Decision time: Panama a victim in bribery scandal?
PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli has until Friday, June 27 to make one of the major decisions of his term in office....
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DNA tests show remains in Bocas del Toro are of missing girls
DNA TESTS on the skeletal remains found in Bocas Del Toro show that they belong to one of the two...
Panameista Party seeking 3-year “governance” alliance
THE PANAMEÑISTA Party has proposed a "governance" alliance with the PRD in the National Assembly of at least three years,...
Direct contract port concessions languishing
NOT ONE of Panama’s container port concessions awarded by direct contract between 2012 and 2014 is under construction, raising concerns...
TE seeking evidence of government spending to support candidate
THE ELECTORAL Tribunal (TE) began an in depth investigation of “social projects” in the municipality of Rio de Jesus, in...
PRD-Panameista governance pact on the way
THE PRD and Panameñista parties are set to form a “governance pact” in the National Assembly, with a PRD legislator...
Anti-corruption crusader names Panama man as drug capo
COLOMBIA'S Customs Director, while announcing his resignation ecause of threats against his family after his crusade against corruption and tax...
Assembly Budget Committee deathbed spending spree
IN THE DYING DAYS with its hands on the public purse, the Budget Committee of the National Assembly has approved...
Killer, 29, gets 40 years jail sentence
A 29-YEAR-OLD taxi driver, Aristides Adan Lorenzo González, was sentenced to 40 years in jail on Thursday, June 27 today...
Businessman smuggled drugs from Panama in frozen fish – report
A MEMBER of the government who is also a powerful business person was involved in an operation smuggling cocaine in...
Lavitola had great friendship with Martinelli – Berlusconi
FORMER Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday June that Valter Lavítola was the person who "facilitated business relations between...
Spy chief in Panama not victim of political persecution
THE TERRITORIAL asylum granted by the President Ricardo Martinelli to the former head of Colombia’s spy chief, María del Pilar...
