President Juan Carlos Varela, announced on Tuesday in the province of Colon the creation of a Task Force and a search block to deal with crime. Varela said that this Task Force will be made up of all the State security agencies, so that Colón maintains the same security figures that are registered in the…
OP ED: by James “JB” Bryson In the past we covered the haphazard logging operations that were occurring in the Darien region. What makes this region even more challenging is the location it serves as a possible conduit of illegal trafficking and smuggling between Panama and the Colombian borders. A very dense and jungle filled…
The Tocumen International Airport with an index of 91.11% was awarded the On Time Performance Airport 5 star award, as the most punctual medium-sized airport in the world, according to the British aeronautical analysis consultant, Official Airline Guide (OAG), after evaluating the performance of global punctuality during the year 2018. Last year the air terminal…
After 2018, with projected growth of around 4%, the most moderate in the current decade, projections indicate that the country’s economy will rebound at rates above 5% in the short and medium term. MEF: Panama is set to return to the FATF gray list Debt grows $ 2,710 million Panama’s GDP grew 3.6% through September…
The deadline for the submission of signatures for the candidacies for the free application closed yesterday, in the middle of a bitter dispute for the third place in the race for the Presidency. Ricardo Lombana and Dimitri Flores are fighting for that position. Yesterday, Lombana presented 26 thousand signatures – which still have to be…
The legal defense of former President Ricardo Martinelli intends to shield him with a new electoral criminal jurisdiction in the case that he is followed for allegedly ordering to spy on the communications of at least 150 people. Martinelli presents new appeals before the Court Victims: failure confirms that Martinelli was the head of the…
OP ED: James “JB” Bryson- He will have to read it on Monday as he took a bunch of buddies to Key West for a Friday “conference”. All coming back the same day. The president of the National Assembly, Yanibel Ábrego , sent a letter of protest to the President of the Republic,…
Now that they have control of the House of Representatives , Democrats are preparing an ambitious electoral reform to limit the influence of money on politics. Democrats approve plan to reopen US government United States opens a Congress hostile to Trump in full ‘closure’ The proposal, among the first to be considered in these days,…
The year 2019 started with a new clash between the Comptroller’s Office and the National Assembly. Assembly concludes extraordinary sessions without ratification of judges General Comptroller suspends payment of payroll 002 The comptroller, Federico Humbert , annulled more than 500 checks corresponding to the salaries of officials who work for about 18 deputies of different…
by James “JB” Bryson So in the spirit of giving, my visiting family did a bang up job of giving me the flu. So apologies for the stagnancy on the site over the past few days. I do however, love the fact that I can get everything I need with one visit to a Super…
