Panama News

If you're planning an all American staycation this weekend, there's still plenty to do in the American spirit of staying thrifty.

Businessman Ricardo Martinelli was sworn in as Panama's new president on Wednesday, promising to start the biggest job-creation push ever in the country.

SONIC REDUCER Roberto Gyemant, a.k.a. DJ Beto, doesn't need to tell you how extra-zesty Panamanian music is: all he has to do is play "Juck Juck Pt.

George Washington Goethals was born to Flemish immigrants in Brooklyn on June 29, 1858.

Eddie Peltier Garcia and his cousin, Rayden Hoopai, passed through the town of Changuinola, Bocas de Toro, Panama, on the way to Panama City after spending time in Costa Rica.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ordered the government of Panama to suspend all work on a hydroelectric dam that threatens the homeland of the Ngobe Indians of western Panama.

One of the cool new offerings spied a few weeks ago at the AEA 2009 Convention were a pair of new Transponders being repped by Southeast Aerospace.

After two years of brutal government repression and destruction of their homeland, the Ngobe Indians of western Panama won a major victory yesterday as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called on Panama to suspend all work on a hydroelectric dam that threatens the Ngobe homeland.

Four Academy cadets saved three Panamanians from drowning June 7, while on a foreign immersion trip to Central America.

1 on 1 services make TLRPA drug rehab program the #1 choice for most! For family and friends looking on as an addict slowly kills themselves or another innocent person; frustration, fear and anger permeate the bystander.

Visit www.thelastresortpa.com or call 1-866-501-3366 The Last Resort Panama is a drug treatment center located in David that provides residential services in a resort-like setting.

Tips for maximizing your visit to Bocas del Toro, a group of islands on Panama's Carribean coast.

The government will close down five underutilized overseas offices in the coming months, in an effort to put the country's diplomatic resources to better use, Minister of Foreign Affairs Francisco H.L. Ou said Saturday.

Panamian culture is facing the danger of nine native languages disappearing, because only a few people use them to communicate.

The hospital ship USNS Comfort transits the Panama Canal at the Miraflores locks.

Americans consume some 400 million cups of coffee every day, and though we are no Seattle, Bostonians are serious about their joe.

Panama, Jun 3 The government transition process for the change of administration by president-elect Ricardo Martinelli in Panama, to take place on July 1st, is spreading to the provinces, with the appointment of the future governors.

During the meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 29, 2009, representatives from the Bahamas, the Republic of Liberia, the Republic of Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Panama signed the New York Declaration, a commitment to best management practices to avoid, deter ...

Buddha-Bar will mark the construction launch of Buddha-Bar Hotel & Spa Panama next month by developer The Revat Group.

Petroterminal will install two of Flow-Quip's 24-inch, ball-type flow control valves on the reverse flow and upgrade of its 81-mile pipeline, which moves up to 860,000 barrels daily from the Caribbean to the Pacific.