Gasoline prices down 50% since 2014
THE PRICE of gasoline in Panama has fallen 50% since 2014, but may soon be bottoming out as the price...
Month: February 2016
St Valentine’s Day baby snatchers behind bars
A WOMAN and her cousin, the key suspects in the Valentine’s Day kidnapping of a two-day old babyfrom San Miguel...
US Ambassador calls for level playing field for contracts
FRESH FROM presenting his credentials to President Juan Carlos Varela the new US Ambassador to Panama John Feeley told journalists...
Chief magistrate in eye of a fresh storm
REPRESENTATIVES Of civil society and lawyers warn that the increasingly isolated president of the Supreme Court Jose Ayu Prado, could...
Paitilla residents take development fight to Supreme Court
PAITILLA RESIDENTS don’t give up easily in their ongoing battles with authorities and what they see as out of control development,,...
OFF THE CUFF: National Assembly carnival hangover
National ASSEMBLY deputies were lampooned this week for being asleep at, or missing from, their posts after a week off,...
Seafood market to get facelift and odor cut
PANAMA’S Seafood market is set to undergo a $3.7 million facelift that will include an underground waste disposal unit to...
Panama on hot seat over exchange of tax info
PANAMA has been asked by to reiterate its commitment to the automatic exchange of tax information by adopting the model...
Baby kidnapper carried out pregnancy charade
THE WOMAN who allegedly stole a baby from San Miguel Archangel Hospital Sunday, Feb.14, pretended to be pregnant for...
Shakespeare in a rollicking 21st century time frame
The entertainment scene with Margot Thomas SHAKESPEARE, is back in the news internationally because of the upcoming publication of a...
OFF THE CUFF: Nearly $2.5 billion spent on gambling
THE ENABLERS of Panama’s gambling addiction took a $20 million hit in 2015 but still managed to extract $2.469 billion...
Ambulance leasing to avoid past mistakes
LEASING ambulances instead of buying them outright will avoid mistakes of the past says Social Security Director Estivenson Giron. Defending...
