Ex-tax boss continues embezzlement trial stall
Panama’s former top tax collector Luis Cucalón facing charges of embezzlement, former director of the General Directorate of Revenue, withdrew...
Month: October 2017
Free Carols by Candlelight concert marks 7th year
By Margot Thomas CAROLS by Candlelight which has become an annual Christmas season curtain raiser for thousands of Panamanians, who...
Top judge denies Assembly non-aggression pact
PANAMA’S controversial Supreme Court president has attacked the widespread perception that there is a non-aggression pact between the court and...
First neopanamax cruise ship enters canal
WITH OVER 3,000 passengers aboard on Thursday, Oct 26, The "Caribbean Princess" became first neopanamax cruise ship to pass through...
OPINION: When justice abets impunity
COURTs have been given the infamous task of dismantling cases of high profile corruption. First, the case of the Finmeccanica...
WORLDVIEW: Making Americans Losers
The administration’s single-minded pursuit of unilateralism in trade policy – as seen in the withdrawal from the TPP and seeking...
Martinelli seeking deal with prosecutor
EX-PANAMA president Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal, approaching his fifth month behind bars in a Miami Detention center awaiting extradition is seeking...
Rape and decapitation suspects detained
A BUS DRIVER and two of his assistants linked to the beheading of a woman, whose body was thrown into...
Mixed results from unfocused transport strike
THE TRANSPORT strike called by the National Chamber of Transport (Canatra) for Wednesday, October 23, barely affected the metropolitan area...
20 road blocking truck drivers arrested
AT LEAST 20 heavy-duty truck drivers were arrested on Wednesday morning, October 25 in the province of Colón. They had...
Stunning entertainment and lingering “Memory”
By Margot Thomas YOU DON’T have to be a cat lover to enjoy the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but if...
Assembly splurge on five Prados cut to three
Federal Comptroller Federico Humbert acknowledged Tuesday that he recommended that the National Assembly buy the vehicles for the board of...
