New transmission lines
PLANS FOR the construction of a new 330 km electricity transmission line with a $550 million price tag are moving...
NEWS
Cosy Ochy deals revealed by Martinelli lawyer
DAVID OCHY, owner of Transcaribe Trading (TCT), whose trucks once blocked delivery of the La Prensa newspaper is back in...
Varela to offer Maduro crisis aid
PANAMA’S President, Juan Carlos Varela, plans to call his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, to help find a solution to the...
Predators destroy protected habitat
THE HABITAT of crustaceans, national and migratory seabirds and the black iguana have been destroyed in a protected mangrove swamp...
ENVIRONMENT: Help bees, help humanity
Bees are important; together with other less known insect pollinators, they pollinate three quarters of the crops we grow in...
IFF: Canal treaty docudrama attracts buyers
BUYERS are circling around Annie Canavaggio’s upcoming Panama Canal docudrama “1977, The Treaty: Son of Tiger and Mule,” which will...
Panama film maker plans president TV series
By Margot Thomas THE MOTTLED history of Panama’s presidents and their act-alikes around Latin America leaves me wondering why a...
Panama wiretap trial behind closed doors
THE UPCOMING TRIAL of two of the key players in the Martinelli era Panama wiretap scandal will be behind closed...
Martinelli helicopter seized in Mexico
A HELICOPTER allegedly purchased with money laundering funds by one of the sons of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli, has been seized...
The benefits of fugitive life
LIFE ON THE RUN for the two sons of former Panama president Ricardo Martinelli, is eased by an Aladdin’s cave...
Early metro subway users frustrated
THOUSANDS of early users of the Panama Metro subway had to revert to buses and taxis to get to work...
Brazils House of Cards man jailed 15 years
THE FORMER president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha, who masterminded the ousting of left-wing President Dilma Rousseff,...
