Your Morning Smile 
CKD is Chronic Kidney Disease – You need to Reduce Phosphorus and Potassium – Lets See What Your Nephrologist Considers of Healthy Fruits and Veggies 
Are You a Diver? Panama will Host an International Diving Congress 
The Bad Weather Continues. Panama’s Sinaproc Warns of Adverse Maritime Conditions on Both Coasts 
Panama’s President Mulino Described the Publication of a Local Newspaper Story as Morbid and in Bad Faith 
WORLD VIEW: Concentrating prosperity
By Wim Naude URBANIZATION and entrepreneurship go together, like a horse and carriage, but, like love and marriage, the relationship is...
IMF lowers Panama growth forecast
PANAMA’S GROWTH rate projection for this year and next has been downgraded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but it...
New water plant to serve 143,000
BIDDING for the construction a of new water treatment plant in Gamboa, that is projected to serve 143,000 users opened...
Corralled tax dodgers boost state income
GOVERNMENT efforts to reduce evasion boosted tax revenues, the main source of income, by 10.3 percent in the first seven...
Complaints on Judges travel jaunts nixed
A COMPLAINT filed against several jet setting judges of the Supreme Court for irregularities in their travel expenses was dismissed...
Former garbage boss facing four charges
UNIFORMS costing more than $450,000 for garbage truck workers, we paid for and never delivered according to Public Ministry prosecutors....
WORLD VIEW: Israels self absorption
By Jonathan Power THE MANY world leaders who gathered in Jerusalem last week for the funeral of Shimon Peres, the...
Hospital site 30 km from electricity grid
TEN COMPLAINTS about hospital projects with alleged “irregularities,” have been filed with the Public Prosecutor's Office by the Ministry of...
Panama Pacifico airport to double capacity
THE PANAMA PACIFICO airport terminal will double its capacity over the next three years to attract more budget airlines and...
Presidential palace to get $9.3 million face lift
MINISTER of the Presidency Álvaro Alemán has rushed to justifiy the $9.3 million-dollar plan to renovate the Presidential Palace (Palacio...
Panama Papers net Mexican tax man $21 million
MEXICAN TAX officials have retrieved $21 million from customers of Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca who were identified in an...
100 Chiriqui homes flooded, schools closed
SCHOOLS were closed and at least 100 houses affected by flooding when heavy rains caused the Colorado River in Chiriqui...