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The Panama Airbnb Bubble: Why Short-Term Rentals Are Failing Investors 
French Canadian Couple Survives a Violent Attack While Visiting Panama 
Weather Insanity in Chiriqui and Neighboring Provinces This Week 
Brothers out Hiking Got Lost on Picacho Hill in Chiriquí 
Journalists testify in Mossack Fonseca probe
Three La Prensa journalists who participated in the global investigation into the leaked files of Mossack Fonseca have been summoned to...
Court upholds fines on Martinelli linked brokers
PANAMA’S Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Superintendency of Market Securities (SMV) over massive personal fines imposed on...
IRS opens Panama Papers file
+THE UNITED STATES Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has opened a file on the ‘Panama Papers’ revelations of millions of files...
China plans to use North-West Passage
CHINA IS PLANNING to use the sea route linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans through the Arctic polar waters and...
OFF THE CUFF: France prods Panama for help as Paris meeting looms
FRANCE has joined the growing number of countries prodding Panama to respond to requests for assistance in investigating cases of...
Ex-security bosses get cell release
FORMER Public Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino, who has been behind bars in preventive detention since September is now under country...
Switzerland asks Panamas help in Odebrecht corruption probe
SWISS AUTHORITIES have asked Panama for assistance in an investigation of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, the recipient contracts...
Panama inks $2.6 billion deal for Metro Line 3
PANAMA has concluded a deal with Japan for the $2.6 billion financing of Metro Line 3, using Japanese monorail technology...
US opens criminal investigation into Panama Papers
THE UNITED STATES Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the revelations of the International Consortium of Investigative...
WORLD WATCH: No Saddam Hussein-Al Queda links
By Jonathan Power President Barack Obama has observed, “ISIL is a direct outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq that grew...
Canadian expats get another shot at right to vote
CANADIANS who have lived in Panama for more than five years, and are unable to vote in Federal elections, have,...
CLIMATE CHANGE: March temperatures set new high record
LAST MONTH was the warmest March on record and the eleventh consecutive month that the record temperature has broken, an...