Police swoop nets 24 restaurant marauders
POLICE made another 11 arrests on Thursday, August 22 ,during a Panama Province-wide sweep to track down members of the...
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Communication breakdown as 37 die in hospital
WHILE the Social Security Fund(CSS) has a sole director who handles both health issues and finances it will be difficult to prevent outbreaks like the one that left...
Ethanol free gasoline ok from Aug. 22
HOURS AFTER a published report that consumers of auto fuels in Panama will have to continue to use gasoline with...
Investigation into $8 million scholarship election bonanza
AN INVESTIGATION has been opened into the delivery of over 20,000 “scholarships” by the Martinelli government during the election campaign....
13 restaurant marauders now in detention
FIVE MORE suspects with alleged links to the criminal network that has led a series of assaults on restaurants and...
Hospital boss discovered killer tragedy on the news
WHEN THE DIRECTOR of the Social Security Fund (CSS), Guillermo Sáez-Llorens, appeared before the National Assembly on August 13, to...
Panama speeding land auctions to plug revenue holes
PANAMA’S Ministry of Economy and Finance, facing multiple challenges as it unravels the books of the Martinelli administration, is considering...
Chiriqui tragedy kills 10, injures, 116
A LARGE natural reservoir that formed on top of Picacho hill, in La Amistad International Park (PILA), led to the...
Assembly calls for firing of “incompetent” comptroller
AFTER two days of grilling in the National Assembly of Comptroller Gioconda Torres de Bianchini, government and opposition deputies who...
New restaurant security program follows raids
THREE OF THE FOUR men identified in connection with robberies and assaults on customers and owners of 11 restaurants in...
Pepper spray in Assembly as comptroller sidesteps questions,
IN HER SECOND day before the National Assembly, Panama’s Comptroller Gioconda Torres de Bianchini provided only limited responses to questions...
12 tigers in Chiriqui not public danger – ANAM
TWELVE CAGED tigers in La Estrella de -ugaba, Chiriqui are not a danger to the community, says the National Environmental...
