Wave warning heightened after surfer dies
HOURS after the body of a surfer was recovered in Panama West on Saturday, July 29, Panama’s National Civil Protection...
Month: July 2017
Cross border protest against people-trafficking
Cross border protest against people-trafficking PANAMANIANS and Costa Ricans joined together on the border between the two countries on Saturday,...
15 injured in Bus-pickup crash
FIVE AMBULANCES were used to transport 15 injured to the Rafael Hernández Hospital in the city of David, Chiriqui on...
Prosecutors accused of deception in collaboration deal
THE FORMER director of the defunct National Assistance Program (PAN), Rafael Guardia Jaén, moved from the El Renacer Prison to...
OPINION: Political and judicial whirlwind
hoyporhoy La Prensa July 28 THE STATEMENTS made by the only financial operator that refused to avail himself of the...
Panama Papers bring down Pakistan Prime Minister
ANOTHER corrupt political head has rolled because of the Panama Papers revelations exposing the activities of law firm Mossack Fonseca...
Varela accused in Odebrecht bombshell
THE LATEST bombshell in the ongoing Odebrecht bribery scandal adds President Juan Carlos Varela to the list of those who...
CORRECTION: Wrong snake blamed
An observant reader noticed that in a July 23 posting Newsroom used an incorrect photo when reporting a death from...
Ruling party deputy fingered in Odebrecht probe
A PROMINENT government deputy who heads the National Assembly Committee that handles complaints against Supreme Court judges has become the...
Corruption watchdog follows dubious land deal
AN INVESTIGATION into a dubious land deal involving a former mayor of La Chorrera uncovered by a newspaper investigation has...
Assembly lets judges off the hook and vice versa
The Credentials and Constitutional Affairs ommittee of the National Assembly, during the presidency of Panamenista deputy Jorge Alberto Rosas (2016-2017),...
OPINION: Panamas injustice evil
Hoyporhoy, La Prensa July 26 “GIVE a favor get a favor ". That seems to be the matrix of the...
