Metro line 2 27 percent advanced
AFTER 13 months of construction work Metro line 2 is 27 percent advanced, and 12 of the 16 stations on the line are underway says Metro Director Roberto Roy....
Month: November 2016
Nidal Waked extradition gets presidential nod
THE EXTRADITION of Nidal Waked from Colombia to the United States to face charges of money laundering and bank fraud ...
WORLD VIEW: Nuclear energy where now?
By Mark Hibbs IN 1945 generating electricity was one of a number of potential applications of atom-splitting technology developed in...
Mossack Fonseca challenged to discuss corruption
TRANSPARENCY International has thrown down the gauntlet to Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, center of the "Panama Papers" scandal, and...
50,000 new vehicles boost gas sales,traffic jams
NEARLY 50.000 new vehicles on Panama roads helped push push gasoline sales up 8.9 percent in the first nine months of...
Body of landslide victim found
THE BODY of a Nueva Libia landslide victim, Virgilio Martínez, 42 who went missing, Nov 22, has been found. Martinez...
CD Party protests persecution at Human Rights meeting
A SCATTERING of CD Party members led by the former first lady, Marta Martinelli demonstrated in front of the the Radisson Decápolis hotel...
Firefighters challenged by grassland arsonists
Panama Fire Fighters (CBP) dealt with 460 fires throughout the country, from January 1 to November 14. Jaime Villar, director...
OPINION: The scourge of obesity
Hoyporhoy La Prensa, Nov 29 CHRONIC non communicable diseases are a scourge responsible for half of deaths in Panama. Diabetes, hypertension...
Tocumen International revenue up 27%
TOCUMEN International Airport continues to be a Panama money spinner with revenue, up 27percent to $191 million in the first 10 months of the...
WORLD VIEW: Trumps beefed up economics
By Jonathan Power DONALD TRUMP is changing the right wing’s economic spots. He is doing what Franklin Roosevelt did at...
Interpol red alert suspects seek habeus corpus
TWO OF THE central figures in the financial scandal involving the government bank Caja de Ahorros(CA)and the Financial Pacifix (FP)...
