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Court rejects Guardia defense move.

January 3, 2015

PANAMA’S Criminal Court has rejected a request by the defense lawyer of Rafael Guardia the former director of the National...

Coronado accident slows highway traffic

January 3, 2015

A MORNING collision between a taxi and a Nissan Xtrail on theTrans-America highway in the region of Coronado injured an...

50 fired as latest corruption scandal emerges

January 3, 2015

SOME 50 people have been dismissed at Panama’s Ministry of Social Development (Mides), after the discovery of scams in the...

Petaquilla Minerals misses financial filing deadline

January 3, 2015

PETAQUILLA MINERALS the troubled Canadian mining company that has been extracting gold in Panama since 2009, has failed to...

Transformation coming to Public Prosecutor’s Office

January 2, 2015

Transformation coming to Public Prosecutor's Office PANAMA’S new Attorney General Kenia Porcell de Alvarado intends to "transform" the Public Prosecutor's...

OFF THE CUFF: Martinelli soap opera script arrives

January 2, 2015

PANAMA’S Minister of Public Security, Rodolfo Aguilera announced Friday, January 3 that he has received a 5000 page copy of...

Seven traffic deaths mark Panama New Year

January 2, 2015

FIVE people died in Panama traffic accidents on the first day of 2015 and another two were killed early Friday...

Varela to fight corruption, impunity, election abuses

January 2, 2015

MALEFACTORS in the administration of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli will get little comfort from President, Juan Carlos Varela’s, new year message...

CD candidates got election scholarship bonanza

January 2, 2015

THE INSTITUTE for Training and Development of Human Resources (IFARHU), is the latest institution to come under investigation for alleged...

Immunity lifted on CD candidate

January 2, 2015

THE ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL has lifted the immunity from prosecutionof former Democratic Change (CD) candidate in Herrera, Heriberto 'Yunito' Vega. (more…)