6,943 Seizures By Food Safety Authority
Panama’s Food Safety Authority (AUPSA), made 6,943 seizures food seizures of food that entered Panama illegally during 2017. The seizures...
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President And Family Abroad For New Year
WHILE the country wrestles over the choices to replace retiring Supreme Court judges, and the National Assembly credentials Committee sits...
Chaotic debate over new judges
If Ana Lucrecia Tovar de Zarak and Zuleyka Moore are ratified as Supreme Court judges, their lack of independence would...
Society owes debt to anti-corruption prosecutor
"A magistrate with a vocation and a record of anti-corruption struggles is preferable to more prominent lawyers but indifferent to...
New Year sees 6.5% wage increase
Some 292,000 Panama workers will get a 6.5% pay raise on January 1 bringing the minimum wage in all provinces...
Court Nominees Cynical Setback
THE DESIGNATIONS of the anti-corruption prosecutor Zuleyka Moore and the specialist in banking and finance, Ana Lucrecia Tovar de Zara,...
OFF THE CUFF: Heel dragging justice
THE TRIALS of four corruption cases involving irregularities in the National Assistance Program (PAN), in the government of Ricardo Martinelli,...
Hope for Alzheimers Patients
By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM In 1901, Auguste was taken to an insane asylum in Frankfurt, Germany, by her husband....
OPINION: A court of snitches and lackeys
The selection, by the Executive, and the confirmation in the National Assembly of the magistrates of the Supreme Court of...
First Poland-Panama direct flight lands at Tocumen
A PLANE carrying tourists made first the direct airline flight from Poland to Panama on December 25, and landed at...
The American Dream – growing inequality?
By Jonathan Power Every so often reports emerge that attempt to measure which are the best countries to live in....
Million dollardrug bust off Chiriqui
OVER a ton of drugs in 1,067 one kilo packages were seized from a high-speed boat on Christmas Day by Panama’s National...
