Panama domestic violence up, homicides down
DOMESTIC violence in Panama increased 12% in the first five months of 2015 (8, 8,747 complaints) compared to the same...
Month: July 2015
60% of homicide prosecutions fail
PERPETRATORS of 60 percent of homicides in Panama walk free says First Senior Prosecutor Geomara Guerra de Jones. (more…)
OFF THE CUFF: Scams suspected in diablos rojos pay out
THERE WERE over 400 “irregularities” in the $ 96 million pay out by the Martinelli administration to get the Diablos...
University foundation defies Comptroller.
THE BATTLE between Panama’s Comptroller and the University of Panama Foundation continues as despite assurances to the contrary, officials at...
Comptroller urged to nix Odebrecht contracts
A GROUP of prominent Panama citizens have urged the country’s Comptroller, to refuse to endorse two recent contracts with construction...
No security, no lessons — schoolteachers.
FOLLOWING Tuesdays vandalism leading to the severe injury of a teacher and two students, teachers at the National Institute on...
10 arrested in money laundering triangle
PANAMANIAN security forces and The Spanish Civil Guard have arrested 10 people for money laundering, taking advantage of the exchange...
Interpol red alert for another Panama fugitive
INTERPOL has been asked to issue a red alert for the capture and extradition of businessman Ricky Ricardo Calvo, linked...
Martinelli, Obarrio ran spyware buy
PANAMANIAN FUGITIVE Adolfo Obarrio former private secretary of Ricardo Martinelli and his master were personally involved in the purchase of...
Three burned in school demonstration
A DEMONSTRATION outside the National Institute which left three people badly burned including a teacher,and damage to private property and...
Assembly summons head of troubled health service
AS PUBLIC concerns continue to grow over lack of medicines, delays in surgery and other problems connected with Panama’s Social...
Figali landfill belongs to state – AMP
The Maritime Authority of Panama (AMP) has announced that concessions claimed by Grupo F International of reclaimed land in Amador...
