Ex-security bosses get cell release
FORMER Public Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino, who has been behind bars in preventive detention since September is now under country...
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Switzerland asks Panamas help in Odebrecht corruption probe
SWISS AUTHORITIES have asked Panama for assistance in an investigation of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, the recipient contracts...
Panama inks $2.6 billion deal for Metro Line 3
PANAMA has concluded a deal with Japan for the $2.6 billion financing of Metro Line 3, using Japanese monorail technology...
US opens criminal investigation into Panama Papers
THE UNITED STATES Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the revelations of the International Consortium of Investigative...
WORLD WATCH: No Saddam Hussein-Al Queda links
By Jonathan Power President Barack Obama has observed, “ISIL is a direct outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq that grew...
Canadian expats get another shot at right to vote
CANADIANS who have lived in Panama for more than five years, and are unable to vote in Federal elections, have,...
CLIMATE CHANGE: March temperatures set new high record
LAST MONTH was the warmest March on record and the eleventh consecutive month that the record temperature has broken, an...
MEDIA WATCH: The “sincerity” of a pirate apology.
By Emily Yahr, Washington Post, April 18 CELEBRITY apologies are endlessly fascinating, partly because they’re generally so insincere — and also...
Panama slips into Mossack Fonseca cruise control
WITH BOTH Panama’s President and Vice President out of the country on foreign missions, the government appears to have dampened ...
Clock running for Odebrecht in Colombia
“THE CLOCK is running in Colombia “for the Brazilian company Norberto Odebrecht which has until May 11 to ensure the...
OFF THE CUFF: War on drugs and shell companies
VICE PRESIDENT and Foreign Minister Isabel Saint Malo de Alvarado is in New York to participate in the session special...
Marathon runner brings Panama Olympic qualifiers to 5
THE 28-YEAR-OLD Chiricano runner Jorge Enrique Castelblanco who on Sunday, April 17, in Hamburg Germany became the first ever Panamanian...
