MEDIA WATCH: When a state body becomes private fiefdom
Hoyporhoy La Prensa, May 22 THE RECTOR of the University of Panama (UP) acts as if this state institution is...
Month: May 2016
Walls tumble for Mossack Fonseca
THE FIRST MAJOR local victim of the Panama Papers scandal is the financial division of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm...
Panama Olympic hope wins Diamond League 200m
PANAMA sprinter Alonso Edward scored his first Diamond League Athletics victory of the season on Sunday May 22, in Rabat,...
Easing preventive detention does not mean suspect off the hook
THE CHANGING by judges of a preventive detention order to house or country arrest is not the end of the...
Former world title holders plea gets TKO
JUDGE Rolando Quesada Vallespi has rejected a request by lawyers for former Panama world boxing champion Celestino Caballero for a...
University in cross hairs of Attorney General
PANAMA’S Attorney General. Kenia Porcell, has set her team to work reviewing the the audit carried out by the Comptroller ‘General...
Two traffic deaths in Chiriqui bring total to 186.
THE SLAUGHTER on Panama highways continues unabated. and in less than six months 186 people have died in traffic accidents...
PRD denies using Assembly funds for campaigning
PANAMA LAWYER Guillermo Cochez is facing a legal challenge after claiming that National Assembly funds to finance a party political...
Democrats Abroad face purge battle
AS DEMOCRATIC Party supporters in the US are fighting in the trenches to determine their choice for presidential candidate, Panama...
WORLD VIEW: US presidential hopefuls ignore space
By Leroy Chiao and Elliot Pulham AS THE RACEfor president of the United States moves closer to Election Day, the...
Panama moving on transparency, laundering
ABOUT 80 percent of the companies that were included in the Panama Papers list were not Panamanian corporations. “There are...
3 km ash plume at Costa Rica volcano
COLUMNS of ash from the Turrialba volcano, in Costa Rica rose three kilometers into the sky on Friday May 20....
