Less than one hundred of Panama’s 350 to 400 snake species are venomous, but they have killed 203 people in the Province of Cocle so far this year. Of the 203 fatal snake bite victims, 117 were men and 86 were women, according to the city of Penonome’s Aquilino Tejeira Hospital statistics. Most bites...
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La Chorrera prison’s sewage system collapsed earlier this week, its wastewater runoff affecting prison visitors and nearby residents. Most of the sewage runs into the area where inmate relatives wait in line to deliver food and medicine to prisoners. Neighbors were forced into action and opened a trench to divert the course of wastewater...
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International animal protection associations are insisting that three African lions, currently held at the La Chorrera Zoo, be relocated. The lions share an area of 4,305 square feet, almost 11,000 square feet less than the recommended roaming room for the three felines. Also of concern are the sanitary conditions and how the cages are...
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The severed foot found behind the Union Club last week belonged to 18-year-old Manuel Gonzalez Quijada. His neighbors from Sector 3 of the 24th of December neighborhood say Gonzalez Quijada was quiet and reserved. He studied law and political science and the University of Panama and worked the 6 p.m. to midnight shift at...
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Hiroko Ramon Lay Castillo, age 38, was arrested on Friday in Juan Diaz, accused of attacking five women and one minor. According to the National Police, Lay drove a yellow car, posing as a taxi driver while making the rounds of Panama City’s universities to pick up female fares. He would then drive his...
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