On May 15, an unusually hot day for Panama, members of several of Panama's English-speaking Masonic lodges went to the American section of the Corozal Cemetery to inter the ashes of more than 80 deceased Freemasons or Mason's wives. The ashes had been sent to lodges here over the years, mostly from the United States, and properly disposing of them is part of the work of winding up Masonic business at the Scottish Rite Temple in Balboa, which has been sold to a dance academy.

The Abou Saad Shrine, another Masonic institution which used to have its headquarters in Balboa, has lost its building to highway construction. The Shrine, the Scottish rite and some of the English-speaking lodges are moving to the old Officers Club at Albrook, which will need significant renovation before it becomes a comfortable new home for Masonic activities.

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