$47 million embezzlement suspect from cell to luxury hospital
LUIS CUCALÓN, the former director of the General Department of Revenue, has moved from a cell in El Renacer prison...
Month: September 2015
Panama paying the piper for Martinelli spending
THE FORECASTS of many of Panama’s leading economists are coming true as the country faces the debt payments left by...
Canal authority seeking funding for third bridge
PANAMA’S Canal Authority (ACP) is looking for international funding to complete the construction of the third bridge over the waterway...
Officials haunted by ghost of empty rental
A lease agreed by the Social Security Fund (CSS) has come back to haunt the former director and Guillermo Sáez-Llorens...
OFF THE CUFF: Buck passer faces corruption probe
FORMER SOCIAL SECURITY DIRECTOR Guillermo Sáez-Llorens arrived at the office of the third anti-corruption prosecutor on Friday September 11 to...
Panama-Pacifico emergency landing
A PLANE that hit an animal during takeoff from Isla Contadora on Friday September 11 had to make an emergency...
Panama Biomuseo in line for Museum Oscar
PANAMA’S Biomuseo on the Amador Causeway is in line for the Leading Culture Destinations International Prize, considered the "Oscars" of...
A historical twist to Canadian Thanksgiving
By Margot Thomas OCTOBER is just around the corner and with it Canadian Thanksgiving which not only comes earlier...
Panama reviews logistic for Syrian refugees
PANAMA’S Foreign Ministry reported Wednesday September 9, that it has started preparing for meetings to discuss accepting refugees from Iraq...
Varela meets with Cuba’s Raul Castro
PESIDENT Juan Carlos Varela met with Cuban President at the presidential headquarters in Plaza de la Revolución in Havana on...
Early Xmas stocking for Metro-Bus workers
METRO BUS employees will get an early Christmas stocking when the government distributes $16.2 million in compensation to the company's...
Former PAN boss kids change to country jail
TWO OF THE CHILDREN of former National Aid Program (PAN) Director Rafael Guardía Jaén, who have been in preventive detention...
