Varela dodges Ayu Prado re-election issue
PRESIDENT Juan Carlos Varela, who, before his inauguration had included Supreme Court President, Jose Ayu Prado among those whose resignation...
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The tangled record of re-elected Supreme Court president
AGAINST ALL ODDS, Judge Jose Ayu Prado was re -elected president of the Supreme Court (CSJ), on Monday, January 4...
MEDIA WATCH: Justice system circles the wagons
Hoyporhoy, La Prensa, Jan,5 EVERYTHING CHANGES to remain the same. Where are the promises of new justicea to restore the credibility of...
CD deputies reject Martinelli ultimatum
RICARDO MARTINELL’S iron fisted grip on the party he founded received a damaging blow on Tuesday, Jan.5, when deputies refused...
Arrested embezzlement suspect appeals bail denial
LAWYERS for Mayer Mizrachi, wanted in Panama on embezzlement charges and arrested in Colombia last week on an Interpol red...
WORLD VIEW: Time to leave Middle East to its own devices
By Jonathan Power THE YEAR’S first major atrocity- Saudi Arabia’s execution by beheading on Sunday of 47 people, including an...
Three bus collisions in 48 hours
A COLLISION that sent two buses hurtling into a ravine in the area of El Nazareno de La Chorrera on...
Civil society shocked by Supreme Court president re-election
THE RE-ELECTION of Jose Ayu Prado as president of the Supreme Court for another two years the day two new...
Customs authority SCOOPS up $52,9 million extra
PANAMA'S Customs Authority raised $1.471 billion dollars in 2015, $52.9 million more than the previous year. The authority said the 3.7%...
Two new judges take office
TWO NEW Supreme Court judges Ángela Russo and Cecilio Cedalise were sworn in by President Juan Carlos Varela on Monday...
One complaint against Martinelli rejected
ONE OF ELEVEN criminal complaints against ex-president and current Central American Parliament (Parlacen) Deputy Ricardo Martinelli, has been rejected by...
Canal expansion consortium told less talk, more work
THE GUPC consortium that won the contract for the Canal expansion project, already more than $1 billion over budget, and...
