Communication breakdown as 37 die in hospital
WHILE the Social Security Fund(CSS) has a sole director who handles both health issues and finances it will be difficult to prevent outbreaks like the one that left...
Month: August 2014
Police swoop nets 24 restaurant marauders
POLICE made another 11 arrests on Thursday, August 22 ,during a Panama Province-wide sweep to track down members of the...
48 hours heavy rains alert
A GREEN 48 HOURS weather alert was issued by The National Civil Protection System (SINAPROC on Friday, August 22, with...
Panama speeding land auctions to plug revenue holes
PANAMA’S Ministry of Economy and Finance, facing multiple challenges as it unravels the books of the Martinelli administration, is considering...
Hospital boss discovered killer tragedy on the news
WHEN THE DIRECTOR of the Social Security Fund (CSS), Guillermo Sáez-Llorens, appeared before the National Assembly on August 13, to...
13 restaurant marauders now in detention
FIVE MORE suspects with alleged links to the criminal network that has led a series of assaults on restaurants and...
Chiriqui tragedy kills 10, injures, 116
A LARGE natural reservoir that formed on top of Picacho hill, in La Amistad International Park (PILA), led to the...
12 tigers in Chiriqui not public danger – ANAM
TWELVE CAGED tigers in La Estrella de -ugaba, Chiriqui are not a danger to the community, says the National Environmental...
Pepper spray in Assembly as comptroller sidesteps questions,
IN HER SECOND day before the National Assembly, Panama’s Comptroller Gioconda Torres de Bianchini provided only limited responses to questions...
New restaurant security program follows raids
THREE OF THE FOUR men identified in connection with robberies and assaults on customers and owners of 11 restaurants in...
Assembly calls for firing of “incompetent” comptroller
AFTER two days of grilling in the National Assembly of Comptroller Gioconda Torres de Bianchini, government and opposition deputies who...
Financial Pacific scandal: Criminal complaint against ex-director
A CRIMINAL complaint has been issued by the Superintendency of Market Securities (SMV) against a former director Ignacio Fábrega, who...
