Your Morning Smile 
Quick Reads for Sunday November 2nd and Monday November 3rd 2025 
Wife and Daughter of Suntracs Leader Arrested in Boquete for Alleged Money Laundering 
Panama Honors the Logistical Pulse of Panama: The Railway 
Panamanian Residents of Taboga Prevented Tourists from Disembarking 
Property tax withholding begins in January 2019
Beginning in January, Decree 362, (withholding of property tax) will be charged by banks or financial entities where the clients...
Thousands line up for $8 Christmas hams
Thousands of people were in line on Wednesday, December 5 at the 125 Naviferias (Christmas Fairs) organized by the Institute...
Meryl Streep to star in Panama Papers movie
Meryl Streep will star in "The Laundromat," a drama directed by Steven Soderbergh on the Panama Papers scandal, that focused...
Varela, Martinelli, and more called as Italian bribery witnesses
PRESIDENT VARELA and a bunch of key players in the previous administration have been called as witnesses in a case...
Sex trafficking madam gets 15 years
Colombian citizen Melaines Hernández who headed a network on Avenida 12 de October dedicated to trafficking women for sexual exploitation...
US Justice Department swoops on Mossack Fonseca quartet
Mossack Fonseca, the Panama Law firm whose principals were advisors to President Varela when the Panama Papers scandal erupted is...
Pedestrian killed by ambassadors car
Vicente Rogmanolly, 67, died after being run over on Avenida Balboa, near the Hospital del Niño early on Sunday, December...
China and Panama sign 28 cooperation agreements
Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the president of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, signed 28 agreements on Monday, December 3 with...
Martinelli fugitive sons each get $1 million bail
Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares the fugitive sons of Panama’s former president Ricardo Martinelli wanted to face multi-million...
10 years for $3 theft – political multi-million thieves walk free.
WHILE high profile members of the previous administration accused of stealing scores of millions walk free or receive bail and return...
WORLDVIEW: The end of interstate wars
By Jonathan Power We need jaw jaw not war war”, said Winston Churchill rather hypocritically. Still, he would be glad...
Prosecutor wants protection lifted for CD presidential candidate
The Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor 's Office is trying for the second time to get lifted the electoral shield that safeguards people...