digest from New York City, where the film is...
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Panamanian jazz pianist Danilo Perez has received a 2011 Grammy Award nomination in the Best Instrumental Jazz Album Category for Providencia. “This record is based on the idea that whatever we do has an impact in the universe,” Pérez says. “The word ‘providence,’ for me, means standing up for the future of the next...
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The San Jose de Malambo Orphanage has received a $20,000 donation from Minera Panama just in time for the holidays. “Minera Panama’s donation will allow Malambo’s HIV-positive orphans to receive the medical care and nutritional supplements they need to help them survive and thrive,” said orphanage director Sister Lourdes Reiss. The Malambo Orphanage, currently home...
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In January, Panama’s Public Services Authority will begin burying the visually unattractive electric cables in Panama City’s banking district. This first phase will cost $19.5 million and will be followed by $12 million wire concealment in the Colon Free Zone and $5 million each for the cities of David and Santiago. The authority also...
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