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Panama Holiday Calendar: Days Off Start Next Week 
Panama Demands UN to End US Blockade of Cuba 
Zulay Rodríguez Reached a Financial Agreement in the Gold Bullion Case 
Amid Shouts and Protests Deputies Approve 2025 General State Budget 
More investigations into alleged Government scams
PANAMA’S Forth Anti-Corruption Prosecutor has opened four new investigations into alleged irregularities and cost overruns in construction and services paid...
U.S. Coastguards seize 1,493 kilos of cocaine off Guna Yala,
HOPE II, a vessel flying the Panama flag and carrying more than 1,493 kilos of cocaine was arrested in international...
OFF THE CUFF: Fast track auditing and “pumping up” Oscar
FAST-TRACK Rogers Forensic Auditors, the company that won the tender to audit the National Assistance Program (PAN), will have six...
OFF THE CUFF: Forensic audits and sleepless nights.
A FORENSIC AUDIT of the National Assistance Program (PAN), will cost the taxpayer $850,000, and some former public servants and...
Mayor turns sights on liquor laws
PANAMA MAYOR, J osé Blandon is expanding his crusade to bring some of the cty’entertainment and liquor sales centers into...
Martinelli spending spree fuels move to raise debt ceiling
WHILE increasing social spending and delaying the removal of the electricity subsidy, the Varela government has asked for a raise...
OFF THE CUFF: Self promotion or schools?
THE MONEY spent on advertising by the previous government could have paid for the building of 23 quality schools at...
Insecurity outweighs incentives for foreign investors
INSECURITY is still the main factor preventing the arrival of larger flows of foreign direct investment in Central America say...
Helicopters rented at double going rate among dozens of PAN irregularities
DOZENS of irregularities have been discovered in the spending of $.1.2 billion in four years, by the previous director of...
OFF THE CUFF: Martinelli accuses President Varela of bullying
THE SECURITY detail of former president Ricardo Martinelli shrank from 46 bodyguards to 12 on Wednesday, September 3 when a...
Martinelli clear winner in hand-out stakes
Martinelli clear winner in hand-out stakes FORMER PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014) spent $55.7 million in discretionary payments, without being accountable...
150 homeless following Colon fire
OVER 150 people were made homeless by a fire that destroyed two buildings in Colon in the early hours of...