MEDIAWATCH: Trumps Rush to Judgment
By Scott Ritter (in The American Conservative) While Russian (and Syrian) claims of innocence regarding the alleged chemical weapons attack...
Year: 2018
Japanese company takes over Panama distributor
The shakeup in Panama auto distributorships continues with the announcement that the Japanese group ITOCHU Corporation is now the majority...
Ex-Ministers laundering hearing delayed 30 days
A call to judgment for former Minister of Social Development Guillermo Ferrufino and other defendants including his wife for alleged...
Anti-corruption probe into $300 million social security scam
The Public Ministry (MP) has initiated an investigation into Panama’s latest corruption scandal: the embezzlement of $300 million in employer-employee...
Diethylene glycol prisoner denied early release
THE FORMER director of Panama’s Social Security Fund (CSS), will stay behind bars until month’s end after a compliance judge,...
Panama auto sales continue downward plunge
The sale of new automobiles in Panama continues to plummet with a fall of 10.5 percent in the first two...
OPINION: Panamas privileged public servants
The definition of place of residence has different versions: one for ordinary citizens and another for candidates for popularly elected...
Varela returns to country in turmoil
PRESIDENT Varela has returned to Panama from the Summit of the Americas where he signed on to a spoken agreement...
After 2 years no court date for $12.3 million scam
ALMOST TWO YEARS have elapsed since anti-corruption prosecutors sent to the judicial branch their investigations into 61 suspects in a...
Canal pilots call for tugboat dialogue
The Panama Canal pilots have called on the directors of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and tugboat captains to establish...
OPINION: Panamas ammo challenge
On Wednesday the sanitation program of sites contaminated with unexploded ordnance, an environmental legacy of the American military activities in...
Meco makes Blue Apple collaboration deal
The Costa Rican construction company MECO signed a collaboration agreement with the Sixth Prosecutor's Office, investigating the “Blue Apple” bribery...
