BARRO BLANCO: Indigenous leaders want to talk to bosses
INDIGENOUS leaders have decided to walk away from the dialogue with government “assistants”over the Barro Blanco hydroelectric project. (more…)
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More fiddling with PAN instrument deals
PRICES of musical instruments climbed the scales to hit the high notes when sold to the National Assistance Program (PAN)....
University rector heading for Assembly grilling
AN OBSTRUCTED AUDIT of the University of Panama Foundation (FUDEP) HAS prompted the National Assembly to summon the embattled rector...
OFF THE CUFF: PRD infighting infects Assembly
DISSENSION inside the PRD party has spread over to the National Assembly and, for a second consecutive week, the National...
Four years jail for cop who beat up doctor
A National Police sergeant who went berserk and beat up a Panama doctor has been jailed for four years. (more…)
Ex-Brazil president helped Odebrecht inflate costs in Panama – prosecutor
BRAZIL’S former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) is being investigated for influence peddling to benefit the Odebrecht construction...
Plans in hand for restoration of Panama’s historic forts
Panama has made "little progress" in the conditioning and restoration of Portobelo and San Lorenzo monuments, in Colon and the...
Police mocked burning teens
DAVID SUAZO, one of two survivors of a fire that incinerated five teenagers in a junvenile detention center has described...
$180 million to kick start decentralization program
PANAMA is on the cusp of a decentralization program that will see $180 million transferred to municipalities for investment in...
Hit men attempt to kill PAN scandal witness.
TWO HIT MEN on a motor cycle attempted to kill a key “protected” witness in the National Assistance Pogram (PAN)...
Singing ex-PAN boss from jail to high end hospital
THE FORMER director of the National Assistance Program (PAN) Rafael Guardia Jaén, whose testimonies in numerous cases of alleged embezzlement...
Blocking newspaper distribution said peaceful protest
CHARGES against five workers of the construction company Transcaribe Trading (TCT) who used trucks to block the offices of La...
