Five dead, 11 injured in 11-hour road carnage
FIVE people died in a space of 11 hours in overnight traffic accidents in different parts of the country at...
Month: February 2017
BRIBERY: Jail move for ex-president
PERU’S Attorney General is seeking preventive detention for former President Alejandro Toledo for the alleged crimes of money laundering and...
WORLD VIEW: Yes, Nato is obsolete
By Jonathan Power SO WHAT does President Donald Trump think about Nato? Twice during his campaign he rubbished it publically,...
16 vie for Social Security hot seat
SIXTEEN CANDIDATES have put their names forward to fill the hot seat of Director of Social Security (CSS) whose previous...
Mario Martinelli seeks to block bribery probe
AS ANTI-CORRUPTION prosecutors draw the net tighter on suspects in the Odebrecht bribery scandal where at least $59 million was...
Navarro sues over Trojan horse story
FORMER PRD presidential candidate Juan Carlos Navarro has sued La Prensa for $2 million for alleged damages to "his image,...
Varela presses Colombia on drug trafficking
President Juan Carlos Varela is pressing his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos to expand his country's efforts to eradicate drug...
Relatives of dead US girl arrive in Bocas del Toro
RELATIVES of 23-year-old American backpacker Catherine Johannet, whose body was found on Isla Bastimentos, in Bocas del Toro on Sunday,...
Corruption scandals hit Metro financing
THE CORRUPTION scandals leading to the jailing of the president of Odebrecht and many of his executives triggered the exit...
Body of missing US tourist found
A WIDESPREAD search for a 23-year old American backpacking tourist missing in Bocas del Toro, since Thursday morning Feb 2 ...
Attorney General uses advertorial on Odebrecht probe
THREE separate investigations into contracts given to the Odebrecht construction company, are ongoing said Attorney General Kenia Porcell on Sunday...
Civil groups ask UN support for independent probe
CIVIL ORGANIZATIONS in the Dominican Republic are moving along a road previously proposed for Panama by Roberton Eisenmann, founder of...
