Judge releases 25 narco-trafficker suspects
A BOONDOGGLE in Panama’s justice system has put 25 people allegedly linked to a network of drug traffickers back on...
Month: July 2016
Judges react to presidents call
THE MESSAGE sent to the Supreme Court and officials of the judiciary by President Juan Carlos Varela in his state...
Corruption prosecutor calls in comptroller auditors in $6.5 million scam
TWO AUDITORS from the Office of Panama’s Comptroller General were interviewed by the fourth anti-corruption prosecutor on Wednesday July 6...
Food price controls extended
THE GOVERNMENT’S faltering price control plan has been extended for another six months. The current controls were put in place...
Booming Panama lags in social progress
WHILE Panama continues to lead the region in economic growth it sits in fifth position in the 2016 Index of...
H1N1flu deaths reach 42
THE H1N1 INFLUENZA virus has claimed 42 lives across the age spectrum as three more patient died over the weekend....
WORLD VIEW: Can genocide be stopped?
By Jonathan Powell AFTER HITLER’S Final Solution- the elimination of the Jews- came Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge and the murder of...
Police raid Super 99 HQ
POLICE swooped on the officesof Importadora Ricamar, the hub of the 99 retail empire of the family of former Panama...
CD Party traitors on trial
THE DEMOCRATIC Change (CD) party deputies who defied Ricardo Martinelli instructions in an Assembly vote are facing disciplinary proceedings,and possible...
Martinelli Interpol red alert
While ex president Ricardo Martinelli was preparing to celebrate American Independence Day in Miami, the city he fled to over...
Senior officials killed in 3 death crash
TWO SENIOR GOVERNMENT officials were among the three dead and two injured following a collision on the the highway between...
OPINION: More of the same from FIFA
FIFA's administration, led by Swiss President Gianni Infantino, is trying to get on with business as usual. Alexandra Wrage breaks...
