Martinelli extradition hearing adjourned
EX-PANAMA PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014) dressed in a prison jump suit and wearing leg irons and handcuffs shuffled into a...
Month: August 2017
37,884 sign up for CD breakaway party
DISSIDENT Democratic Change (CD) Deputy José Muñoz, in less than three months has collected the signatures necessary to formally...
Corruption charges mount for Martinelli fugitive sidekick
WHILE EX-PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli sits behind bars in a Miami detention center during extradition proceedings, his former private secretary remains...
Cocle traffic death brings years total to 260
A 52-YEAR-OLD woman was killed and two men hospitalized when a truck carrying animal livestock plunged from a bridge in...
Miami mayor says sick Martinelli needs to be with family
MIAMI’S, Republican mayor, Tomás Regalado, has sent a letter on official letterhead to Judge Edwin Torres of the Southern...
Conjunctivitis epidemic records 10,646 cases
Conjuntivitis epidemic records 10,646 cases AS CASES of viral conjunctivitis soared towards 11,000 Panama’s Ministry of Health (Minsa) on Wednesday,...
Working foreigners without permits to be sent home
ONLY 19,000 of the 70,000 foreigners whose immigration status was regularized during the previous administration have formalized their labor status...
OPINION: Panama’s last hope for justice
La Prensa, August 2 The Public Prosecutor's Office has managed to overcome a major obstacle to completing investigations into the Odebrecht...
Deputy facing Odebrecht probe hangs tough
PANAMA’S Chamber of Commerce, has added its voice to the expanding chorus of community leaders calling for the removal of...
Justice Alliance welcomes $220 million Odebrecht deal
THE CITIZENS ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE (Alliance Pro Justicia), an organization that brings together some twenty Panama Civil Society groups has...
Ex-president mentally prepared for long extradition battle
Ex-president Ricardo Martinelli is “mentally prepared for an extradition lasting "one year minimum" and even to that time in prison,...
Odebrecht to pay Panama $220 million fine
THE ODEBRECHT Construction Company will pay a fine of $220 million to Panama according to an agreement signed on July...
