Panamas 5.8% GDP leads region
PANAMA'S GDP continues to lead the region and remains the envy of much of the world. according to a...
Month: September 2017
Former tax boss exits hospital to jail
THE FORMER head of the Directorate General of Revenue (DGI), Luis Cucalón, ended his two year sojourn avoiding justice in...
OPINION: Third World habits
IN PANAMA it is preferable to inaugurate new works rather than give maintenance and good care to those existing. How to...
CD deputies and businesses got kickbacks
EIGHT companies that received checks totaling $3.4 million from the company that got the contract for the extension and rehabilitation...
WORLD VIEW: Looking for cities built for man
By Jonathan Power “WHAT did these vain and presumptuous men intend? How did they expect to raise their lofty mass...
US prosecutors oppose Martinelli extradition stall
The Miami prosecutor's office is opposing a request from the lawyers of former Panama president Ricardo Martinelli for federal judge...
US ambassador condemns attack on Attorney General
THE US Ambassador to Panama has issued a strongly worded denunciation of an article in a Panama newspaper containing what...
Ex-top tax collector clings to hospital bed
LUIS CUCALÓN as former Director General of Revenue was Panama’s chief tax collector (DGI), is now facing embezzlement charges for...
Pirate bus kills one, injures 13
A PIRATE bus in the hands of a driver with no public service driver training on Saturday, August 9, brought...
Cabinet dilemma with Metro airport extension
PANAMA’S cabinet must decide whether to approve an $125 million addendum to the Metro line 2, for the construction of...
OPINION: Turning a blind eye to looting
EVERY DAY there are more revelations of the looting of national coffers by a group of entrepreneurs close to the...
