$64,000 surgery handout for well paid insider
AS a newly formed committee sits down in the presidential palace to discuss the surgery backlog for hundreds of Social...
Month: May 2017
Plane with false Panama registration crashes
THE CRASH of a CESSNA 172 plane with a counterfeit Panama registration number on Saturday, May 27 in bad weather in...
Corruption hearing gets 3rd suspension
THE PRELIMINARY hearing of the former director of the The General Directorate of Revenue (DGI), facing money laundering and corruption...
CD presidential hopeful corruption probe
THE CD PARTY presidential candidate in the 2014 election is the latest high profile figure from the previous administration to...
OPINION: A discretionary disaster
hoyporhoy La Prensa, May 29 IF THERE IS something clear in the handling of discretionary items of the Presidency of...
29 under investigation in bribery scandal
PANAMA is still awaiting confessions made to Brazilian prosecutors by Odebrecht executives that will help local authorities nail some 29...
America First in world obesity rankings
MIRROR MIRROR on the wall, who’s the fattest country of them all? According to a Dow Jones report, released Monday...
OPINION : Panamas political bourgeoisie
Hoyporhoy La Prensa. May 26 THEY usually attack the messenger when a corruption scandal splatters them, stains them or washes...
America First and global health security
By Ana Rita Sequeira US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s first budget request for fiscal year 2018 includes drastic cuts for diplomacy...
MEDIA WATCH: The shove that circled the world
NEWSER – It was a shove seen around the world: President Trump pushed aside Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic as...
Panamas hooky playing lawmakers
A TOTAL of 63 of the 71 elected lawmakers of the National Assembly, or 88 percent, make use of rules...
Batches of soft drinks,water, pulled from market
THE MINISTRY of Health (Minsa), has ordered the removal of four batches of soft drinks and bottled water from store...
