Countdown begins for Canal 100th anniversary celebration
THURSDAY AUGUST 15 marked two important days in the history of Panama, the 494th anniversary of the founding of the...
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9 month delay kills airport contract
PASSENGERS at Tocumen International Airport are going to have to wait longer before they see moving walkways at the North...
New bridge plans escalating land prices
The interest in reverted properties, especially in the Pacific, has increased due to the shortage of available land for building...
Sweetheart deals for company close to presidential candidate
ANOTHER contract scandal is slowly being unveiled as details of sweetheart awards to a company directed by the sister- in...
Citation call over multiple contracts blocked by CD
THE RULING BLOC of Democratic Change (CD) has voted down a call to bring administrator of the Authority Micro, Small...
CD presidential candidate gave no bid contract to relative
Although officials are prohibited from hiring relatives related companies, the CD presidential candidate handed a direct contract to his sister-in-law...
Conference underway to flesh out rules for Nicaraguan Canal
IT APPEARS that no grass is growing under the feet of the players in the proposed construction of Nicaraguan Inter-Oceanic...
Metro Subway and Buses wont solve traffic problems ATTT
DAYS after President Ricardo Martinelli claimed that the opening of Panama’s first subway would ease traffic flow in the city...
Electoral Tribunal suspends CD attack ads
ELECTORAL Tribunal (TE) Judge Heriberto Araúz on Monday August ordered the suspensión of advertisements by the CD against PRD presidential...
19 Cubans to get asylum in Panama
PANAMA IS giving asylum for “humanitarian” reasons to 19 Cuban citizens currently being held in The Bahamas. (more…)
Ministers spending makes fired ombudsperson look small time
THE BIG TIME spending and selective of Panama’s recently fired former ombudsperson is peanuts compared to the contracts handed...
Detained N Korean freighter awaiting UN inspectors
The work of unloading the North Korean ship detained in Panama with undeclared Cuban weapons on board concluded Sunday,August 11,The...
