Suspect arrested in Kardashian robbery

French police arrested a person on the Côte d’Azur suspected of involvement in the robbery of US television star Kim Kardashian in October 2016, local media reported on Monday. The arrest took place this week and the detainee will be presented today before the investigating magistrate investigating the facts, which allowed the thieves to take…

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SUNTRACS strike forthcoming

In the morning members of the National Union of Workers of the Construction Industry and Similar (Suntracs) closed several roads in the city of Panama to the conflict that remains with the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (Capac) for a salary increase during the six months of negotiation of a collective agreement. The workers affiliated with…

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Tug Captains creating embargo at Canal

The five Neopanamax ships scheduled to transit this Thursday for the new set of locks could not complete the transit because the tugboat captains refused to comply with an order from the administration. Since the beginning of the third set of locks, inaugurated on June 26, 2016, the Canal administration has assigned three sailors to…

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Varela and Saint Melo at the Summit

With the objective of participating in the “VIII Summit of the Americas” , the President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela , and the Vice President and Chancellor Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado traveled to the city of Lima, Peru . + info Corruption will be the highlight of a Summit of the Americas…

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Varela in Peru for Summit of Americas

Varela will hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts in the region, and with congressmen and members of the Chamber of Commerce The president of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, and the vice president and chancellor, Isabel De Saint Malo, traveled today to Lima to participate in the VIII Summit of the Americas of Peru, which will…

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Italian corruption case for Panama delayed

The judge of the preliminary investigations of the Court of Naples delayed again the opening of oral trial – until next May 8 – in the case on the alleged diversion of 20 million dollars in the frustrated construction of four modular prisons in various locations in Panama , by the Italian Svemark consortium. +…

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Indemnity requested for $3mill Varela contribution

The former presidential candidate Juan Carlos Navarro , of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) , went to the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, April 12, to notify of a lawsuit filed against him by the former ambassador of Panama in Korea, Jaime Lasso , for the alleged crime against him. Honor + info Juan Carlos…

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