Private medicine boom in Central America
A 15% INCREASE in the demand for private hospitals in Central America and Panama is expected for this year, because...
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Panama Pacifico getting new investment incentives
PANAMA’S NEW government is making moves to increase the attractiveness of investing in Panama Pacifico by promoting a bill that...
Teachers still awaiting pay increase from Martinelli era
THE OUTGOING Comptroller of Panama has been sitting on the pay increases granted to certified educatos by the Ministry of...
Government promises 232,000 new jobs
PANAMA plans to create at least 232,000 jobs over the next five years, of which 68 percent will be technical...
173 countries visit Panama in September
VISITORS from 173 countries went through the Tocumen International Airport during the month of September this year says a report...
OFF THE CUFF: Former tourism irregularities go to prosecutor
THE PROFLIGATE spending habits of former Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP) boss Salomon Shamah are under the microscope and 12...
CD dirty tricks suspect confined to Panama
A FORMER Deputy Minister of Commerce, linked along with former high level government figures to a call center using government...
Martinelli manipulated Petaquilla shares, Shamah asked for $1million – witnesses
MAYTE PELLEGRINI the only person to be charged in the Financial Pacific (FP) $14 million embezzlement scandal,, insisted, under oath,...
Financial Pacific “links with power sectors”
THE SHADOW of thie Financial Pacific (FP) scandal continues to lengthen and has now fallen on a failed credit union....
Panama examining financial exchange strategy
WHILE Panama remains one of a shrinking group of countries that have not signed an international agreement on the exchange...
Back stage maneuvering to choose comptroller
WITH OVER a score of candidates bidding for the post of Panama’s comptroller there are divisions down party lines and...
OFF THE CUFF: Electoral reform finally gets an airing.
A BUNDLE of proposed changes to Panama’s electoral system sat on the shelf throughout the Martinelli years and was never...
