Bar Association calls for action on $59 million bribes
PANAMA’S National Bar Association (CNA) has called for an investigation led by the Attorney General into dealings between the previous Panama...
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Government backs kickbacks probe
THE GROUNDSWELL of public outrage at the revelations of massive bribery of Panama’s governing elite by the Oderbrecht construction company...
Police officer said linked to $11.6 million heist
A POLICE LIEUTENANT was allegedly connected to the armed robbers who burst into the headquarters of the General Directorate...
Gasoline up 7 cents a gallon
GASOLINE prices will rise by 7 cents a gallon on Friday December 23, says the National Secretariat of Energy....
Penthouse endangering lives set for demolition
THE DEMOLITION of a penthouse in the Crystal condo tower in Bella Vista, will soon be on track following a...
Odebrecht paid $59 million in bribes to Panama in Martinelli era
BETWEEN 2010 and 2014, under the Ricardo Martinelli regime the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht paid $59 million in bribes to...
Threatened newspaper staff march on presidency
WITH ONLY two weeks to go before the expiration of the temporary operating license of the newspapers El Siglo and...
Panamas cruise terminal to be state run
THE CRUISE TERMINAL to be built on Perico Island on the Amador causeway will be state operated at the suggestion...
Police sergeant shot as thieves rob tax office
THE COLLECTION of cash payments at offices of the Directorate General of Revenue (DGI) across the country has been suspended.....
ENVIRONMENT: 43,000 turtle eggs saved from poachers
TURTLE EGG poachers have been thwarted by the actions of an environmental group that has collected some 43,000 eggs from...
OPINION Of Mice and Men and the death penalty today
By Stephen Cooper YEARS AFTER its publication John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men continues to stimulate debate, pro and con,...
Businessman linked to ex-Minister in laundering probe
FOTIS LYMBEROPULOSIS, the latest businessman insider to face interrogation linked to corruption during the Ricardo Martinelli regime, appeared before the...
