SMILE: Exercise for the over 50s
Submitted by a reader in Entebbe, Uganda. BEGIN by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room...
Month: April 2017
The tortuous route to electoral reform
PANAMA’S PRESIDENT, Juan Carlos Varela is regularly caricatured as a tortoise, as he ponders at length before making decisions. It...
Mossack Fonseca pot still on the boil
NAMES of those involved in the Odebrecht bribery scandal are being revealed in Brazil through the broadcasting of videoed confessions...
CSS doctors join Santo Tomas strikers
SOME 800 doctors from the Social Security Fund (CSS) have joined the indefinite strike launched by specialists and interns at...
First Lady reports death threats against disc jockey son
PANAMA’S FIRST LADY Lorena Castillo de Varela has restricted access to her Twitter account after denouncing death threats made against...
MEDIA WATCH: Cake and golf leader
President Trump’s spending of public money on his own ease and comfort is lavish and wasteful. His attitude toward taxpayers...
Third strike against political theft probe
PANAMA’S SUPREME COURT has again reinforced the oft repeated widespread belief that there is a non-aggression pact between the Court...
WORLD VIEW: The North Korean hot potato
By Jonathan Power THERE ARE 29 states which have at one time or another set about becoming nuclear weapons powers...
Videos of the week: Odebrecht confessions
EXCERPTS from over a thousand videos of the confessions of managers and executives of The Brazilian Odebrecht company are being ...
Ex Social Security director jail bound
THE CRIMINAL Chamber of Panama’s Supreme Court overturned the ruling of the Second Court of Justice and has sentenced the...
Oderbrecht fines match Panama contracts
THE ODEBRECHT construction company has been hit with an order to pay $2.6 billion in fines after admitting that it...
Panama gets level 10 UV warning
PANAMA’S civil defense agency Sinaproc has warned of high levels of UV radiation throughout Monday Apr 17 across the country,...
