Minor raped and made pregnant by uncle
An 11-year old girl became pregnant after being raped by her uncle in the community of Boca de Río de...
Month: February 2020
Panama Canal implements water tax on ships
Ships passing through The Panama Canal began paying a water tax of up ro $10,000 on Saturday February 15. For...
Police Commissioner and Lieut Believed Linked to Killer’s Jail Break
A National Police Commissioner of the National Police (PN) have been suspended from their posts while investigations continue into whether...
Metro Line 3 tunnel will be 50 meters under Canal
The four km tunnel to carry Metro Line 3 under the Panama Canal will have a depth greater than 50...
Megacities face extreme weather as Antarctica gets record high temperatures
Over 20 degrees! Heat records multiply in Antarctica and new studies warn of the risks posed by the warming of...
Panama’a quarantined students return home Sunday
The quarantine period of 72 scholarship students who arrived in Panama from China on February 2 is drawing to a...
Police hunt for couple linked to escaped killer
Armed with search warrants the National Police and the Public Prosecutor's have seized in a house in the district of...
Probe continues into ex-ambassador’s links to Odebrecht scandal
The Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's questioning of Jaime Lasso, Panama’s former ambassador to South Korea, over links to the Odebrecht bribery...
Judge rules out bail for Martinelli’s fugitive former secretary
Bail is not on the cards for the fugitive former private secretary of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli said Panama judge on...
Escaped mult-killer recaptured in Chiriqui
Multi-murderer Gilberto Ventura Ceballos whose escape from a top security cell in the La Joyita prison complex led tp the...
Raid nets 1,637 drug packages. four traffickers
A raid by combined personnel of the Public Ministry and the National Aeronaval Service (Senan) in the area of Punta...
Panama returns to EU tax haven black list
Just two weeks after Brexit The 27 member states of the European Union (EU) have added Panama and the British...
