Lockdown leaves festivalgoers stranded on beach with sewage problem

30 British attendees at Panama event criticise embassy and say they fear being stuck for months

It must have seemed like a dream adventure: a two-week festival on a beach in central America, camping out under the stars at night in what organisers called "paradise on Earth".

But because of the coronavirus outbreak, a group of 30 British workers and volunteers at the festival are stranded in a makeshift camp facing nonstop rain, a difficult relationship with the British embassy, and a sewage problem.