Task force reviewing Panama financial sector
The inter-governmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF), is reviewing Panama’s financial sector. Last week a team conducted a "pre-evaluation"...
Month: October 2016
Criminal complaint against judges who freed Martinelli inner circle
A CRIMINAL complaint has been filed against Judge María de Lourdes Estrada de Villar, who was one of the judges...
Cancer Patients lives at risk by CSS snafus
THE LIVES of cancer patients are in danger because of delays in the purchase of medicines by Social Security, while...
22 injured in bus crash
AN EARLY MORNING bus crash on Saturday October 8 injured at least 25 people in El Copé, Coclé The bus...
Assembly committee ups campaign donations limit
IN A MISH MASH of changes to rules governing campaign contributions The Government Commission of the National Assembly has increased...
Heavy rains leave 50,000 without water
Over 50,000 homes in Chiriqui are without water as heavy rains have affected seven water purification plants in different regions...
Panama rejects opacity criticism
PANAMA’S Minister of Economy, Dulcidio De la Guardia, has dismissed the opacity criticism of American Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz....
MEDIA WATCH:The Scandal behind Panama Papers
TMS NEWS SERVICE: After the leak of more than 11 million documents detailing sensitive, and often terrifying, information about offshore...
Metro extension 22% advanced
THE 2019 VISIT of Pope Francis to Panama, lobbied for by President Juan Carlos Varela and first Lady Lorena Castillo,...
Landslides, floods follow storm alert
HEAVY RAIN and strong winds followed a storm warning on Saturday, October 8 bringing landslides, downed trees and floods to...
Jailed ex judge not cleared of money laundering
FORMER Supreme Court Judge Alejandro Moncada Luna was never exonerated of the crime of money laundering and the Public Ministry...
Impunity decision upsets civil groups
CIVIL GROUPS, political commentators and citizens of different political stripes have raised an outcry over the decision of a Panama...
