Plundering lawmakers destined for court hearings
THE CORRUPTION investigation of lawmakers who used millions of public funds to get re-elected will be re-opened and cases against...
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Panama most popular at China travel show
PANAMA’S Tourism Authority and local travel operators are looking for a surge of Chinese visitors following The Guangzho, International Travel...
President back from Dubai to thorny issues
PRESIDENT Juan Carlos Varela returned from his bed of roses in Dubai to a local mattress of thorns including a legal...
Gas tank blackmail strike called off
A STRIKE set for Monday, March 5 by distributors of 25-pound gas tanks was called off at noon on Friday,...
Ship #3000, uses expanded canal locks
THE "MSC Caterina", sailing under the Panamanian flag became the 3000th neopanamax vessel to pass through the third set of locks...
Bomb blasted Panama Island Gets All Clear
Isla Iguana a Panama paradise island off the coast of Pedasi that has been a sanctuary for US unexploded bombs...
Diethylene Glycol poisoning 15-yr sentence stands
The Panama Superior Court of Appeals on Thursday, Mar 1, upheld the decision of a judge denying conversion of...
Panama prison hunger strike
A GROUP of prisoners in the La Nueva Joya Penitentiary Center are on hunger strike says The Ministry of Government,...
Public Funds Used To Buy Voters
AN INVESTIGATION by La Prensa into multi-millions of tax-payer dollars used in elections led to the 3 ½ year audit...
OPINION: Panama deservesbetter water system
THE SITUATION of the lack of drinking water in the last week in the capital city has served as a reminder...
OPINION: Deputies embezzling, money laundering
In the history of the Comptroller General’s Office, there had not been an audit as comprehensive and complete as the one...
National Assembly a rotten organ
FORMER Panama Comptroller José Chen Barría speaking on TVN News, on Wednesday, February 28 that the audits carried out by...
