Intermediaries detail bribes transfer to ministers
THREE “Intermediaries have revealed how they funnelled bribery money from the Odebrecht construction company to two key cabinet ministers in...
Month: November 2017
OFF THE CUFF: Varela creates China cabinet
AS TOUGH QUESTIONS from civil society about the ruling party’s acceptance of “donations” from Odebrecht remaining hanging, the government of...
Varela facing Odebrecht donation questions
WHILE President Juan Carlos Varela is basking in the afterglow of his trade mission to China, Civil groups and other...
Martinelli resigning from Den of Thieves
EX-PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli who is approaching his sixth month behind bars, far removed f from his luxury waterside Miami mansion...
Real time justice, thievery, corruption
PANAMA’S justice system sits close to the bottom of the country’s assets, with the widely endorsed perception that corruption starts...
Air and Sea search for Canadian jet-skier
AN AIR and sea search is underway in Isla Contadora and the Las Perlas Archipelago for a 61-year-old Canadian whose...
Anti-crime speaker hid dirt money in Panama
A SPANISH police Commissioner scheduled to talk at a Panama forum on corruption at the Trump Tower Hotel this week...
VPs brother linked to Odebrecht, Martinelli sons
THE BROTHER of Panama Vice- president and Chancellor Isabel de Saint Malo is the latest high profile insider to be...
WORLDVIEW: Religious extremism not new
By Jonathan Power What drives people to extremes? Why do the people behind Wahhabism, Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (IS)...
113,000 Christmas trees Panama bound
THE FIRST batch of 113,000 Christmas trees from Canada and the US carried in 150 refrigerated containers has arrived in...
Navarro plans second presidential shot
JUAN CARLOS NAVARRO. former two-term Panama Mayor and 2009 failed presidential candidate is ready to throw his hat back into...
China to study Panama-Chiriqui rail link
ON THE HEELS of the news that Air China will be initiating two flights a week to Panama in March...
