Construction workers back on job with fatter pay packets
Panama Construction workers will be back on the job with a fatter wage packet at 260 projects at 7 a.m....
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Panama makes first official presidential Palestine visit
Juan Carlos Varela became the first Panamanian president to officially visit Palestine when he met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
MEDIAWATCH: 34 Bishops resign over sexual abuse scandal
Chile’s bishops have offered to resign en masse over a sexual abuse and cover-up scandal that has embroiled Pope Francis...
Infastructure deadlines loom as strike talks continue
The 30 days of strike by construction workers will not change the scheduled date for the opening of Terminal 2...
HEALTHWATCH: How Much Proof Do We Need to Eat Healthier?
By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM Randomized placebo-controlled trials are considered the gold standard of scientific evidence. In such studies, half...
First low-cost airline leaving Panama skies
Panama’s first low-cost airline, Vivacolombia that has ferried hundreds of thousands of passengers to and from Colombia over the last...
OPINION: Strike creating only losers
The strike that has paralyzed the construction sector is now 30 days. old. Although the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (Capac),...
Varela promises closer ties with Israel
"Panama plans to expand opportunities for young Panamanians to go to Israel to prepare for careers in agriculture, technology and...
Pushback against Assembly president
ALONGSIDE growing public criticism of the actions of National Assembly president Yanibel Abrego in refusing the admission of a forensic audit...
Martinelli return bombshell defused
SALES of Panama’s La Estrella likely took an upward surge on Wednesday, May 16 when apage front-page headline announced the voluntary...
Assembly heads to court to block cookie jar fraud audit
WITHIN three hours of blocking the office of Panama’s Comptroller General from a forensic audit of a multi-million dollar cookie...
OPINION: An Independent Republic of Thieves
Yesterday, the National Assembly declared itself as an independent republic to which the laws of the Panamanian State cannot be...
