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505 Kilos of Cocaine Seized in Nuevo Emperador, Arraiján, Panama 
Using Death as a Symbol, Suntracs and Other Groups Protest Against CSS Reforms 
Panama Government Proposes a 3-Year Increase in Retirement Age 
Passenger Arrested for Trying to Open the Door of a Copa Plane During Landing 
15 saved from blazing cruise yacht
Panama’s Naval Air Service (SENAN) rescued 15 people from a blazing pleasure cruise on Saturday morning, January 4, in the...
ENVIRONMENT: Appeal against protected island set to fail
Moves by the Taboga Municipal Council to resuscitate its dream of enabling an oil installation on Isla Bona, which has...
Panama teacher jailed 18 years after child pornography raids
A Panama school teacher arrested during a seven-country anti-child pornography operation was sentenced in San Miguelito on Friday, January...
OPINION: Political payback behind police firing?
THE NEW YEAR started with fury in the National Police. Unfortunately, the object of this feeling does not seem to...
New comptroller’s well-connected flock
Gerardo Solis who has wandered through the corridors of power as an Electoral Tribunal judge, presidential candidate, and deputy has...
US Embassy Head of Mission moves up
Roxanne Cabral, who was Head of Mission of the United States Embassy in Panama since the Ambassador resigned over conflict...
Ex-deputy embezzlement hearing again suspended
Former Panmenista deputy Adolfo Beby Valderrama arrived for a hearing on Friday, January 2 for the alleged misappropriation of funds...
Senior cop fired without pension
National Police (PN) Commissioner (PN), Jacinto Chinto Gómez, was dismissed from his post on Thursday, January 2. The police disciplinary...
Uber and Cabify win court battle to accept cash payment
Uber and Cabify users will be able to pay cash after Panama’s Supreme Court (CSJ) declared void, the prohibition of...
Old guard names Supreme Court President
With a five to four, majority of the old guard, Judge Luis Ramón Fábrega was elected president of Panama’s Supreme...
OPINION: Productivity off the table
Some 290.000 workers will benefit from the increase in the minimum wage, which is 3.3% on average. The increase ranges...