OPINION: Seeking transparency in murky financial sector
THE FINACIAL sector is one of the most important segments of the economy and has enormous potential for development. The...
Month: October 2016
Bailed ex-ministers Miami trips nixed
FORMER MINISTER of Labor and Workforce Development, Alma Cortés, who was released from jail after paying a record $300,000 bail...
New UK ambassador to Panama named
THE UNITED KINGDOM’S next ambassador to Panama will be Damion Andrew Potter. He will take up his post in August...
The fight against Latin American feminicide
By Adriana Estevez IT’S NOT BEEN a particularly uplifting month to be a woman in Latin America, especially if you...
MEDIA WATCH: Trumpism not going away
EVEN IF HE LOSES, Donald Trump isn’t going away, writes Mark Fisher in the Washington Post But the man...
OPINION: The contagion of drug trafficking
THE PENETRATION levels achieved by drug trafficking in Panama are really worrying, not only because of the violence it...
Tighter border security agreed with Colombia
Panama and Colombia have agreed to to strengthen security between the two countries. Two new crossing border stations will be...
$21.6 billion budget okd
THE $21.6 BILLION state budget for 2017 has been approved National Assembly Budget Committee. The meeting was attended by Minister...
Apartment buyers class action over shoddy work
A CLASS ACTION on behalf of 42 people who bought apartments in PH Royal Tower in the Carasquilla district of...
Over 50 Odebrecht execs get deals to ease sentences
OVER 5O OFFICIALS of Odebrecht, Panama’s most favored public contractor,have reached deals with prosecutors in Brazil's multi billion dollae...
Bail denied for top officials linked to bank scandal
BAIL has been refused for two top former officers of the State-owned savings bank, Caja de Ahorros. On Tuesday, October 25...
State bank scandal investigations continue
Former Caja de Ahorros board member Ricardo Arango Pezet and formerManager Jayson Pastor were interviewed by anticorruption prosecutors on Tuesday...
