“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Panama Journal on Jul 26th, 2008
Here is another email I received related to crime in Boquete
From……: jeff brown
Email…..:
Url…….:
Just a question, where can one post a blog, in the Boquete area. My wife and I were at The Panamonte Inn, Sunday night, July 13th, and someone shot out our driver side back window. We wondered if anyone else who was there [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jun 25th, 2008
It had been implied HERE and HERE that tourists have recently undergone a form of harassment by uniformed officers checking passports and visas of clients in some restaurants in Boquete. They even were escorting those, that did not have cedulas/pensionado cards or passports on them, to their hotels to verify that they were here legally.
A [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on May 3rd, 2008
The Panama Guide posted a more complete description of the home invasion in Volcan. Read it HERE.
Posted in Panama Journal on Apr 25th, 2008
My house was robbed while I slept. A house guest slept in another
bedroom. There are some real professionals working the gringo houses.
Since the robbers took half my stuff, I’m gonna sell the rest.
Furniture and appliances. Bob Hatting new number 6-809-4510.
Posted in Panama Journal on Apr 25th, 2008
Our friend in Bugaba was robbed, beaten nearly to death and tortured for three hours (by two masked men) for the combination to his safe (which he was of course willing to give, but explaining how to work a combination lock with a language barrier is nearly impossible). He was tied up, kicked and slashed [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Feb 2nd, 2008
I stopped in a local panderia this morning and happened to pick up a current issue of the Bajareque Times. It had two articles on the crime wave that is increasing in Chiriquí. The first article was entitled, “Action Wanted To Control Crime Wave”. I couldn’t find it in the web version of Bajareque [...]
Posted in Chiriquí Neighborhood Watch on Oct 3rd, 2007
There have been a couple things, that I have seen lately on the Yahoo Groups, that have caused me to think that it would be worth while adding a new category for posts. I am going to call it “Chiriquí Neighborhood Watch”. To me, Chiriquí is one large neighborhood, and it is our best interest [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Aug 22nd, 2007
While I don´t have all the details, there is a lesson to be learned from a recent incident that has happened in David. A young boy, about 14, had been going around a neighborhood selling trash bags. Apparently, he would also ask if he could have a drink and this would give him the [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on May 12th, 2007
The following was posted on one of the Yahoo Groups boards.
Help
On May 3 and 5 three different houses got robbed in Caldera during the
big anniversary party. There were 5 saddles taken; one of the saddles was expensive, the color was a light brown almost with yellow tint, there is no leather tooling, there are black [...]
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