Riot police called to Via Argentina
RIOT POLICE were called to Via Argentina on Wednesday morning, October 5 to face protestors on Vía Argentina. A dozen...
Month: October 2016
Credit card debt up 22 percent
CREDIT CARD debt continues to rise with many card users earning less than $800 a month, facing usurious charges. The...
Death toll continues in coolant poisoning scandal
AN ANNUAL death toll of between 20 and 25 people continues in Panama 10 years after hundreds died from poisoning...
Talks on Panamas migrant challenge
WHILE EUROPE struggles to cope with its massive immigration problems, heightened by the conflicts in the Middle East, Panama is...
Panama on path for grim record with 378th road death
AN UNIDENTIFIED man aged around 60 became Panama’s 338th traffic fatality in 275 days, when he was hit by...
Bidding for$400 million kids hospital set for 2017
THE LONG delayed tender for the construction of the new Hospital del Niño (HN) is now scheduled for the first...
WORLD VIEW: Concentrating prosperity
By Wim Naude URBANIZATION and entrepreneurship go together, like a horse and carriage, but, like love and marriage, the relationship is...
IMF lowers Panama growth forecast
PANAMA’S GROWTH rate projection for this year and next has been downgraded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but it...
New water plant to serve 143,000
BIDDING for the construction a of new water treatment plant in Gamboa, that is projected to serve 143,000 users opened...
Corralled tax dodgers boost state income
GOVERNMENT efforts to reduce evasion boosted tax revenues, the main source of income, by 10.3 percent in the first seven...
Complaints on Judges travel jaunts nixed
A COMPLAINT filed against several jet setting judges of the Supreme Court for irregularities in their travel expenses was dismissed...
Former garbage boss facing four charges
UNIFORMS costing more than $450,000 for garbage truck workers, we paid for and never delivered according to Public Ministry prosecutors....
