Month: February 2016

VivaColombia cutting Panama flights

February 26, 2016

VIVACOLOMBIA the low-cost airline is planning to cut its flights to and from Panama to four a week from seven...

Ex-Odebrecht boss ready to talk on Panama election links

February 26, 2016

THE FORMER president of Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction giant mired in the country’s biggest corruption scandal, has said said that...

CD leaders in lock down over election funding scandal

February 26, 2016

DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (CD) leaders. From Ricardo Martinelli down, have retreated to their bunkers following Brazilian media revelations that João Santana...

Suspect in scam of Canadian company, arrested in Colombia

February 26, 2016

PANAMA businessman, Richard Fifer, was arrested in Colombia, on Thursday, Feb 25 , two months after the Sixteenth Circuit Prosecutor...

14-meter-long whale beached in Los Santos

February 25, 2016

STRONG WINDS and currents helped push a 14 meter whale ashore between the beaches of El Estero and El Jobo...

Electoral reforms media limits condemned

February 25, 2016

MORE TRANSPARENCY in the election process to determine, among other things, how parties are funded was called for by human...

First Zica cases in Panama city as total hits 88.

February 25, 2016

FIFTEEN new cases of Zica virus including the first in Panama city were announced on Thursday,February 25, by Health Minister...

Oderbrecht paid for CD presidential campaign guru

February 25, 2016

FORMER CD campaign gurus, João Santana and his wife, Monica Moura, hired to run the presidential bid of José...

New Canal Board director named

February 25, 2016

FRANCISCO Sierra Fabrega currently a government Minister-advisor has been named to the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Authority...

OFF THE CUFF: Call for sick kids hospital action

February 25, 2016

BUREAUCRACY is slowing progress towards replacing Panama’s aging Hospital del Niño (Children’s Hospital). The hospital’s facilities are vastly overcrowded with...