Pele bribery investigation widens
IN THE MIDST of expanding investigations into alleged bribery by a company which obtained a controversial contract with the Panama...
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The smile that marked history
IT’S AN IMAGE that has been circling the world on the Internet since Jamaican sprinting phenomenon, USAIN BOLT crossed the...
WORLD VIEW: Japan the new way forward
By Jonathan Power THE ANNOUNCMENT was made Sunday by Japan’s Finance Ministr, that in the last quarter of the year the...
MEDIA WATCH: City planning crumbs
Hoyporhoy, La Prensa Aug, 15 THE MULTI-MILLION urban development plan that the Municipality of Panama has launched as a strategy...
Canal director faces bribery reports
THE PUBLIC Ministry has opened an investigation of a member of the board directors of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP),...
Panama-Colombia trade war escalates
THE WAR OF words and reciprocal taxation threats between Panama and its southern neighbor, Colombia, continues to warm up. The...
New hotel adds 300 rooms in crowded market
AT A TIME when Panama’s hotel industry gives signs of imploding, with occupancy rates barely over 40 percent, a Colombian...
OPINION: Making America great again
Charles Mercieca, – TRANSCEND Media Service WHEN the time arrives for national elections in the United States, most of the...
New canal locks register 100th transit
A SOUTH KOREAN ship became the hundredth vessels to pass through the new Panama Canal locks, part of the expanded...
Migrant tensions return to Panama
TENSIONS are rising once again on the Panama-Costa Rican border as Costa Rica police are taking Cubans and Haitians to...
32 corrupt cops fired this year
THREE OFFICERS involved in the prison corruption scandal were fired from the National Police(PN) after an internal hearing on Friday...
Pay deductions called forbacksliding deputies
INDEPENDENT deputy, Ana Matilde Gómez, has called on the National Assembly president Ruben De Leon and the nation’s comptroller to...
