Year ends with accident record intact
Panama ended the year with a repeat of the daily accident rate of well over 100 spread across the country...
Month: December 2017
Head on crash kills one injures 24
ONE PERSON died and 24 were injured, several seriously, in the head-on collision in Chepo, on Sunday morning, December 31....
12 dead in Costa Rica plane crash
A PLANE carrying 12 people crashed shortly after takeoff in Costa Rica, killing the two pilots and 10 passengers on...
Transparency body probes “all in the family” jobs
THE TRANSPARENCY and Access to Information Authority (Antai) have handled 310 complaints from Dec. 2014 to Nov. 2017 about government...
OPINION: Nepotism, A Government Cancer
A MODERN STATE cannot allow its officials to name their relatives in the entities under their charge, to the detriment...
Panama Listed Ship Held in UN Sanctions Probe
A PANAMA registered tanker suspected of violating UN sanctioned by selling oil to North Korea, has been detained in a South...
200 Firemen Fight Free Zone Blaze
OVER 200 firefighters. From Colon, Panama and the Canal Authority (ACP) battled for more than eight hours overnight to control...
MEDIA WATCH: The fall of a Human rights icon
TMS News Service -The world is a mess. Wars are devouring civilian lives. In the United States and elsewhere, populist...
Money transfer fronts uncovered
TWO VENEZUELAN owned front companies running illegal money remittances operations in Panama have been slapped with $100,000 fines. They were...
Lane reversals on Trans-America highway
LANE REVERSALS were introduced on the Pan-American highway at noon on Saturday, December 30 to ease traffic congestion as scores...
Capira Traffic Death Starts 5 km Traffic Jam
The death of a 35-year-old man, struck by a bus loaded with passengers on the Pan-American highway in Sajalices, in...
Probe of airport parking scam to continue
THE SEVENTH Criminal Court has rejected a move by lawyers of the former head of Tocumen International Airport. Juan Carlos...
