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NEW YORK (AP) - Copa Airlines of Panama is ordering four additional Boeing 737-800 aircraft, Copa Holdings and Boeing Co. said late Tuesday The next-generation 737s will be delivered within the next three years. In total, Copa has now orde read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - A friend has asked me to help them sell their three bedroom condominium in Playa Blanca. They bought it new a few years ago, used it as a weekend getaway, and have decided to sell. They are selling the unit completely furnished with everything included. The unit is r read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Last week I received some troubling information from Mike Smith in Bocas del Toro. It seems he has a checking account with the Banco Nacional on Isla Colon which he uses to pay bills and to cover the social security expenses for his employees. Mike, his wife, and a p read more »
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By Magda Maxwell for TVN Noticias - As of this Friday the administration of the Cerro Patacón landfill will pass to the hands of a private company that will begin the process of removing the people who have lived and worked in the dump for years. Jose Domingo Gut read more »
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By K. C. Vijayan Law Correspondent for The Straits Times - A PANAMA-REGISTERED firm that chased a state-owned Serbian company for 15 years through Switzerland and England to get back S$75 million owed to it brought its long-drawn saga to the Singapor read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - I just spoke to my sister in New York. As of 4:00 pm they have already received about 9 inches of snow, and are expecting another four to five hours of steady snow. They should have over a foot by the time it's done. Luckily she took the day off and didn't have to co read more »
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By Yaritza Mojica for the Panama America - They deceive us because we are poor! That is the feeling of humble islanders and villagers who live and work along Panama's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Their primary weaknesses are a combination of igno read more »
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PANAMA CITY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Panama's economy grew by 9.2 percent in the third quarter over the year-ago period, helped by expansion of agriculture, manufacturing and services, the government said on Monday. Between July and September read more »
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By Rocío I. Martins A. for El Siglo - The FARC insurgent was not killed in the shootout with police in Manené. Heavily guarded by a contingent of border guard officers and members of the Direction of Police Investigation, the wounded man wh read more »
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By Luis Carlos Rodríguez for La Critica - Young 9 year-old Joseadis Olivarren was happy, anticipating the arrival of Christmas, but four gang members who broke into her apartment the night before last where she lived on 25th Street in Chorrillo snatched her life with a sh read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Can you tell I'm having fun? Try this - go to speedtest.net, select the server in Atlanta Georgia, and test the speed of your Internet connection. With Cable Onda (spat!) I was getting about 1,500 download and 500 upload, max. With read more »
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Surfside Properties Panama S.A. provides Panama real estate land development, home construction and associated real estate sales on the western coast of the Azuero Peninsula, Veraguas Province. This exquisite shoreline faces the Gulf of Montijo and the Island of Coi read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - I get this one all the time - "Would you please add this e-mail address to your e-mail list. Thanks. Alice" I send out an email broadcast practically every day containing links to the headlines I publish on Panama-Guide. The easiest way to receive those broadcasts i read more »
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By Enrique Arosemena for TVN Noticias - San Francisco once again became the scene of a shootout between the police and delinquents. Two women were rescued just as they were being kidnapped by a youth gang. Only 20 minutes passed after an assault on a construction compan read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - People have been asking - "I know it rains a lot in Panama, and that November is the wettest month of the rainy season, but it seems like we've been getting much more rain that usual." True statement. The heavy rains Panama traditionally experiences during the month read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Received today via email from Forrest Walker in Bocas del Toro: "The situation at the airport no longer resembles the evacuation of the embassy in Saigon. It has calmed down to the normal craziness. Today, a handful of Prensa folks came in from David. The flight to B read more »
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La Estrella - The acute situation in Bocas del Toro and Chiriquí has gotten worse. Normality is still very far away for some inhabitants of Changuinola. These floods are the worst in almost 40 years. One resident of Finca 8 says "I remember the floods of 1970" read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Received this afternoon via email: "For publication if you desire: Somehow, from somewhere, the Bocas town power generation facility received plenty of diesel today. At least five people in town reported this to me, so I have to believe it now. Lights are on, refrige read more »
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Panama, 26 nov (PL) Panama welcomed today the ruling of the World Trade Organization (WTO) condemning the European Union banano regime, considered contrary to the interests of fruit exporters. According to Gisela Alvarez de Porras, Panama Mini read more »
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