President joins 1000 cops in jail raids
OVER 1,000 POLICE and members of the newly formed “Eagle” anti crime unit, led by National Police Director, Omar Pinzon...
Month: April 2017
Rampaging foreigner, two arrests same day
A 25-YEAR-OLD FOREIGNER had the unique experience of being arrested twice in one day in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula. The...
Metro celebrates anniversary with stoppage
PANAMA’S METRO Line 1 celebrated its third anniversary on Thursday April 6 with its third stoppage in a week. On...
Martinelli helicopter bought by scandal plagued company
THE MARTINELLI family helicopter, returned to Panama this week, was not bought from bribes obtained from Odebrecht and moved to...
$87 million probe for Panama oil, gas
CONTRACTS with companies from three countries who will spend $87 million to carry out seismic studies to test for gas...
Traffic deaths outstrip homicides.
HOMICIDES in Panama, largely gang related, reached a total of 108 in the first three months of the year, but...
MEDIA WATCH: Isis labels Trump an idiot
NEWSER – The Islamic State has delivered its first public pronouncement about President Trump, and it mocks him as an...
17 homes demolished after Chiriqui earthquake
THE NUMBER of Chiriqui homes affected by two recent earthquakes and 70 aftershocks is rising as inspections by the National...
Panama Papers front and center in The Hague
THE ACTIVITIES of Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca are now front and center fof prosecutors across Europe, while the founding...
OPINION: When Impunity replaces Justice
hoyporhoy La Prensa, Apr 5 The majority of the judges of the Supreme Court have reiterated the non-aggression pact between...
127 highway deaths in 93 days
HIGHWAY DEATHS in Panama continue on a record breaking course with 127 tragedies in the first 93 days of the...
Ex state bank president denied bail
RICCARDO FRANCOLINI’S introduction to life behind bars will continue after The Second High Court of Justice denied a bailapplication. The decision...
