Protestors to stay put at Barro Blanco
WHILE the government has optimistically announced that testing of the Barro Blanco hydro electric project is close to beginning, ...
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OFF THE CUFF: Panamas jet setting deputies rival judges
WHILE DISCUSSIONS in Panama’s National Assembly are sometimes stalled over lack of a quorum , few of the deputies who...
Future of $309.5 million cold chain boondoggle uncertain
THE FUTURE of Panama’s Cold Chain, another unfinished Ricardo Martinelli flagship project is still uncertain, as the present administration continues...
146 face money laundering charges in Panama
WHILE PANAMA struggles to refurbish its image in the wake of the Mossack Fonseca and Waked family scandals, both containing...
WORLD VIEW: Six reasons (not) to love Kissinger
US ELECTION: Six reasons (not) to love Kissinger By Richard Falk TMS News Service. THERE IS an irony that would...
Deteriorating Martinelli era apartments for repair
PROTESTS by residents about the deterioration of the highly touted Urban Renewal apartments in Curundú have borne fruit with an...
Comptroller stymied in audit of boondoggle university project
PANAMA’S comptroller general says that it had difficulty getting information from University of Panama (UP) Rector Gustavo García de Paredes...
MEDIA WATCH: When a state body becomes private fiefdom
Hoyporhoy La Prensa, May 22 THE RECTOR of the University of Panama (UP) acts as if this state institution is...
Walls tumble for Mossack Fonseca
THE FIRST MAJOR local victim of the Panama Papers scandal is the financial division of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm...
Easing preventive detention does not mean suspect off the hook
THE CHANGING by judges of a preventive detention order to house or country arrest is not the end of the...
Former world title holders plea gets TKO
JUDGE Rolando Quesada Vallespi has rejected a request by lawyers for former Panama world boxing champion Celestino Caballero for a...
University in cross hairs of Attorney General
PANAMA’S Attorney General. Kenia Porcell, has set her team to work reviewing the the audit carried out by the Comptroller ‘General...
