OPINION: Panama Justice on the skids
The case of wiretapping is being taken towards a dead end. The in-depth hearing chaired by a suspect judge has...
Month: April 2019
Ex-Ombudsman facing embezzlement trial
The Anticorruption prosecutor Javier Miter Burgos has requested a call to trial Panama’s former Ombudsman Patria Portugal for alleged embezzlement...
Rescue boss gets citizen assistance
Jose Ddonderis The director of the National Civil Protection System (Sinaproc), an organization dedicated to assisting citizens in trouble got...
Retrograde tobacco bill to get Varela veto
After outcries from The Ministry of Health (Minsa), cancer centers and NGO’s President Juan Carlos Varela has promised to veto...
Pirate buses warned off Metro routes
Pirate bus owners have been warned that they cannot operate on the same routes as the Metro buses and the...
Supporters bused in for no-show capo
Scores of CD Party supporters were bused to the Electoral Tribunal in Ancon on Tuesday, April 9 but Ricardo Martinelli...
6 bids for Isla Colon facelift
Six companies have submitted tenders to The Panama Tourism Authority (ATP) for the design and construction of the tourist revitalization...
San Carlos fishermen get tourism boost
A project to equip the beaches with facilities such as bathrooms, showers, parking lots and a perimeter wall was presented...
“Gringo pedophile has US crime sheet
A man described by local media as the Boquete Gringo pedophile in detention charged with rape and abuse of...
Sick kids hospital staff have had enough
Doctors, nurses, technical and administrative staff of Panama’s children’s hospital Hospital del Nino took to the street near the aging...
