Usually there is Panamanian music here, but this is a British thing that Panamanians should take to heart.
The Panama News blog links, January 16, 2016
The Maritime Executive, Criminal complaint filed in Panama Canal dispute
El País, Sacyr eleva los sobrecostes del Canal de Panamá a €3.220 millones
JOC, Hapag-Lloyd won’t upsize PanCanal tonnage this year
Seatrade, Panama moves to adopt two maritime treaties
Ship & Bunker, New record low for Baltic Dry Index
Liu & Lu, Navigating China’s New Silk Road
Mongabay, New indigenous challenge to Nicaragua Canal
Bloomberg, Japan to finance $2 billion monorail across the Panama Canal
The National, Emirates delays world’s longest flight from Dubai to Panama
ESPN, Panama and Haiti qualify for Copa Centenario
Bloomberg, Renewal in Panama coming at a high cost
Fresh Plaza, Watermelons from Panama
IntraFish, Ocean shrimp out of season starting February 1
La Estrella, La marihuana es la droga más decomisada en el 2016
Mundiario, La República Saharaui y Panamá restablecen relaciones
All Africa, Saharawi ambassador received at Panama’s National Assembly
The Tico Times, Panama police convicted of burning teens alive in cell
Telemetro, Condenas hasta de 46 años por muerte de menores quemados
Video, What they did
Beluche, Que se castigue ahora a los autores intelectuales
BBC, First stranded Cubans reach the USA
Prensa Latina, Maniobra gobierno de Puerto Rico para mantener operaciones
WOLA, Colombia set to promote officers linked to ‘false positives’ scandal
BBC, Tsai Ing-wen elected Taiwan’s first female president
NBC, Obama won’t endorse a Democratic primary candidate
Doctors Without Borders, Hospital bombed in northern Yemen
AP, Pregnant women advised to avoid Panama and other places with Zika virus
Mogabay, Is eco-certification the solution to forest destruction?
Video, Howler monkeys on Isla Colon
Warren, The secret sex lives of crop plants
Science, Vaginas shaped evolutionary history
Susan the Bruce, Nipples and nonsense
Time, Hillary Clinton on running and governing as a woman
The Hill, Chelsea Clinton: Sanders wants to scrap ObamaCare
Dayen, Hillary Clinton whiffs on reforming Wall Street’s ratings agencies
Hamilton, How Bernie Sanders wins
Weisbrot, Democratic primary contest gets real
Brin, As the campaigns heat up…
Chittister, The worst of religious sins
Boff, The 2015 annus nefastus does not destroy hope for an annus propicius
Eyes on Trade, Falsely sweet story exemplifies TPP sales job
Mitchell, The Pink Tide recedes
Beinstein, Argentina swings between crisis and mafia dictatorship
Paterson, The missing pages of Merida
Simpson, Afrontando la crisis del agua
Sagel, El país que estamos destruyendo
Blades: Danilo, Patricia y el Festival de Jazz de Panamá
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