US negates Martinelli escape route
Former Panama President Ricardo Martinelli could be prosecuted for as many as a dozen cases that are not related to...
Year: 2020
Panama’s unique tool to stall justice
The electoral criminal jurisdiction remains an exaggerated and unnecessary shield against justice. As are the electoral rules, from the moment...
Prosecutor gets 5 months to close Panama’s biggest corruption probe
Prosecutor Zuleyka Moore has been granted five more months to complete investigations into the Odebrecht bribery scandal after a Superior...
ENVIRONMENT: NY and London mayors urge fossil fuel action
Bill de Blasio of New York and Sadiq Khan of London on Tuesday, January urged every major city in the...
Job and water protests bring chaos to Colon streets
Chaos reigned for nearly six hours in Colón on Tuesday, January 7 as protestors simultaneously closed key thoroughfares to demand...
Panama stays on French tax haven list
France has updated its list of tax havens including the removal of Guatemala, but Panama remains. "Despite the dialogue, the...
Ex-legislator charged with. embezzlement. laundering
Former Panamenista legislator Adolfo Beby Valderrama was formally charged Tuesday, January with money laundering and embezzlement , to the detriment...
$4.5 billion water supply plan
After years of failed promises by different administrations to fix Panama’s perennial; drinking water problems, the government of Laurentino Cortizo...
WORLDVIEW: Three thons in Cgina's side
By Jonathan Power In the Chinese government's eyes, it has three rebellious parts of China on its plate – Tibet,...
$257,000 cash haul buys 5 years jail time
Two people found with $257,672.36 stuffed in two suitcases and a piggy bank on January 3 are behind bars...
Christmas tree collection points open Thursday
Three collection points for Christmas trees will open on Thursday, January 9, says the Urban and Home Cleaning Authority (AAUD)....
Canal water woes worst in 70 years
2019 ended with the fifth-lowest amount of rainfall in the last 70 years in the Canal Hydrographic Basin, with a...
