Pope names Panama’s first cardinal
POPE FRANCISCO has named José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan, 70-year-old Bishop of David, as Panama’s first cardinal. The pontiff revealed a...
Month: January 2015
Search for remains of Dutch tourists to resume
THE SEARCH for more skeletal remains of two young Dutch women tourists, Lisanne Froon,21, and Kris Kremers, 22, will be...
Government moves on Bilingual Panama program
Government moves on Bilingual Panama program PANAMA’S government is sending 512 teachers and students from the Juan Demóstenes Arosemena Superior...
Mounting pedestrian death toll near overhead crossings
THE DEATHS of two women hit by cars within on the same stretch of road in Brisas del Golf, San...
Petaquilla Minerals misses financial filing deadline
PETAQUILLA MINERALS the troubled Canadian mining company that has been extracting gold in Panama since 2009, has failed to...
50 fired as latest corruption scandal emerges
SOME 50 people have been dismissed at Panama’s Ministry of Social Development (Mides), after the discovery of scams in the...
Coronado accident slows highway traffic
A MORNING collision between a taxi and a Nissan Xtrail on theTrans-America highway in the region of Coronado injured an...
Court rejects Guardia defense move.
PANAMA’S Criminal Court has rejected a request by the defense lawyer of Rafael Guardia the former director of the National...
Immunity lifted on CD candidate
THE ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL has lifted the immunity from prosecutionof former Democratic Change (CD) candidate in Herrera, Heriberto 'Yunito' Vega. (more…)
CD candidates got election scholarship bonanza
THE INSTITUTE for Training and Development of Human Resources (IFARHU), is the latest institution to come under investigation for alleged...
Varela to fight corruption, impunity, election abuses
MALEFACTORS in the administration of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli will get little comfort from President, Juan Carlos Varela’s, new year message...
Seven traffic deaths mark Panama New Year
FIVE people died in Panama traffic accidents on the first day of 2015 and another two were killed early Friday...
