Witness security worry postpones Odebrecht plea deal
THE Thursday, April 16 public court hearing to validate cooperation plea deals with anti-corruption prosecutors in the Odebrecht bribery scandal...
Month: November 2017
OPINION: Panama Dreamto nightmare
Politicians - who must be the guardians of state finances - are the worst managers of the public purse. If they...
Visits restricted for photo-op detainees
SOME of the smiles may have disappeared from the faces of a gang of high profile detainees at the El...
OFF THE CUFF: Papal Lamborghini aiding Iraq victims
A LAMBORGHINI Hurricane given to Pope Francis on Wednesday, November 15 won’t be around when he visits Panama for World...
$400,000 payout for police murder of visiting kids
THE FAMILY of two children, gunned down by a police officer during a visit to relatives in Panama will receive...
Copa Airlines ground staff set strike date
THE Trade Union representing Civil Aviation and Similar Industries workers (Sielas), which represents the ground staff of Copa Airlines delivered a...
Business leaders swell China bound team to over 60
AT LEAST 47 businessmen, bankers and lawyers will accompany President Juan Carlos Varela and his team of some 17 government ministers...
More plea bargains and citizen protests
PANAMA’S Twelfth Criminal Court will hold a further approval hearing on Thursday morning November 16, this time to ratify a...
18 medical staff injured in bus crash
EIGHTEEN Ministry of Health personnel including doctors, dentists nurses and technicians were hospitalized on Monday, November 13 when the bus...
WORLDVIEW: Trumps Great Relationship
By Jonathan Power WHEN Donald Trump stretched his hand across our television screens on Sunday to shake the hand of...
Martinelli sons claim cooperation attempts rejected
THE TWO sons of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli who were named last week as prime operators in a criminal network soliciting...
Bribery revelations mute persecution mantra
PANAMA’S former president, multi-millionaire Ricardo Martinelli, cynically campaigned on the slogan “In the Shoes of the People” and then with...
