Prosecution team in line forelection scam probe
PANAMA’S Public Ministry (MP) has made its first moves to tackle the 220 boxes of files that arrived on its...
Month: March 2018
Panama flying on one engine needs more inclusion
PANAMA is like a plane flying on one engine and needs greater inclusion of the population in the generation of...
Punctuality Copa seeking 250 pilots
COPA AIRLINES company is searching for 250 Panamanian pilots “to fly the most modern and fastest growing fleet in the...
$759 million subsidies a gas-tank packer bonanza
The two companies that package the 25-pound gas tanks use in scores of thousands of Panama homes have a growing...
MEDIAWATCH: Banks forced to aid credit card debtors
BRITISH banks have been ordered to help people pay off their credit card loans, one of a series of new...
OPINION: Taxpayers feed gas distributors greed
IN ADDITION to the users, the 25-pound gas tank subsidy has made beneficiaries of the packaging companies and their distributor...
Plundering lawmakers destined for court hearings
THE CORRUPTION investigation of lawmakers who used millions of public funds to get re-elected will be re-opened and cases against...
Panama most popular at China travel show
PANAMA’S Tourism Authority and local travel operators are looking for a surge of Chinese visitors following The Guangzho, International Travel...
President back from Dubai to thorny issues
PRESIDENT Juan Carlos Varela returned from his bed of roses in Dubai to a local mattress of thorns including a legal...
Gas tank blackmail strike called off
A STRIKE set for Monday, March 5 by distributors of 25-pound gas tanks was called off at noon on Friday,...
Ship #3000, uses expanded canal locks
THE "MSC Caterina", sailing under the Panamanian flag became the 3000th neopanamax vessel to pass through the third set of locks...
Bomb blasted Panama Island Gets All Clear
Isla Iguana a Panama paradise island off the coast of Pedasi that has been a sanctuary for US unexploded bombs...
