The Streets

At 15.8 percent, Panama City’s Betania neighborhood has the highest levels of dengue infestation in all of Panama. Health authorities will intensify fumigation efforts and are calling on the community to eliminate breeding pools where the Aedes Aegytpi mosquitos that transmit the diesease like to procreate. The Juan Diaz neighborhood ranked second with 9.1...
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Construction workers, environmentalists, university teachers, politicians and representatives from other sectors of civil society filled Cathedral Plaza in protest of the recently approved golazo law, published as Law 30. In front of the Presidency, signs read:  Thank you Mr. Martinelli, You and Noriega United Us; Stop the Violence Against Educators; Mining=Death, Panama Without Mines Now;...
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Three hooded assailants broke into the Los Santos home of 81-year-old Lorenza Ardinez early Sunday morning. According to Ardinez, two men and a woman arrived with a firearm, knocked in the back door and bound both her and her employee’s hands and feet.  They stole more than $1,500 in jewelry and cash. Ardinez, who says...
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Police in coordination with anti-narcotics officials seized over $3 million today in Punta Pacifica. The millions were gathered during a raid on a Mystic Park apartment, La Prensa reports.  Five Colombians, between the ages of 20 and 40, were also detained in the process as well as a Chevrolet Aveo, a Hyundai Santa Fe...
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Sahadeo Roopnarine, a 34-year-old businessman from French Guiana, was on his way to the Free Trade Zone in Colon this morning when thieves robbed him of approximately $53,000. Three men in a Honda 4×4 intercepted the tourism taxi van in which Roopnarine was traveling and threatened him at gunpoint near the Armando Dely Valdes...
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