OPINION: Never ending medicines tragedy
THE TRAGEDY of drug shortages in the public health system is never ending. Administration after administration, patients, especially those with...
Month: March 2017
Panama International Film Festival freebies
PANAMA’S Sixth International Film Festival (Mar.30 –Apr. 5) is once again providing free screening of feature films providing entertainment for...
Six tons of cocaine seized in Panama
THREE of the six tons of cocaine seized in Panama, in the first two months of the year, were discovered...
$932,000 to organize 42 days of meetings
PANAMA’S Ministry of Foreign Affairs has approved the outlay of $932,000 to hire a company to organize 42 days of...
Government warned on unconstitutional hand-outs
THE GOVERNMENT'S Administration Prosecutor , Rigoberto González, has urged Panama’s institutions that make donations with public funds to "pay attention"...
OPINION: Panama’s Odebrecht tail dragging
ODEBRECHT'S actions in other countries are a measure of what could happen if our authorities do not act with determination....
Fresh call to go-easy on electricity use
PANAMA’S POWER supply is still fragile and the Government has again called on the population to go easy with electricity...
Panama joins call to free Venezuela political prisoners
THE ORGANIZATION of American States (OAS) has backed away from expelling Venezuela but 14 member states, including Panama, have urged...
ENVIRONMENT: Sustainability From The Ground Up
If all politics is local, then so too must be dealing with climate change. In Canada, the Province of British...
Panama firefighters get immediate pay raise
PANAMA’S FIREFIGHTERS are getting an immediate across the board salary increase with the new base set at $850 a month....
Finance Minister studying plan to brake public pay raises
PANAMA’S Public sector wage increases, have been growing at an unsustainable rate of 11 percent in recent years warns Minister...
LATIN AMERICA: Tweets snuffing democracy
If you thought Trump was top of the Twitter table, you might want to take a look at Latin America...
