OPINION: Supreme Court enabling crisis
It is difficult to reflect on the terrible role played by the Supreme Court in the drama between the National...
Year: 2018
Panamas Alonso Edward wins 100 meter gold in South America
Panamanian sprinter Alonso Edward won Panama’s first gold medal in the 100 meters at the 11th South American Games in...
Independent legislator welcomes audit, PRD blames President Varela
A day after The National Assembly ejected officials from the office of the Comptroller General, attempting to audit staffing contracts...
OPINION: The chance to bring Assembly thieves to heel
For the first time in the 115 years of Panama’s republican history, the National Assembly has been subject to audits...
Panama lawmakers treasury plunder includes 31-day Feb.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars deposited in different banks, 9 family members on the payroll and payments made for work...
Lawmakers’ honey pot closed,auditors evicted
The skirmishes between Yanibel Ábrego, president of Panama’s National Assembly and the Comptroller General, Federico Humbert erupted into an open...
Prosecutor challenges justice dodging electoral ploy
The controversy between the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) and the Electoral Tribunal (TE) over Panama ’s controversial practice of impunity...
MEDIA WATCH: Teen led first UK all female terrorist cell plot
A teenage girl has been found guilty of planning a gun and grenade attack on London’s British Museum as part...
$31 million add-on for bribery linked group
An addendum of $30.8 million added to the contract signed between Constructora Meco, S.A. and the Ministry f Public Works...
OPINION: Panama Bread today, hunger tomorrow
The executive branch wants the National Assembly to authorize a fiscal dispensation to spend 300 million dollars more, in order...
Varela vetoes contract cancellation bill
President Juan Carlos Varela has vetoed as “unconstitutional” a bill passed by the National Assembly in April, that repealed a government...
Panama highway carnage continues with 147 deaths
Panama’s daily highway carnage continues with 147 fatal victims of traffic accidents nationwide by June 2, alongside thousands of injuries...
