Panamas jet setter top judge away again
PANAMA’S jet-setting chief justice José Ayú Prado, who between trips abroad manages to find time to complain about the increasing...
Month: December 2017
Multiple suspect gets fresh court delay
Former Panama vice-president, Felipe Pipo Virzi, facing criminal charges in multiple cases once again wriggled free of his day in...
Transparency Int demands airport boss exit
Carlos Duboy, the director of Tocumen, S.A. the company that runs Panama’s international airport has an "obvious conflict of interest."...
Direct city contract in 400% inflation probe
A company under investigation in Spain for inflating the cost of training programs in four Panama provinces by 400%, got...
OPINION: Tears for a kidnapped country
ONCE again, it is confirmed that the public contracting regime exists to facilitate waste of the resources that belong to everyone. The...
WORLDVIEW: The highjacking of Jerusalem
By Jonathan Power POETS as diverse as William Blake and Yehuda Amichai have sung the praises of the heavenly Jerusalem,...
Ex tribunal judge joins appeal against Odebrecht ruling
Lawyer and former Electoral Tribunal (TE), judge Guillermo Márquez Amado, presented an appeal on Monday, December 11 for third-party involvement before...
Copa brings Colorado holidays closer
COPA AIRLINES has moved 26 ski and summer resorts closer to Panama with the introduction of direct flights to Denver....
Supreme Court rejects Martinelli challenge
THE PLENARY of Panama’s Supreme Court (CSJ) “rejected outright” a challenge by the lawyers of ex-President Ricardo Martinelli, to set aside...
Airport boss admits Odebrecht campaign donations
AS PRESIDENT Juan Carlos Varela seeks to distance himself from “donations” from the Odebrecht construction company which since his election...
Panamas disappearing pirate buses
PANAMA’S pirate buses, loosely labeled “alternative transport” are slowly disappearing from the streets of Panama’s capital, according to the Transit...
OPINION: Diplomacy more than Trump impulses
The Middle East is one of the regions in the world where most armed conflicts have developed in recent times....
