Year: 2020
Plum direct contract to polish “austerity” presidency image
As Panama faces a major blow to the economy brought on by the COVID-19 crisis the government which before the...
Prosecutors will continue probe of ventilator and other pandemic buys
The resignation of Juan Carlos Muñoz as vice minister of the Presidency will not halt the investigation Opened by the...
WORLDVIEW: Returning America to Number One
By Jonathan Power It might seem that the world is going to pot in a hand-basket. Not quite true. There...
OPINION: The threat of insider corruption
Never more than now have we needed to believe that the government is working for our interests and that every...
Presidency VP resigns after ventilator pricing storm
The anticipated resignation of Vice Minister of the Presidency Carlos Muñoz in the center of the overpriced ventilator scandal was...
Virus tests and recoveries on upward swing
For the third day in a row, tests for coronavirus passed the 1000 mark with 1,192 on Sunday, April 26...
After ventilator fiasco, president demands transparency
In the wake of mounting reports of rash spending by government entities under cover of the pandemic National Emergency, President,...
Wild West facemask pricing during COVID-19 pandemic
Suplidora Doble A, a company registered during the Martinelli presidency (2009-14) to participate in government tenders, such as supplying office...
Disappeared patch on Panama Bay under investigation
Ministry of Environment (Miambiente) staff moved along the Matasnillo River on Monday, April 27 to check the source of a...
Moment of Truth for President Cortizo
The coronavirus pandemic will result in a high cost, not only health, but economic. The Government has asked for billions to...
