Tag: Panama

• Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 08:01 UTC

  Panamanian protesters to stay in the streets until their demands are met

  

  Thousands of Panamanians took to the streets over the past few days to protest against the seemingly unstoppable inflation and Government corruption, while measures offered by the administration of President Laurentino Cortizo regarding the price of fuel and food were deemed insufficient.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 10:06 UTC

  Latin American and Caribbean parliament call for Falklands' sovereignty talks with UK

  

  The Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, (Parlatino) met this week in Panama and called on the international community to support Argentina's request for a resumption of Falkland/Malvinas Islands sovereignty talks with the UK. The issue addressed was the “Malvinas Question, a Latin American cause”.

• Monday, August 2nd 2021 - 07:46 UTC

  Duque says Colombia willing to sort out together with Panama the crisis of migrants trying to reach the US or Canada

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque has called on Panama's authorities to find a negotiated solution to the crisis of migrants stranded at the border on their way to the United States.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Panama sets new measures for South American air travelers

  

  Travellers arriving by aeroplane in Panama having stayed in South America for 15 days or more will have to follow the new anti-covid-19 protocols in force since Monday, health and immigration authorities announced.

• Thursday, March 25th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Severe impact on world commerce: traffic at Suez Canal blocked as megaship runs aground

  

  A Panama-flagged cargo ship which ranks among the largest ever built, ran aground sideways late Tuesday in the Suez Canal, hindering all traffic in either direction.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 07:11 UTC

  FOX News Media streaming service available this week in Chile, Panama and Portugal

  FOX News Media’s international streaming service, will be made available in Chile, Panama and Portugal starting December 17th. The launch further expands the platform’s distribution to 30 countries worldwide, surpassing FOX News Media’s original goal of reaching 20 countries by year-end.

• Monday, October 19th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Panama offers arriving travelers Covid-19 tests in an effort to resume economic activity

  

  Panama is the latest country to offer travelers a COVID-19 test when they arrive at its main airport, a little less than a week after resuming international flights following a seven-month suspension due to the pandemic.

• Thursday, February 20th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Cayman Islands, Panama, Palau and Seychelles in the EU tax havens blacklist

  

  The European Union has added the Cayman Islands, a UK overseas territory, to its tax havens blacklist. It joins Oman, Fiji and Vanuatu, which have also been accused of failing to crack down on tax abuse.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:25 UTC

  Panama begins exhuming a mass grave from the 1989 invasion by the US

  

  Authorities in Panama on Monday began exhuming a mass grave containing the remains of unknown civilians killed during the 1989 US invasion of the Central American country. The move follows a decades-long effort by families of missing people to identify remains buried in a common grave in the capital's Jardin de Paz cemetery.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Sect satanic ritual kills and tortures indigenous members in the Panama jungle

  

  Seven people were killed in a bizarre religious ritual in a jungle community in Panama, in which indigenous residents were rounded up by about 10 lay preachers and tortured, beaten, burned and hacked with machetes to make them “repent their sins”, the authorities said on Thursday.