OPINION: President skips country in crisis
Today Panama faces a moment of frustration and indignation at the irresponsible behavior of the organs of the State, each...
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Panama awaits Varela signature to Zero Waste bill
PANAMA produces the second largest daily amount of garbage per capita in Latin America and recycles only five percent of...
Hearing begins into jail system corruption
THIRTEEN people have been called to a Monday, March 26 hearing into corruption in Panama’s Penitentiary system. The hearing...
Teachers protest unready schools, education budget
PANAMA schoolteachers and administrators are planning a major demonstration to draw attention o the many schools in the country that...
190, 000 working Panamanians in survival mode
While Panama has the highest Gross Domestic Product(GDP) per capita over 190,000 of its working citizens are living on the...
OPINION; Art of prediction and tech backlash
By Celia Hannon FORECASTING is a fool’s errand, so why we do fallible humans persist in trying to peer into...
World Youth Day Count Down Clock Inauguration
A CLOCK that will make the countdown to the celebration of the World Youth Day (WYD), in Panama in January...
President and First Lady head for Amman, Rome
WITH Panama’s Assembly and the Government administration facing what has been described as a constitutional crisis President Juan Carlos Varela,...
Two appeals as drug bust subject off the hook
TWO APPEALS have been file against a Judge’s decision to annul the filing of charges for alleged money laundering...
Government shelters from plastic pools storm
PANAMA’S Government has distanced itself from the ill-chosen remarks of the director of the country’s Water and Sewage Authority (IDAAN),...
“Alarming” increase in Panama child sex crime
The increase in sexual crime against children in Panama is described as “alarming”, by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)...
Auditors to vet lawmaker contracts
A TEAM of auditors from the office of Panama’s Comptroller General will move to the National Assembly on Monday, April...
