The Comptroller General of the Republic, Federico Humbert , revealed yesterday that the audits of the millionaire funds that the Panamanian Sports Institute (Pandeportes) allocated to the circuital parties of deputies will include all the sports federations and even the Olympic Committee of Panama (COP ). Pandeportes: thousands of dollars for areas where there are…
OP ED: by James “JB” Bryson One line- Can you see the forest between the trees? The former president of the Republic, Ricardo Martinelli was rushed to Santo Tomás Hospital, confirmed his spokesman Luis Eduardo Camacho. Earlier, Alejandro Pérez, one of Martinelli’s lawyers, announced through a voice note on WhatSapp that the ex-president presented…
The traditional bipartisanship that reigned in Panama was broken in the elections of May 2009 with the arrival of a new force: the one led by the presidential candidate of Cambio Democrático (CD) , Ricardo Martinelli , who along with the standard-bearer of the Panameñista Party , Juan Carlos Varela , integrated the alliance For…
By James “JB” Bryson I have not hid my underlying in some cases and outright blatant in others, lack of approval of the Varela administration. Merely look back into the index of PNO.com since we started live and you will see a very apparent willingness that Varela shows to curry favor with Communist nations that…
Luis Ernesto Carles , Minister of Labor and Social Development (Mitradel) , reported that he presented his resignation because he will be part of the campaign team of presidential candidate José Blandón , of the Panameñista Party, and he will run as candidate for deputy in circuit 2-3 (La Pintada, Natá and Olá). Minister of…
OP ED: by James “JB” Bryson As an American, I can certainly understand the cult of personality, and the head scratching ways that polarizing people obtain public office. I am of course being quite sarcastic, as a reality TV show star, admitted “Pussy Grabber” (sorry honey) and accused Russian collaborator occupies the highest office on…
by James “JB” Bryson Last week PNO.com commented and illustrated the large disparity between what was spent on among the candidates of the PRD for the primaries. This new La Prensa article will show how it affects the positioning of the CD as well. The 2 thousand 548 votes that Ricardo Martinelli took in his…
Laurentino Nito Cortizo , presidential candidate of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) , spent $ 1 million in the primary election on September 16, where he emerged victorious. Congresswoman Zulay Rodríguez , the second most voted, disbursed $ 91 thousand, and former president Ernesto Toro Pérez Balladares , who was third, invested $ 583 thousand….
The Comptroller General of the Republic, Federico Humbert , asked the National Assembly (AN ) a report on the contracts signed between that State body and radio stations from 2014 to this date. The request was directed by Humbert to the president of the AN, Yanibel Ábrego, as a matter of urgency. Humbert asked Ábrego…
The defense of Ricardo Martinelli, who was president of Panama (2009-2014), insists on requesting the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) to declare the case null and therefore its release. According to the defense of Martinelli, and his supporters, the files of the Martinelli case -for supposedly intervening communications- are ‘chimbos’ and were armed in the…
