Martinelli manipulated Petaquilla shares, Shamah asked for $1million – witnesses
MAYTE PELLEGRINI the only person to be charged in the Financial Pacific (FP) $14 million embezzlement scandal,, insisted, under oath,...
Month: October 2014
CD dirty tricks suspect confined to Panama
A FORMER Deputy Minister of Commerce, linked along with former high level government figures to a call center using government...
OFF THE CUFF: Former tourism irregularities go to prosecutor
THE PROFLIGATE spending habits of former Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP) boss Salomon Shamah are under the microscope and 12...
Drug shortage means painful holiday for many
FOR MOST Panamanians, the upcoming Independence holiday are a time for celebration and relaxing, but this year patients with chronic...
OFF THE CUFF: Electoral reform finally gets an airing.
A BUNDLE of proposed changes to Panama’s electoral system sat on the shelf throughout the Martinelli years and was never...
Back stage maneuvering to choose comptroller
WITH OVER a score of candidates bidding for the post of Panama’s comptroller there are divisions down party lines and...
Panama examining financial exchange strategy
WHILE Panama remains one of a shrinking group of countries that have not signed an international agreement on the exchange...
Financial Pacific “links with power sectors”
THE SHADOW of thie Financial Pacific (FP) scandal continues to lengthen and has now fallen on a failed credit union....
New Facebook page for Carols by Candlelight
By Margot Thomas. WITH JUST five weeks to go to the 4th annual Carols by Candlelight/LucesDeNavidad Concert at Mirador Del...
Noriega loses video game lawsuit
A LAWSUIT filed by Panama's former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega against video game company Activision Blizzard, has been dismissed by...
Panama fiscal deficit raised to aid public programs
LAST MINUTE changes to the Fiscal Responsibility Act have given the government have more space for public spending in the...
Panama Judges selling decisions storm
STATEMENTS by a member of Panama’s Supreme Court (CSJ) that some judges archive cases or sell judgments, published in La...
