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Economy

Better and cheaper housing options available from US to address Low Income in Panama.

These house look like Goddamn tool sheds!!! The National Government has assigned a starting transfer for $3,394,687 million to finish the Nuevo Cartí urbanization project, which aims to accommodate 300 families who currently live in danger of flooding and overcrowding on the Gardí Sugdub island, in Guna Yala. With the …

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Agriculture

Local fisherman will celebrate the temporary lift of Lobster ban.

Fishermen from Bocas del Toro and the Ngäbe-Buglé region will have 51 days, a special period, to catch the Caribbean spiny lobster ( Panulirus argus ), based on Resolution No. 017 of the Aquatic Resources Authority of Panama (Arap). The authorization published in the Official Gazette 29757-A grants a special authorization for the capture …

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Politics

The mud slinging begins: Shots taken at Abrego

The general secretary of the National Land Administration Authority (ANATI), Víctor Vergara, explained that the deputy Yanibel Ábrego did not buy 18.4 hectares in the village of Cirí Grande, Capira district, from the State but from a private citizen. What ANATI did, Vergara added, was the titling process, after the purchase-sale …

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I teased, I’m telling. The END of Red Frog and Haley is at hand. Victims FINALLY see light.

Contributed by JB and Reader Editorial from Red Frog Victims RFB loses Enjoy Group. Staff of criminals appear on CCTV, theft and break ins caught on camera and an infrastructure in tatters, undelivered units, and even poor old Joe stating he will resign “ yet again”, cause it’s too hot …

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Politics

“Realizing goals” demonstrates democracy within Party.

Former President Ricardo Martinelli is not the only presidential candidate for the Realizando Metas (RM) party primaries, which will take place on June 4, 2023, ahead of the May 5, 2024 elections. There are three more figures that will go to this electoral contest within this political group: David Ochy, …

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Church

Expelled Panamanian Priest confirms he was punished by Ortega party.

The Panamanian priest Donaciano Alarcón confirmed that he was expelled from Nicaragua after the police authorities of that country accused him of preaching in favor of the Nicaraguan bishop Rolando Álvarez, who was sentenced to more than 26 years for crimes considered “treason”. “On (Holy) Monday we had the Chrism …

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International Relations

War of Religion takes root in Ortega’s Nicaragua

Colon priest Donaciano Alarcón affirms that he is safe and sound, and that he is awaiting the assignment of a new parish in charge of the Claretian congregation in a Central American country, after he was expelled from Nicaragua on Monday. “Yesterday (Monday, April 3, 2023) in the morning, when …

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"JB"

More coming in on Red Frog: PNO is doing our due diligence

As I teased into the other day, there has been quite a bit of incoming e-mails and chatter about the actions of one “Joe Haley” in particular and his treatment of the owners of Red Frog Beach.  We bowed out after presenting more proof than what got TRUMP indicted, only …

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Politics

Abrego makes it “official” for candidacy. I still feel an Abrego/Martinelli ticket.

Deputy Yanibel Ábrego and leader of the “El Cambio Es Ya” payroll, made official her presidential candidacy of the Cambio Democrático (CD) party, ahead of the elections on May 5, 2024. Accompanied by co-partisans and colleagues, she ran for the primaries of the political collective. Ábrego, who is in a …

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US News of note

Back in the states: TRUMP getting the MARTINELLI treatment

The former president of the United States Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to the 34 charges in relation to irregular payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign, so that she would not make public a sexual relationship between the two. Former US President …

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"JB"

STAY in TOUCH: New update for the “Bocas Brigade” COMING SOON.

Just a little teaser into the fact that it seems people are “FINALLY” getting REAL and ORGANIZED to not allow PNO to be the lone site shining a light into the darkness that is RFB and Bocas.

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Conservation

Coiba National Park: History of fishing in protected area

On several of the beaches of the Coiba National Park, the presence of linear rock structures that long ago were used to catch fish and other marine species stands out. They are fishing corrals with a lot of history, presumably pre-Hispanic, a theory that seeks to confirm the Arqueomar Coiba scientific …

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US News of note

Trump: 1st US President in History to be charged criminally. Common in Latin America

The criminal prosecution of Donald Trump marks the first time that a former president has been charged in the United States, but it is by no means unprecedented in other parts of the world, such as in Latin America, where cases have proliferated. The judicial investigations against Trump (2016-2020) exceed …

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US News of note

America continues to FAIL at protecting it’s children.

A more heartrending and quintessentially American scene is hard to imagine. A human chain of children, hand-in-hand, shepherded by police officers, fled the latest school struck by unfathomable tragedy. On Monday, it was Nashville’s turn to join the roster of cities made notorious by a mass shooting epidemic much of the country seems prepared …

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Human Interest

The abuse of corporations and the rich as the average workday is FAR from average.

Mexicans work 2,124 hours a year, more than Costa Rica (1,913), Russia (1,874) and Japan (1,598). Several countries in the Americas, especially Chile and Colombia, are considering reforming by law the length of the working day, which in some places like Mexico reaches a grueling nine or ten hours a day. Especially …

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Human Interest

Government puts an end to private contracting for Refuse and Cleanup. About time

The Urban and Home Cleaning Authority (AAUD) reported that in the next three months it will manage the largest landfill in the capital city: the one on Cerro Patacón. The decision, according to the company Urbalia, SA, occurs when his contract is still valid until the end of the year and …

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Air Travel

New routes established to promote tourism with US.

With the aim of attracting more tourism to the country, the Panamanian airline will inaugurate flights to Baltimore and Austin in the United States; and Manta in Ecuador. These new destinations will generate a great economic contribution for the country Panama is an ideal and easily accessible destination for all world travelers. It …

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Politics

Let the political sparring begin, it’s gonna be a long year. Abrego vs. Spock

The legal struggle between the president of the Cambio Democrático (CD) party, Rómulo Roux, and the deputy Yanibel Ábrego, who leads the faction “El cambio es ya”, does not stop. A war of legal resources against the regulations and the calendar of primary elections of CD, which includes the issue …

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Conservation

Indigenous monkeys freed from certain death in lab testing in Colombia.

In the mountains of Palmira, in southwestern Colombia, 108 monkeys are undergoing treatment to recover from the mistreatment and cruelty to which they were subjected in the laboratories of a foundation that used them to test a vaccine against malaria. The apes were for years in the Centro de Investigación …

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Darien

Record number of immigrants passed through Darien in 1st Qtr of 2023

So far this year, a record number of 78,585 migrants have crossed the dangerous Darién jungle on foot, the natural border that divides Panama and Colombia, which is five times more than the figures registered in 2022, according to an alert this Saturday by the Ministry of Panamanian Public Security. …

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Chiriqui

Overwhelmed migration leads to movement of people to Chiriqui.

Commissioner Ascanio Ellis, Senior Officer of Migration Border Management, together with the director of the Transit and Land Transportation Authority (ATTT), Carlos Ordóñez, made a tour this Thursday to observe the mobility process of irregular migrants who are in the Temporary Migratory Reception Stations (ETRM), in the province of Darién. …

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Politics

Abrego feels “fox in the henhouse”. Calls for recount of minutes for CD

The internal elections of the Cambio Democrático party to choose the new leaders of the Secretariat for Women and Youth, as well as the conventional ones responsible for choosing the new board of directors, have been full of controversy and denunciations of irregularities since their inception. The last Sunday. While the …

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Darien

DARIEN- flat out one of the most DANGEROUS places on Earth.

https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/darien-gap-feature/ CONTENT NOT written by JB. The Pan-American Highway is an epic 19,000-mile route that starts at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska and terminates at the southernmost end of South America in Ushuaia, Argentina. It’s continuous except for a small section missing along the southern border of Panama, often referred to …

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Politics

Abrego comes out swinging against “Spock”.

The deputy of Cambio Democrático (CD), Yanibel Ábrego, in the company of the deputies of this bench, spoke out for the slowness of the National Scrutiny Board, the counting of the votes, the internal elections of this political group, which It took place last Sunday, March 19.Ábrego assured that his …

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Politics

Martinelli and Abrego intend to wrap this up quickly. This is the winning ticket.

The deputy and current secretary of Cambio Democrático (CD), Yanibel Ábrego, went to the Federico Boyd Bilingual School in Capira, to exercise her right to vote.Ábrego arrived at this voting center in the company of the presidential candidate for Realizando Metas, Ricardo Martinelli. In addition, members of the political groups …

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Darien

Immigration issue in Darien hits Panama in the pocket!

In the first three months alone, almost 66,000 people have crossed the jungle The migratory crisis worsens and may reach record numbers this year. Almost 66,000 people have crossed the jungle in the first three months of 2023 alone, which is why specialists in migration issues consider that it is …

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Human Interest

Former General paints bleak picture of Political landscape……..this we all know.

I was always curious to know the reason why a kepi, one of those worn by members of the then Defense Forces, remained placed at the main entrance of the residence of ex-general Rubén Darío Paredes.It turns out that when Paredes decided to take his “good leap”, already outside the …

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Art/Entertainment

Health problem puts an end to Dragon Boat races in Amador

” Something very cool to see if given the chance,……..shame” In Panama City, on the Amador Causeway, the 2023 Pan American Dragon Boat Club Championship began with the participation of 92 teams. The countries of Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, United States, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago …

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Drugs

Stolen deadly drug Fentanyl hits the streets of Panama

More than 10,000 units of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid similar to morphine but with the difference that it is up to 100 times more powerful, were lost from the deposits of the Social Security Fund (CSS).The drug that is prescribed for patients with severe or chronic pain and for end-of-life …

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Church

Pope celebrates 10 years since appointment.

Pope Francis celebrates a mass today at his residence, Casa Santa Marta, with the cardinals present in Rome Today marks the tenth anniversary of that March 13 when Argentine Jorge Bergoglio, elected pope, leaned out onto the balcony of the façade of Saint Peter’s Basilica and, with a simple: “Brothers …

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