OFF THE CUFF: $20 million in food handouts for CD candidates
FOR THE THIRD TIME, former National Aid Program (PAN) Director Rafael Guardia has refused to make a statement to prosecutors...
Month: December 2014
Panamas corruption scandal widens daily
PANAMA’S corruption scandal continues to widen with news on Wednesday of the first steps towards an investigation of an undisclosed...
$14 milion spy equipment missing
THE DISAPPEARANCE of nearly $14 million of sophisticated phone tapping equipment used by the previous administration has led to the...
Metro bus strike looms after firings
THE FIRING by Mi Bus of 80 Metro bus drivers for absenteeism in working hours on Wednesday afternoon, December 3,...
Public Ministry will move on PAN corruption
THE PUBLIC MINISTRY (MP) will investigate cases of corruption in the National Assistance Program (PAN) said President, Juan Carlos Varela...
OFF THE CUFF: Panama wallows in the mud of corruption
TO NO ONE’S SURPRISE Panama continues to wallow around in the bottom of the corruption barrel with countries like Egypt,...
New cheap flights linking 3 Central America countries.
THE BATTLE for airline passengers in Central America is heating up with a new entrant in the low-cost flight stakes, For...
Corruption suspect tranfers $2 million to Bahamas
AT LEAST $2 million was transferred to the Bahamas tax haven in November by a company related to Rafael Guardia,Jaen...
Panama 2015 growth leads the continent at 7%
PANAMA will have the fastest growing economy on the continent in 2015 according to a projection from the United Nations...
Former Martinelli era big spender moves to jail
THE FORMER director of the National Assistance Program (PAN) Rafael Guardia has been transferred to , the new prison Gran...
Martinelli insider cited in investigation of judge
Panama's former vice president and member of Ricardo Martinelli’s inner circle Felipe "Pipo" Virzi will be cited on 1 Friday...
CD candidate downplays legal challenge
CD CANDIDATE Manuel Cohen has shrugged off the legal challenge seeking to prevent him from participating in the December 21...
