PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- Voters overwhelmingly approved the largest modernization plan in the 92-year history of the Panama Canal on Sunday, backing a multi-billion dollar expansion that will allow the world's largest ships to squeeze th read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Thank you very much. read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - It's sweeps week! Ah yes, those last few days of every month when I shamelessly beg my regular readers to tell their friends and relatives about www.panama-guide.com. read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Welcome aboard to our latest link swapper - Brico Offshore Services. From their website: "BRICO Offshore Services - Is a Panamanian company established since 2000, speci read more »
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On Monday, a ceremony on the outskirts of Panama City marked the beginning of a $5.2 billion Panama Canal expansion project, which aims to double the canal's capacity. Below a YouTube Video covers the ceremony. read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - If you watch this video closely it looks like the design will end up adding four lanes of one-way traffic heading from the fish market toward Paitilla. Also, there will be surface level returns (no bridges) to re read more »
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By Grisel Bethancourt for Panama America - Right now it seems that units of the National Police Directorate of Intelligence and Investigation (DIIP) read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Good news - Panama's President Martin Torrijos is back from vacation. Why should you care? Well, I don't know. The three ex-presidents (Endara, Balladares, and Moscoso) have all lined up to criticize Torrijos fo read more »
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(La Prensa) This is a familiar scene during this time of year in the warm waters of the Pacific ocean, specifically between Panama City and Contadora Island where hundreds of whales gather to mate in the Bay of Panama. Whale watchers, in this case read more »
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By Julian Richardson for The Jamaica Observer - Just under two years after Jamaica and Maersk signed a five-year contract to use the Kingston Container Terminal as a regional trans-shipment hub, the Danish shipping line says it will drop direct cal read more »
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(easier.com) - Los Faros de Panama - “The Lighthouses of Panama” - is a truly unique residential project, due for completion in 2009. One of the tallest buildings in the whole of Latin America (and one of the tallest residential buildings in the wo read more »
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By Juan Manuel Díaz C. for Panama America - A ballistics test conducted by the Judicial Technical Police (PTJ) determined that the gun that took the life of construction worker Osvaldo Lorenzo belongs to a security guard that works for the company N read more »
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By José Otero for La Prensa - Panama's Fourth Superior Prosecutor Tulia Pardo formally charged two employees of the Odebrecht construction company with murder in the death of SUNTRACS activist Osvaldo Lorenzo, and ordered the release of the other t read more »
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August 22 marks the world premier of Fat Katz & Expats, a musical comedy about the quirky characters of Boquete. The play, sponsored by and for the benefit of the Fundacion Amigos de Animales Boquete (FADAB) will run from August 2 read more »
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(cstv.com) - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The United States fell to Panama 75-67 in pool play at the 2007 Pan American Games Thursday. Team USA is 0-2 i read more »
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(AP/iht.com) TALLAHASSEE, Florida: A rare gold coin once thought to be lost was reunited Thursday with the family of Panama's first president, who i read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - The SUNTRACS labor union has called for a nationwide strike to start on Tuesday morning at 7:00 am which will shut down all construction sites being built by their members. In the past they have called for st read more »
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By Wary Bradshaw for Panama-Guide.com - If you are a single women in Panama City on Sunday, what do you do? You take to the streets and go CruisinÂ’! My Fearless-Friend-Who-Drives and I use Sundays as the ideal day to suss out urban locations other read more »
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By Santiago Cumbrera for the Panama America - Fines impsoed by the Municipal Office of Construction on different construction sites for failing to meet safety and security norms are going to fill more of the government coffers. The numbers are a fai read more »
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By Deivis Eliecer Cerrud for the Panama America - Twenty four organized gangs operate in six of the nine areas of the district of San Miguelito. Authorites from the Mayor's office say that these gangs recruit children when they are between 10 and 1 read more »
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