Newly minted companies get multi million dollar government orders
The National Assistance Program (PAN) under the controversial administration of Giacomo Tamburrelli (2009-2012), signed contracts worth millions of dollars with...
Month: March 2013
Lower age limit for sterilization approved by Martinelli
A LAW allowing women over 23 to be sterilized has been signed by President Ricardo Martinelli in spite of opposition...
Crime buster Giuliana to speak at Panama security event
Rudolph Giuliani The former mayor of the Big Apple will give the keynote speech at the International Security Fair in...
After six year battle poison scandal victims get a deal
Victims and relatives of Panama’s diethylene glycol scandal which killed over 300 people who took cough mixture made with the...
Lavitola sentenced for putting squeeze on Berlusconi over party girls
VALTER LAVITOLA, with a checkered history in Panama, has been sentenced by a judge of Naples (southern Italy) to two...
New deadly drug combo circulating in Panama
A new deadly drug , a combination of cocaine and an equine dewormer, is circulating in Panama. (more…)
March 15 last hurrah for diablos rojos
PANAMA’S Diablos Rojos, the noisy, polluting used US school buses that have served the city for decades will be gone...
Unseasonal weather causes damage across Isthmus
Strong gusting north easterly winds lifted roofs , felled trees and downed power lines and billboards over the weekend in...
Barges sent to ease Taboga water crisis
TABOGA, the Island of Flowers, and one of Panama’s most visited tourist destinations is facing a drinking water crisis and...
CD presidential hopefuls outclass opposition – Martinelli
"The people do not deserve to have our achievements reversed like the, the 100 for the 70, the universal scholarships,...
Deputy defends hand-outs to constituents
Democratic Change (CD) deputy Mark Gonzalez on Saturday March 2, defended the practice of he and his colleagues asking for...
Transparency International calls for end to deputy patronage
The Panama chapter of Transparency International, has called on the government led by president, Ricardo Martinelli, to suspend grants to...
