Human-interest stories from Panama: the people, communities and everyday experiences behind the news.
PANAMA, October 17, 2026 — A handmade object can be a doorway into a place, but only when visitors understand that it represents skill, time and cultural knowledge. Panama’s handicrafts offer that opportunity, from woven and carved work to textiles and pieces connected with regional traditions. Tourism Panama highlights handicrafts as objects made with history…
CHITRÉ, HERRERA, October 16, 2026 — Regional museums offer something a guidebook summary cannot: a chance to encounter a place through the people who have chosen to preserve and interpret its stories. In Chitré, the Museo Fabio Rodríguez Herrera is one such cultural stop. Tourism Panama lists the museum as a local heritage attraction in…
PANAMA CITY, October 14, 2026 — Panama City is preparing for Fiesta Alrededor del Mundo 2026, a multicultural gathering scheduled for October 18 at the Megapolis Convention Center. The event is being presented as a day of food, music, folklore, art and traditions from more than 40 countries, with proceeds intended for social projects in…
Por James “JB” Bryson A Bocas del Toro nunca le han faltado historias de tierra. Lo que sí le ha faltado, durante muchísimo tiempo, es una historia que se quede dentro de una sola finca, una sola notaría y un solo juzgado en silencio. El expediente que ahora reposa en la Fiscalía —y el que…
OP ED: “JB” Bocas del Toro has never lacked stories of land. What it has lacked, for a very long time, is a history that remains within a single farm, a single notary’s office and a single court in silence. The file that now rests in the Prosecutor’s Office – and the one that Anticorruption…
Opinión editorial: “JB” Bryson Esta semana hablé por teléfono con un maestro jubilado y exdirigente del sindicato de lancheros de Bocas del Toro, un caballero llamado Dario Van Horne.No es un vocero. No es un abogado leyendo un libreto. Es un hombre cuya familia ha tenido cinco hectáreas de frente de playa en el Caribe…
Editorial OP-ED- “JB” Bryson This week I got on the phone with a retired teacher and former leader of the Bocas del Toro boatmen’s union, a gentleman named Dario Van Horne.He is not a spokesman. He is not a lawyer reading a script. He is a man whose family has held five hectares of Caribbean…
A July 15 Inter-American Development Bank report says Panama is implementing care assessments aimed at improving equitable access to services.
“JB”- Money goes IN, but it NEVER comes OUT. Panama shoots itself in the foot when REAL business tries to pull the region out of the Jurassic Era, and skulldyggery and back handed system keeps it in the weeds. Now we have a few scumbags on the LAM, and sh*t jumps up a noth. Document…
“JB:”- When a great TV show becomes a NEW reality program LAST WEEK. A riot broke out at the La Joyita penitentiary in Pacora on the evening of June 1 when authorities attempted to transfer or redistribute high-profile inmates, including leaders of several pavilions. A group of around 40 inmates knocked down pavilion doors, reached…
