Archive for December 8th, 2010

Panama Canal Closed Due to Rain

December 8, 2010
By en.di.

The Panama Canal Authority has temporarily suspended traffic through the interoceanic waterway due to heavy rains. Both the Gatun and Alajuela lakes have reached the highest water levels ever recorded, and the canal authority feared that transit could be affected by the currents of the Chagres River. “We are taking steps to normalize the...
Read more »

Posted in Not Easy Being Green | 4 Comments »

Another Dead in Little Tijuana

December 8, 2010
By st.di.
Another Dead in Little Tijuana

Panamanian Demetrio Vasquez Gamboa’s body was found outside a bar on the border between Panama and Costa Rica on Tuesday. He had been fatally shot three times, La Prensa reports. This is the third homicide in the Paso Canoa area known for drug and contraband trafficking. Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation unit is looking into the...
Read more »

Posted in Abroad, The Streets | 1 Comment »

Harvard Evaluates Condition of Panama’s Prison System

December 8, 2010
By in.di.

Through an academic assessment of Panama’s prison system, the International Human Rights Clinic of the Faculty of Law at Harvard University found that overcrowding, corruption, violence and squalor persist. “We consider the recommendations the International Clinic will make essential to improving the prison system crisis,” said clinic director James Cavallaro, who also noted that there...
Read more »

Posted in Sleeping Out | 1 Comment »

Recent Comments

 

December 2010
M T W T F S S
« Nov    
  1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31