Storm over Odebrecht crooks and Panama contracts
PANAMA’S Transparency and Access to Information Authority,( has joined the growing storm of demands for investigation of the contracts between...
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Backpack scandal suspect a flight risk
THE RESPITE granted to Poulett Morales when she was transferred from a detention cell to a private hospital on Thursday,...
Closing of Albrook Airport facing opposition
Opposition to the closure of Albrook Airport as part of the planning for a fourth bridge over the Canal continues to...
Dodger Corcionne urged to face prosecutor music
WHILE THE BOARD of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has no "power" to suspend from office one of its members,...
Health insurance reception set for Boquete
PANAMA’S CanadaPLUS Club is following up its recent Health Insurance reception and seminar at the Union Club in Panama...
Panama sex workers welcome decriminalization move
AN AMNESTY International (AI) resolution requesting the decriminalization of prostitution and all aspects of the sex trade, including pimping, has...
Supreme Court to study deputies dodge-the-bullet law
FOUR COMPLAINTS filed against the so-called shield law that protects investigations of deputies in the National Assembly will be combined...
Taboga oil cleanup 90% complete
THE OIL SLICK that has closed beaches in Taboga and threatened the island’s tourism industry is 90 percent complete. The...
Backpack corruption suspect hospitalized
CORRUPTION SUSPECT, and boutique owner Poulett Morales was hospitalized on Thursday, August 13, at a private clinic in Panama City....
Former tax chief moved to El Renacer prison
Luis Cucalón, former head of the government’s tax collection department, accused of crimes of embezzlement by paying commissions of $47...
Irrigation bribery scam nets 12 suspects
THE NET hauling in people allegedly connected to a bribery scam in which the previous government paid $37.4 million for...
Panamas role in Odebrecht bribery scandal
AS BRAZIL’S investigation into its multi million dollars bribery scandal involving construction company Norberto Odebrecht evoves,Panama has surfaced as the...
