Panama Metro drivers accept pay offer
Panama’s bus drivers, faced with rising criticism over their pay demands have decided to accept the $580 monthly starting salary...
Month: November 2010
Employers note: Domestic workers signed up for social security
Over 2,000 domestic workers were enrolled in Panama’s Social Security program at an information seminar on Sunday (November 20). (more…)
Continental wins food service award
Continental Airlines has again earned the "Outstanding Food Service by a Carrier" in the Americas in the 2010 edition of...
Scholarship program with Cuba in the cards
Panama is seeking to revive the scholarship program it once had with Cuba says Vice President and Foreign Minister, Juan...
Social Security Lab failed standards test 3 years before 154 killed
"All senior officials" knew about problems in Panama’s Social Security laboratory that produced tainted medications killing more than 154 people...
Illegal surveillance suspect gets asylum in Panama
A former director of Colombia’s central intelligence agency, under investigation in an eavesdropping and illegal surveillance scandalhas been granted political...
Copa increasing fleet, routes, and flights
Copa Airlines has signed a contract to rent another10 Boeing 737-800 They will be delivered to the company between 2011 and...
Metro bus drivers get big pay raise offer
Drivers of Panama’s new Metro buses have been offered a $100 increase to their proposed pay rate, bringing it to...
Passenger-rape taxi suspects arrested
Two taxi wanted for alleged rape in Panama have been arrested in Alcalde-Diaz. (more…)
Panama cruise sailings underway
Panama’s cruise season kicked off on Thursday with the departure from Colon of "Grandeur of the Seas". It marked the...
Seven charged in Panama Social Security deaths scandal
Events leading to the deaths of over 150 people in Panama from poisoned cough mixture "were foreseeable, preventable and avoidable"...
Restrictions on former president remain while money laundering case pending
Former Panamanian president Ernesto Pérez Balladares under investigation for money laundering, has been denied a a waver of restrictions on...
