Chick Jungle News Today

Panama's next government is considering erecting new checkpoints along a stretch of thick jungle on its southern border that has become a treacherous part of the journey for growing masses of U.S.-bound migrants, the incoming security chief said on Thursday. The additional checkpoints, where deportation orders could be issued to migrants, appear to be part of President-elect Jose Raul Mulino's campaign pledge to close the so-called Darien Gap, even though he has yet to announce a deta...

GROUNDBREAKING. Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. (7th from right) leads the groundbreaking and laying of a capsule for the PHP50.3 million bridge project that will provide better access to residents living in the mountainous barangays of the town of Alimodian. The bridge is funded under the Philippine Rural Development Project of the Department of Agriculture and is expected to be completed in 293 calendar days.(Photo courtesy of the Iloilo Provincial Engineers Office) ILOILO CITY - More than...