50 companies interested in supplying Panama medicines
COMPARED to the $1.8 billion willing tender for the construction of Metro Line 2, $88 million is small potatoes, but...
Month: May 2015
Waterless Sunday on Avenida Balboa
RESIDENTS of upscale residential towers on Panama’s Avenida Balboa will spend the greater part of Sunday, May 17, without water....
Lawyer protests Noriega Thursday court appearance
FORMER PANAMA military dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega is due in court next Thursday. May 21,charged with the 1970 disappearance and...
PAN SCANDAL: suspects cooperate to exit cells
JUAN CARLOS MARCIAGA, under investigation for his alleged link to cost overruns in contracts for the acquisition of bags of...
OFF THE CUFF: Arrests expand in Panama scandals
BUSINESSMAN Carlos "Caneto" Araúz, under investigation for alleged irregularities in the purchase of bags of food through the National Aid...
Canal Expansion, last chance visit
Canal Expansion, last chance visit YOUR LAST chance to visit the Canal expansion site, at the Pacific endbefore the locks...
OFF THE CUFF: Monorail connection from Metro to airport?
METRO DIRECTOR Roberto Roy while still basking in the announcement of the Odebrecht victory in the bidding for line 2...
Ex-deputy finance minister in womens jail
THE former deputy minister of Economy, Gladys Cedeno, who until Monday May 11 was Director of Finance of the Panama...
Martinelli immunity ball bounces back to Electoral Tribunal
PANAMA’S Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) decided unanimously on Friday May 15, to ask the Electoral Tribunal (TE) to certify...
Vice-president speaks out on Metro contract
RAIN IS FALLING on the celebrations of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht which came out the winner in the bidding...
Community Boards may dodge multi-million fraud charges
DETAILS OF the fraudulent handling of $240 million by local community boards in the Martinelli era, (2009-2014) may not be...
HEALTH WATCH: Berries in the fight against aging
By Dr Michael Greger A plant-based diet is thought to have played a significant role in human evolution and the consumption of...
