Panama public bodies fail transparency test

NEARLY half of Panama’s public entities fail to comply with the transparency law that obliges them to publish key information on their websites says a recent report by the Transparency and Access to Information Authority (Antai).

According to the Antai, in January of this year, of a total of 122 institutions that have web pages 66 (54% comply with publishing on their sites 100% of the required public information.

Compared with the month of December, when 68 institutions had fulfilled 100%. the entities retreated in terms of transparency:

The report of the Antai highlights that only 18 institutions remain in the range of between 96% and 67% of compliance “which is still considered to be within the range and should improve”. The rest are below63% in compliance.