Plea deal by front man in Odebrecht bribery
Andrés Mozes Libedinsky fingered as the possible front man for Frank De Lima Panama’s former Minister of Finance is negotiating...
Month: October 2018
Jailed ex-minister side steps interrogation
Panama’s Former Minister of Public Works already slapped with two preventive detention orders has once again decided not to risk...
Ex-Labor Minister heading to court in expenses scam
Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's announced on Wednesday, October 24, the continuation of the case against former Labor Minister Alma Cortés and six other ex-officers...
OPINION: Panama’s Presidential dalliance
The current period of ordinary sessions of the National Assembly is only six working days, or eight, if the deputies...
12th anniversary of Panama bus inferno
Twelve years after Panama ’s most horrific transit tragedy when 18 people including children were incinerated in a flaming bus in...
Ex-Panama banker pleads guilty to laundering $1.2 billion
A German-born banker, formerly operating in Panama, has pleaded guilty in Miami, Florida, to helping launder $1.2 billion from the...
Police sergeant and two robbers dead in gun battle
A POLICE sergeant and two gang members were killed in a gun battle following the robbery of a gas...
Panana Canal and people urgently need more reservoirs
WHILE the trade war has not yet affected the Panama Canal its future depends on the water supply that maintains...
Entrepreneurs still betting on tourism
While Panama’s tourism figures continue to lag and hotels restaurants and entertainment centers have laid off workers there is still a...
BOOK REVIEW: The Hell of Good Intentions
By Jonathan Power At last a book that attacks the “Blob” and holes it...
