Colon gears up for black day of protests
Another day of protests organized by the Committee for the Salvation of Colon will start at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday,...
Year: 2018
STRIKE :Construction guild oks new pay offer
After six months of negotiations which ended with a strike of 90,000 construction workers the representatives of the employers’ guild...
Officials blasted for coverage of pistol-packing child
A PANAMA lawyer lashed out on Wednesday, April 18 at local media and social networks that carried detailed information about...
Lawyer suspectin doubleclient murder
A WOMAN lawyer accused of the murder of a 42-year-old Panamanian woman and her 76-year-old Italian partner whose bodies were...
Work stoppage at 260 construction sites
THE NEW Tocumen Air Terminal and Metro Line 2 are among the major projects affected by the strike called by...
When Fake Rings True
Millions of US taxpayers who waited until Tuesday, April 17 to file their 2017 tax returns and make payments through...
Minister knocks employers as strike talks collapse
AFTER 17 HOURS of talks with the leaders of 90,000 construction workers set to strike at 7 a.m. on Wednesday,...
Government pledges public order on Wednesday
PANAMA’S Minister of Government, María Luisa Romero, has promised that public order will be guaranteed. on Wednesday, April 18 if...
Varela names wall that must be built
THE TRUMP organization committed an error in writing to President Juan Carlos Varela requesting his intervention in a dispute over...
Construction workers reject 2 cents an hour raise
Social networks in Panama are alive with conflicting views on the actions of members of the construction workers union (Suntracs)...
WORLDVIEW: Negotiation not bombs
By Jonathan Power 500,000 dead and counting. President Bashar al-Assad is going full blast at reducing the parts of his...
Leaders haggle as workers take to streets
WHILE thousands of members of the Construction and Allied Workers Union (SUNTRACS) took to the streets across the country...
