HEALTH WATCH: Even children getting gastric by-passes
By Michael Greger MD WEIGHT LOSS surgery for children and adolescents is becoming widespread and is being performed in children...
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OPINION: Audit delays let thieves off hook
Hoyporhoy, La Prensa July 19 Approximately 72 cases of high profile corruption cases are stalled in the investigation or judicial processes,...
Ex-university rector faces anticorruption probe
THE FORMER rector of the University of Panama Gustavo García de Paredes who has been linked to several investigations of...
Clandestine rentals mop up tourists, hit hotels
APARTMENT owners who do not pay taxes on “clandestine” tourist rentals account for 20 percent of visitor room occupancy in...
Highway blocking truckers face sanctions
DUMP TRUCK drivers who blocked the Corridor Sur for four hours on Tuesday, July 18 got a cool reception from...
Truckers block highway for four hours
OVER 80 dump trucks blocked the Corridor Sur for four hours on Tuesday, July 18., causing major traffic disruption and leading...
Martinellis $20 million bail bid rejected
PANAMA’S FUGITIVE ex-president t Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal, detained in Miami since June 12 while awaiting .extradition has raised his bid...
2 dead 18 injured in traffic incidents
PANAMA’S HIGHWAY death toll this year is hovering around the 260 mark, while injuries total thousands. The provinces of Chiriquí...
Presidential candidate on corruption hot seat
FORMER CD presidential candidate José Domingo "Mimito" Arias, appeared before the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor for the fourth time to on...
WORLD VIEW: When words become crimes
By Jonathan Power CHINA since 1793 and the mission of Earl Macartney, emissary of King George II, has kept...
$20,000 in garbage fines
NEARLY $20,000 in fines from The Urban garbage authority (AAUD) was slapped on 44 companies for bad waste disposal in...
Traveling judge requests audit
JUST 24 HOURS after revelations of the amount of money spent by some of Panama’s jet setting judges, the Supreme...
