Migrant smugglers seized
SIXTEEN members of a transnational network of people smugglers who offloaded migrants in Panama have been captured by Colombian authorities....
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102 bookings for new canal locks
THE PANAMAMA Canal Authority (ACP) has already received 102 requests for ships to use the new set of locks that...
University rectors controversial real estate deals
REAL ESTATE deals with land owned by the University of Panama (UP) made by its long serving rector Gustavo García...
WORLD VIEW: The Holocaust and hypocrisy
By Jonathan Power TOMORROW MAY 4 is Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust was committed by a nation whose church...
OFF THE CUFF: Varela to talk of Panamas honest men
PRESIDENT Juan Carlos headed to Washington, On Monday May 2 to address the annual Conference of the Americas on...
Prosecutors eyeing Martinelli era airport deals
THE CORRUPTION spotlight involving members of the Zero (inner) Circle of former president Ricardo Martinelli has moved to Tocumen International...
New census of pirate buses as numbers mount
AS PIRATE BUSES continue to proliferate on Panama City streets, The Transport Authority (ATTT) is planning a census .The one...
Three in fiery crash among 8 road deaths
TWO YOUNG parents and their five-yar-old child died in a horrific accident on Sunday May 1, when their car skidded...
Rains evacuate cinema, flood capital streets
HEAVY RAINS in Panama’s capital forced the evacuation of a cinema, and flooded many streets on Sunday, May 1. Among...
Whistleblower who fingered Martinelli gets country jail
MAYTE PELLEGRINI the ex Financial Pacific (FP) employee who blew the whistle on links of former President Ricardo Martinelli and...
MEDIA WATCH: A flock awaiting orders
Hoyporhoy: La Prensa, May 1 THE LEGISLATURE, by constitutional mandate, exerts essential functions to ensure the balance of the Panamanian...
Fugitives appeal denied in Martinelli wiretap scandal
PANAMA’S WIRETAPPING scandal continues on its ponderous crawl through the courts as defense lawyers continue their attempts to throw roadblocks...
