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Ceasing Mining Activity Raised Unemployment in Coclé, Columbus (Colón) and Chiriquí 
Ceasing Mining Activity Raised Unemployment in Coclé, Columbus (Colón) and Chiriquí 
Ex-minister’s changing story
THE MINISTER of Public Security in the administration of Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014),José Raúl Mulino is still in preventive detention pending...
Pressure mounts for Odebrecht audits
AS PRESIDENT Juan Carlos Varela distances himself from the Odebrecht scandal and Panama links to the company’s jailed former president...
WORLD VIEW: Immigrants and the cultural divide
By Jonathan Power WAS THE cultured and sophisticated Italian writer, Oriani Fallaci, speaking for the large numbers of working class...
City launches rental program for street traders
PANAMA’S Municipal Council has extended charging for use of sidewalks and plazas in Casco Viejo to the rest of the city...
Teen-age traffic death lifts years total to 93
A TEEN-AGED cyclist hit by a Metro bus in Pedregal, on Monday morning, March 14. brought weekend road deaths to...
Mass cough syrup poisoning hearing adjourned
VICTIMS of Panama’s 9 year-old mass poisoning scandal listed as one of the world’s top ten medical poisoning tragedies are...
Police chief gets order for Martinelli arrest
PANAMA POLICE chief, Omar Pinzon, has received written instructions from Judge Jerominpo Mejia, for the provisional arrest of former President...
Paitilla building permits frozen
PANAMA City Council has unanimously approved a resolution that instructs the planning department not to approve any building permits in San...
Assembly dawdles over complaints against judges
WITH PANAMA’S Chief Justice facing 12 of 20 complaints against members of the Supreme Court, the National Assembly deputies responsible...
OPINION: Non-agression pact between corrupt court and Assembly
hoyporhoy La Prensa, March 14 LAST YEAR, the Credentials Committee of the National Assembly was able to give us...
OFF THE CUFF: Panama a “mini Dubai”
WHEN FORMER Panama president Ricardo Martinelli was at his most expansive, he liked to boast that Panama was another “Singapore”,...
Legal circles debate routes to get Martinelli to court
THE LEGAL team of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli has already made the first move in fighting the the arrest and extradition...