by James “JB” Bryson On PNO.com we have already expanded and commented on the recent logging issues and back handed concessions given by the person assigned to PROTECT the environment of Panama. Yet as I type, more activity is occurring dangerously and ominously close to protected hectares in Colon’, that yet again show the short…
The US president, Donald Trump , said in the United Nations (UN) that even the “most” “strong” options are on the table with respect to Venezuela, whose questioned governor is participating in the General Assembly on Wednesday. “All the options are on the table, all of them. The strong and the less strong, “Trump said…
The last speech of President Juan Carlos Varela before the General Assembly of the United Nations displaced the issues that dominated the news agenda: the ruling against a mining concession, the audience to Ricardo Martinelli for the punctures, and the political whirlwind of the electoral campaign of 2019 Varela calls for the development of policies…
OP ED: by James “JB” Bryson Say what you will of former President Ricardo Martinelli, but the guy has a set of balls on him. Whereas I am equally jaded into Panamanian politics as I was in my own country back in the states, I truly feel that the entirety of “Politics” is morally bankrupt…
Bill Cosby will spend his first night behind bars at SCI Phoenix, a 3,830-bed prison in the suburbs of Philadelphia, after being temporarily detained in a county prison where he was sent immediately after being sentenced to three to 10 years in prison. prison for sexually abusing a woman at home in 2004. Correctional authorities…
The lessons learned from the migratory crises “force us today to reiterate the energetic call to the Government of Venezuela to regain political dialogue.” This was part of the message given this Wednesday, September 26, by the President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela , during the plenary session of the 73rd General Assembly of…
“What has happened with Odebrecht is the biggest case of corruption that we can remember,” said Mercedes De Freitas , executive director of Transparencia Venezuela, an organization founded in 2004 as the Venezuelan chapter of Transparency International . He explained that despite the number of countries involved and politicians pointed out, the complexity of the…
Jackeline Morales, director of Days in the Dioceses of the Local Organizing Committee for the World Youth Day (WYD), explains to The Star of Panama what the Days of the Diocese are about and the significance of the symbols of WYD for the Christian meeting, which will take place from January 22 to 27 next…
With 100% of the votes counted after the primaries of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), the majority of the current deputies of that party secured their candidacy for the 2019 elections, but three did not obtain the necessary votes to seek their re-election. This is Crescencia Prado , circuit 12-3; Aibán Velarde , from circuit…
The defense of former President Ricardo Martinelli announced, in total, 28 testimonial evidence, 87 documentaries, 4 expert opinions and 132 interview documents for them to be evaluated by the judge of guarantees, Jerónimo Mejía, in the hearing of the process that is followed by the exmandatario the punctures. Moltó, Pérez and Garuz, witnesses of former…
