The closest beach island escape from Panama City, just minutes by Ferry - By Cynthia Mulder
Twelve years ago, Cynthia Mulder and family travelled by Ferry to Taboga Island to explore a location for their planned B&B Hotel Cerrito Tropical. They fell in love. The ferry ride is exciting for the first time, with views of the Panama Canal, and the panorama of Panama City. The Taboga Ferry takes you to Taboga as if in a time machine. The Taboga village is quiet, historic, fishing community, with some nice tropical hikes, good fishing and boating. Taboga Island is often compared by visitors to a tiny village on the Mediterranean.
Cool Location: B&B Cerrito Tropical is located on the edge of a magnificent forested green hill and is hosted by Cynthia Mulder and her team of local employees and cooks (including chef Aristides). Cerrito is at the edge of the village beside the rainforest which offers a nice combination of both land-based activities, nature and sea excursions, not to mention the delicious sea breezes which waft up from the ocean. (more) Click Here To Read The Full Article (1,484 words)






















The former president Mireya Moscoso (1999-2004), did not rule out the possibility of forming a political alliance between the Panameñista party, of which she is a member, and the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). "I have understood there are talks between the president of my party (Juan Carlos Varela) and the PRD. They have had several conversations," said Moscoso on Telemetro Report. However, the Moscoso did not say more about the subject. She only said that if there is an alliance, that she could not vote for the PRD. "I think it would be betraying my principles. I can not speak for others," she said.
Last night there was the seventh homicide so far this May in San Miguelito. The victim paid with his life over a rivalry that originated in the streets of the Torrijos-Carter sector, where at 11:00 pm on Wednesday a police patrol found the body of Rolando Manuel González Skiare, alias “Chipi”, who was 18 years of age. At the crime scene were the same kinds of elements of the previous recorded 60 homicides to date, only in that district. In the middle of a sidewalk and a pool of blood lay a body, and with him, police units guarding the perimeter while waiting for the arrival of the experts of Criminology for their task of collecting evidence. The crime scene investigators, after the removal of the corpse at 1:30 am, confirmed that five bullet holes were visible in the anatomy of Skiare Gonzalez. The wounds were distributed in the front of the head, right chest, left forearm, left thigh and right cheek.

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