Over 1000, restaurants call it a day
Burdened by fixed costs and a disappearing customer base over 1,000 Panama restaurants have permanently closed their doors leading to...
Month: July 2020
ENVIRONMENT: Corporate giants move on climate change
Microsoft Corp. reported that the first investment for its $ 1 billion climate fund will go to venture capital firm...
FBI piles on details of Martinelli sons laundering probe
The United States FBI continues to provide more details of suspicious financial transactions by Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli...
Martinelli gets psychiatric check as problems mount
When a psychiatrist with close ties to former president Ricardo Martinelli signed a 60-day disability certificate one of the reasons...
Ex- president faces third marathon grilling
Former President Juan Carlos Varela left the office of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor investigating Odebrecht bribes at 7.15 pm on...
MEDIAWATCH: A Wartime President
By Rodrigo Noriega, La Prensa History is the mother of the essential disciplines for a political analysis. In the current...
Lawyers for Martinelli brothers have clouded resumes
Two of the six lawyers hired in Guatemala to help the sons of former president Ricardo Martinelli fight extradition, to...
ENVIRONMENT: Extinction of polar bears looming
Climate change could mean before the near extinction of polar bears, unable to feed when ice sheets disappear in the...
Ex-president faces third money laundering pro
Following on two previous marathon investigations totaling over 30 hours former Panama president Juan Carlos Varela arrived at the offices...
New virus treatment could be major breakthrough
The preliminary results of a UK clinical trial suggest a new treatment for Covid-19 reduces the number of patients needing...
Promising UK and Chinese Covid-19 vaccine projects
Two Covid-19 vaccine projects, one British and the other Chinese, were shown to be safe for patients and elicited a...
Panama a Dying Democracy?
The two-pronged assault on press freedom in Panama via the country’s notoriously “susceptible” justice system has produced few reactions from...
