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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 
OFF THE CUFF: Review of state double-dippers underway
SPARKED by reports that some alternative deputies in Panama’s National Assembly have been double-dipping (getting paid from two different institutions...
OFF THE CUFF: Panama the regions smart city?
OFF THE CUFF: Panama the regions “smart” city? WHEN former President Ricardo Martinelli was not busy attacking local media he...
Accused ex-revenue director wants former bosses cited
LUIS CUCALÓN, the former head of the Directorate General of Revenue (DGI) returned to his cell in the Judicial Investigation...
CORRUPTION: Large Companies Absent in Panama Tenders
It is significant that there is no participation in the tenders for large scale government works in Panama by companies...
The future of Panama Power Generation
The exhaustion of the potential of hydroelectricity and social resistance to its use, is bringing to the forefront alternative energy...
Highway blocked 6 hours to protest water shortage
AFTER BLOCKING the Transismica highway for six hours and causing major traffic delays, residents of Nueva Providencia, Colón got the...
Former revenue director in preventive detention
AFTER 14 HOURS of interrogation by the Fourth Anti-Corruption Prosecutor on Monday, May 25, Luis Cucalón former head of the...
24 boxes of documents reviewed by Martinelli prosecutor
SOME 24 boxes of documents relating to contracts awarded by the National ASSISTANCE Program (PAN) in the past government for...
CD deputies fingered for demanding contract kickbacks
BUSINESSWOMAN Mara del Carmen Vergara, one of the entrepreneurs being investigated for irregularities in the National Assistance Program (PAN), has...
Former Minister Ferrufino denied bail
PANAMA’S Former Minister of Social Development and renowned partier, Guillermo Ferrufino, has suffered another legal setback and got a judicial...
Police officer’s suicide after shooting mother of three
A NATIONAL POLICE sergeant became the third police officer this year to commit suicide after shooting his female partner on...
Hit-and-run driver sends two to hospital
POLICE are looking for the hit-and-run driver of a pirate busito (min-bus) that seriously injured a pman crossing the road...