The Fórum of Journalists has rejected PRD president Benicio Robinson’s $1.5 million civil suit against La Prensa and journalist Mary Triny Zea, warning it could chill investigative journalism in Panama. The case stems from a report on public transport quota acquisitions in Bocas del Toro.
Deputy Medin Jimenez resigned from the Panamenista Party after its lawmakers helped block an Electoral Tribunal plan to split Chiriqui’s circuit 4-3. His exit leaves the party’s bench at seven deputies.
Panama’s National Police seized more than 2,200 packages of illicit substances in a twelve-hour operation, dismantling stash houses and finding drugs hidden in agricultural cargo at port zones. The seizure marks one of the country’s largest recent blows to narco-trafficking.
