Business groups eye sanctions for Blue Apple members
PANAMA’S Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (Cciap) and the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (Capac) have instructed their ethics committees to...
Year: 2018
Toughening law forembezzlement suspects
PANAMA’S Attorney General is drafting a law for presentation to the National Assembly that will allow the publishing of the...
Virzi bros postpone another court hearing
A MONEY-LAUNDERING hearing involving former Vice President Felipe Pipo Virzi, and 11 others was suspended for the second time by...
Spectacular crash crushed taxi, no deaths
A SPEEDING heavy truck hit and crushed a taxi sending both vehicles into a ditch with no fatalities to add...
Ex-bank VP faces bribery probe
THE FORMER Vice President of Factoring and Surety of Global Bank, Joaquín Rodríguez Salcedo, a key figure in the Blue...
Ex-Ministers among 33 in Blue Apple scandal
Details of the operation of the multi-million “Blue Apple” bribery scandal involving cabinet ministers and officials of the Ricardo Martinelli...
TRUMP HOTEL PANAMA: A Deal Gone Sour
THE ATTEMPT to remove Donald Trump’s hotel company from the management of the hotel in Punta Pacifica has turned into a...
Teacher activist dies in rollover
A 61-year-old educator and teacher activist Robin Castillo was killed in the late afternoon on Sunday, January 14 when the...
16 injured in bus collision
SIXTEEN people were injured following a collision between a pickup and a bus, in Herrera on Monday afternoon, January 15....
Bail Deals Appealed In High Spirit Laundering Case
BAIL bonds granted to money laundering suspects linked to the notorious High Spirit account at the failed Financial Pacific (FP)...
Captain Of Boat With Three Deaths, Impaired
THE CAPTAIN of the Bocas Del Toro boat that sailed in an overcrowded boat in bad weather leading to the...
Embezzlement Suspect Granted $5 Million Bail
Daniel Ochy Diez director of Transcaribe Trading (TCT), facing trial for alleged embezzlement of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), related...
