Odebrecht bribery probe covering 2004-2017
PANAMANIAN prosecutors will travel to Brazil to sign an agreement with Brazilian authorities, to grant immunity to Odebrecht executives who ...
Month: July 2017
Panama Papers duo face fresh corruption probe
THE PANAMA law firm Mossack Fonseca is once again in the corruption spotlight as the Second Prosecutor against Organized Crime...
Canal wins $25 million arbitration hearing
THE PANAMA Canal Authority (ACP) coffers will increase by $25 million after winning an arbitration hearing over a claim filed by...
Bloody Sunday lifts traffic death toll to 258
THE TOTAL number of traffic fatalities in Panama in the first seven months of the year climbed by five to...
Plastic Armageddon
By Robert Hunzinger, TMS Media Service ONE OF the great myths of modern-day society is that people recycle in earnest… saving...
Panama Geisha coffee sets new record at $601 a pound
PANAMA continues to produce some of the world’s best - and most expensive coffee - with Asian buyers bidding a...
Panama banks shine in Latin America
PANAMANIAN lending continues to be one of the most attractive in Latin America despite the rise in interest rates in...
Floods hit 187 families, close water plants
SOME 187 families in Panama West were affected by flooding following heavy rain and strong winds on Sunday July 30...
Credentials and ethics chair with Odebrecht ties clings to seat
A STATEMENT announcement made yesterday by the Panamenista deputy Jorge Alberto Rosas that he would recuse himself from any file...
Recorded traffic deaths reach 253
RESIDENTS of the Omar sector, of Burunga, Arraijan who were awakened at 3.30 am on Saturday July 29 by the...
Odebrecht bribery inaction sparks protests
GROWING frustration over perceived lack of action in the investigation of the Odebrecht bribery scandal in Panama, while elsewhere in...
Business and civil groups demand speedy Odebrecht probe
BUSINESS organizations civil society groups and members of political parties are united in demanding that the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP)...
