Bigger, more comfortable Metro buses
THE FIRST 20 new buses that will be introduced into the Metro Bus system arrived in Colon on Friday, October...
Month: October 2017
Judge rules jailed Martinelli in absentia
EX-PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli who marked his fourth month behind bars awaiting extradition on Thursday, Oct 12, is now facing another...
OPINION: US More than Bravado and Swagger
THE UNITED STATES decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Science and Culture (Unesco), is...
Assembly decision: Panama crisis
THE DECISION of a National Assembly committee to dismiss a criminal complaint against three Supreme Court judges, on Thursday, Oct.12...
MEDIA WATCH: How Republicans Got Trump Wrong
GOP leaders assumed the president’s campaign-trail rhetoric would give way to Washington realities—the trajectory they’d followed themselves writes McKay Coppins...
5 human trafficking suspects detained
FIVE SUSPECTS allegedly involved in a people trafficking network have been detained on the order of a judge at a...
Money laundering set back for ex-Minister
A SUBMISSION of constitutional guarantees presented by former Minister of Social Development, Guillermo Ferrufino, and Martha Elyna Herrera Marcos, facing...
Soccer holiday blocks surgeries. appointments
SOME 2,700 medical appointments, including scheduled surgeries, in the Social Security System (CSS) alone, were cancelled because of the “unexpected”...
Deputies nix complaint against judges
The Credentials Committee of the National Assembly, rejected on Thursday, October 12, a criminal complaint filed against Supreme Court judges...
Private sector backlash to snap holiday
AN EARLY morning snap decision by President Juan Carlos Varela to declare Wednesday, October 11 a public holiday because Panama...
Sea Point developer getsgo ahead
THE ON AND OFF- controversial Sea Point construction project in Paitilla is underway once again with the revoking by the...
Free Zone laments soccer holiday
NOT EVERYONE was happy with President Juan Carlos Varela’s declaration of a national holiday following Panama’s clinching of of a...
