2021 in Panama

The following lists events in the year 2021 in Panama.

Incumbents

• President: Laurentino Cortizo
• Vice President: José Gabriel Carrizo

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Panama

• January 29 – Panama reopens its land borders for the first time since March 2020, setting off a new wave of migration.

Deaths

January to March

• 12 January – Adolfo Paredes, 43, lawyer.
• 26 January – Richard Holzer, architect (born 1923).
• 4 February – Jaime Murrell, 71, Christian singer and songwriter; COVID-19.
• 7 February – Roberto Hansell, 68, footballer (Tauro FC).
• 9 February – Diógenes Vergara, 50, politician, Deputy (2014–2019); shot.
• 25 February – Frank Holness, 82, basketball player; cerebral ischemia.
• 2 March – Telma Barria Pinzón, diplomat (consul of Panama in Colombia); drowned
• 3 March – Tomas Altamirano Duque, 93, politician, Vice President of Panama (1994–1999).

See also

• List of number-one tropical songs of 2021 (Panama)

References