Logistics, A Central American Fetish
WHILE IT’S MONEY in the pocket for every grandstanding politician and every wannabe business consultant, logistics in Central America is...
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Suspended bank customers in limbo
CUSTOMERS of the parent company of Banco Universal in the city of David worried about their deposits, are organizing to...
Martinelli side-kick to return to face the music
ADOLFO "CHICHI" de Obarrio, the former private secretary of Panama’s ex-President, Ricardo Martinelli, will return to the country in October,...
BACKBACK SCANDAL: High delivery costs for non-deliveries
POULETT MORALES, a high end boutique owner arrived at the office the Second Anticorruption Prosecutor on June 3, fashionably dressed...
Minister promises no road through national park.
“NO ROAD will be built using Cerro Hoya National Park," said Environment Minister Mirei Endara on Saturday June 6, adding...
Doctor and assistant jailed after plastic surgery death
A doctor, and her assistant, practicing in Chiriqui, have been sentenced to prison terms for the death of a young...
300 held after back to school rumba
AN ALL NIGHT “back to school” rumba (party) in the Brisas del Golf area of Panama City led to the...
$63 million cost overruns on uncompleted highway
A report by the National Assembly Committee on Public Infrastructure and Canal Affairs estimated that the expansion of the Arraiján-La...
Lawyer mad at president as ex-Minister detained,
AFTER 15 HOURS of questioning by the Third Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Zuleyka Moore, Óscar Osorio, former minister of Agriculture Development during...
Suspended bank refused order to freeze accounts
BANCO UNIVERSAL, whose operations were suspended on Friday, June 5, refused to comply with a request of the third Anti-Corruption...
COLLECTIONS SCANDAL: Bank accounts holding millions seized
PANAMA’S fourth anti-corruption prosecutor has ordered the seizure of accounts linked to Cristóbal Salerno and Luis Cucalón as part of...
OFF THE CUFF: Tocumen income up 6% as cookie jar closed
REVENUES at Tocumen S.A., the company that operates Tocumen International were up 6.1 percent in the first quarter of 2015...
