Panamanian forests attaining allies for conversation
Planting trees is a way of giving life in all its forms, since they have the ability to reduce greenhouse gases through two processes related to the carbon cycle, the fixation or capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. and the reduction of emissions due to deforestation and forest …
Powers that be intend to make it tough on Martinelli
Judge Baloisa Marquínez, of the Second Criminal Case Settlement Court, flatly rejected a request from the defense of former President Ricardo Martinelli, in which he raised respect for his electoral criminal jurisdiction. According to a statement from the Judicial Branch, the document invoking electoral criminal jurisdiction was presented by Alejandro …
Panama looking to become “agricultural hub” of Latin America.
The construction of the Panama-Israel Horticultural Center of Excellence for Agricultural Innovation will turn the country into an agricultural hub for Latin America. This was verified by the Minister of Agricultural Development, Augusto Valderrama, during his tour of the El Ejido experimental station, in Los Santos, headquarters of this project. …
No more “Tweeting”, no more “Tweets”. Musk re-branding TWITTER
A word that has become part of the “ethos” and “pop culture” of the world will be no more. Since the beginning of this year Twitter has gone through monumental changes from the purchase of the app and the imposition of a new CEO to structural changes within the platform. However, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …