Showpro Panama confirms that Ozzy Osbourne, also known as the Godfather of Heavy Metal and the Prince of Darkness, will perform in Panama on April 19, 2011. The concert is part of a 18-month promotional world tour for his latest album “Scream” and its latest single “Life Won’t Wait.” Born in Birmingham, England, the...
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National Immigration Service agents arrested Nicholas Joseph Lucanegro at Paso Canoas in Chiriqui, an area Panama’s Minister of Homeland Security calls Little Tijuana. According to prisonpost.com, a prison pen pal site, 57-year-old Lucanegro, a Virgo, is white with brown hair and green eyes. Originally from New Jersey, he was convicted in Florida in October 2008...
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President Ricardo Martinelli declared tomorrow, Friday, a day of national emergency to bring aid to those communities affected by the recent flooding and landslides in Panama. The heavy rains left 10 people dead and 4,097 affected, damaging 962 houses of which 312 were destroyed, according to Director of the Civil Protection System Arturo Alvarado,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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