Panama News

Boquete is a town at the base of the Volcans mountains about a 6-8 hour drive from Panama City and 30-45 minute drive from David.

Lt. Col. John Sidney Hutchins, 83, died Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, in a San Antonio hospital.

Dr. Lawrence Lavine is a Crystal Lake anesthesiologist who is going on a mission trip to Haiti.

Bocas del Toro is located on a chain of islands on the north side of Panama. There are flights from the mainland on Aeroperlas and Air Panama, with a 50 minute flight from Panama City.

Calls to clarify Lord Ashcroft's position after revelation that he provided flights for William Hague's visit to Havana last year, and then accompanied him to top-level meetings It was a scene that Graham Greene would surely have enjoyed: our men in Havana, a billionaire peer and a top Tory politician, sipping drinks on a 150ft yacht in the ...

Here are mapsof the several Costa Rica / Panama earthquakes have struck in the past week, all significant and the last the largest with a 5.0 magnitude.

Frequent telluric movements in Costa Rica since last Saturday were the cause of the clash of Cocos and Nazca plates and the micro-plate Panama in the area around Punta Burica, experts reported on Tuesday.

Otton Solis, the presidential candidate for the Partido Accion Cuidadan sent a letter on Monday to the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones , explaining that he received a strange phone call from a number originating in Panama, offering him financial help for his struggling campaign.

A moderate earthquake shook the ground in some 30 kilometres southeast of Golfito in Costa Rica's southern zone, west of David, Panama.

With real estate prices ranging from less than $20,000 for zoned residential lots, to $120,000 for constructed homes and estates, the Panama mountain community of Cerro Azul offers affordable options for real estate investors seeking a quiet and peaceful nature retreat.

The Coast Guard today rescued a 34-year-old man with an eye injury aboard a vehicle transport vessel about 100 miles west of Kauai.

Stratus Building Solutions has announced the company's expansion into Central America with the award of a new Master Franchise in the Republic of Panama, according to a press release .

Latin America is an increasingly popular holiday destination for travellers. The thing is, most of us head there knowing little in the way of Spanish, unless you count si, no and gracias.

Alex Humphrey, a charity worker, has been missing in Panama since August 14 last year.

Keep away from smoking.. it's hazardous! Credit: Michal Zacharzewski © sxc.hu/mzacha Holidays are such an important part of each countries tradition along with supporting its culture.

It's a new day in Central America. The impending $5.5-billion U.S. expansion of the hydraulic eighth wonder of the world, the Panama Canal, is expected to have a major impact on global trade in what has steadily become a bustling business hub of the Americas.

Here in Chitre to break up the journey across Panama, so within daily striking distance.

Following are highlights of the activities of Pope Benedict XVI and the Holy See for the months of September through December 2009.

Operation Just Cause began a few days before Christmas. Shortly after midnight on December 20, 1989, the first convoy of trucks of about 24,000 invading US troops wound their way through Panama City.

SuperClubs has a new Breezes Resort & Spa, Santa, located in Clara Province, Panama.