Indigenous people compensated for 1972 eviction
OVER 40 YEARS after they were evicted from their land for the construction of a hydroelectric project indigenous people will...
Month: August 2015
Celebrating aTaste of India with a Canadian touch
By Margot Thomas OVER 50 lovers of Indian cuisine turned up on Tuesday August 14 to enjoy a Taste of India Celebration organized...
Turkey adds direct flights to Panama
PANAMA, already defined in terms of air and sea transport as "the hub of the Americas", is opening its runways...
MEDIA WATCH: Book Fair Breaking a Panama Myth
Hoy Por Hoy La Prensa Aug 20 THE PANAMA International Book Fair has become one of the most important cultural...
Judges wiretap decision creates concerns
A JUDGE’S decision to move from jail to house arrest two former National Security officials implicated in a widespread spying...
Company in eye of corruption scandal gets $3.7 million more
KEY PLAYERS, including the top executives of the company involved in a bribery scandal linked to a failed project are...
Detained journalist to Santo Tomas
JOURNALIST Julio Miller has been taken from a cell at the Department of Judicial Investigation to Santo Tomás Hospital for...
Transparency chief renews call for removal of suspect from Canal board.
THE DIRECTOR of the National Authority of Transparency and Access to Information (Antai)Angelica Maytín is not prepared to take no...
Drought still hitting Canal and homes
PANAMA’S WATER worries which led to the recent declaration of a state of emergency, could continue into and though 2016...
Wiretapping suspects from cells house arrest
Wiretapping suspects from cells to House arrest 16th CRIMINAL court judge Enrique Perez ordered house arrest for two defendants in...
A tangled web of family dividends at Tocumen
Investigations of the purchase of $60 million in dehydrated food made by the National Assistance Program (PAN) under the command...
Panamas continuing building boom
IN THE MIDST of a Panama construction boom a few years ago, one real estate commentator quipped that Panama’s national...
