Nicaragua canal construction starts Dec 22
Nicaraguan officials say construction of the $50 billion canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans will start on December...
Newsroom Panama
HEALTH WATCH: Smartphones lead to back pains
The hours spent hunched over mobile phone screens each day are causing an "epidemic" of bad posture and putting us...
Former Minister property seizure
FORMER MINISTER Guillermo Ferrufino, under investigation for alleged offenses against the public administration and possible unjust enrichment, has had some...
Panama to play role in $25 million Italian bribe case
PANAMA has been admitted as the offended party in the Italian international corruption case against Valter Lavítola and Paolo Pozzessere...
Financial Pacific scandal a media invention — founder
Financial Pacific scandal a a media “invention” -- founder THE SCANDAL surrounding Financial Pacific (FP) and the disappearance of the...
Specs for new childrens hospital well advanced
SPECIFICATIONS for a new tender for construction of a Children’s hospital to replace the degraded Hospital del Nino are being...
More allegations of Martinelli connection with suspended scandal brokerage
MAYTE PELLEGRINI, the only one currently under arrest in the Financial Pacific (FP), embezzlement scandal again referred to the linkage...
Call for transparency pact to fight corruption
CATALINA BOTERO, a former member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has proposed that Panama implement a "transparency pact"...
$10 minimum for prepaid corridor cards
THE MINIMUM payment for prepaid corridor cards will rise to $!0 on December 1 says the National Highway Company. (more…)
OFF THE CUFF: Panamas Corruption Carousel
INFAMOUS -The former private secretary of ex- President Ricardo Martinelli, has described reports of a protected witness that he was...
From Mansion to cell and handcuffs
THE FORMER high flyer who headed The National Aid Program (PAN) has exchanged his million dollar mansion in Costa del...
Recovered corruption money for social projects
WHILE former president Ricardo Martinelli tweets that the present government is moving too slowly, his successor Juan Carlos Varela was...
