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    Supreme Court admits probe of deputy in  child  death

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    The Plenary of Panama’s Supreme Court of Justice decided on Tuesday, January 2to admit an investigation against The CD  lawmaker  Mario Lazarus in a  case related to the running over with a car and death of a 14-year-old girl in the province of Colon.

    A statement from the Judicial Body said that the  Supreme Court admitted the certification of copies from the  Public Ministry naming Lazarus for a generic crime “Against life and  personal integrity”

    Judge Angela Russo de Cedeño was assigned as Prosecutor and Harry A. Díaz as

    Magistrate of Guarantees

    Lawmakers have immunity from prosecution by the Public Ministry.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/supreme-court-admits-probe-deputy-child-death

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    Jailed Martinelli  “optimistic” on extradition hearing

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    Ex-president  Ricardo Martinelli, who once boasted that he would return to Panama and cross the country in a  triumphant convoy welcomed by cheering supporters mimicking a parade by a former military dictator, could instead be returning in handcuffs to an awaiting jail cell to face multiple trials with potential lengthy prison terms if found guilty.

    The way the pendulum swings will likely be decided on Tuesday, January 16  when he leaves the cramped Miami detention center cell he has occupied since his arrest on June 12.  That’s when he will  get   a US judge’s response  to an  Amparo opposing his extradition to Panama,

    His spokesman and longtime cheer leader, lawyer Luis Eduardo Camacho, told the Efe News agency. on Tuesday, January 2  that although Martinelli had been affected by his stay in detection he is “strong” and “very optimistic” about the result of the habeas corpus appeal.

    According to court documents, the hearing in which Martinelli’s lawyers will present the arguments of the appeal was postponed from January 9 to 16,  but so far that has not been officially confirmed says Efe.

    Camacho said that the new date was set by Judge Marcia G. Cooke of the Federal Court of the Southern District of Florida after the Prosecutor’s Office requested a postponement and the defense did not oppose it.

    Asked about how Martinelli spent Christmas and New Year   Camacho said that although he is “strong” and receives visits from relatives and other authorized persons “something must have affected him ” being in prison at this time.

    However, Camacho said, he is “very optimistic” about the outcome of the appeal filed with Judge Cooke.

    The defense appealed to Cooke after US judge Edwin Torres ruled on August 31 that Martinelli’s extradition to answer a case of illegal wiretapping during his government, in which  150 people were victims, including journalists, businessmen and politicians was backed by sufficient evidence

    Successive requests for bail with offers as high as $10 million have been denied.

    Panama’s  Supreme Court of Panama wants Martinelli to face charges of embezzlement (and illegal eavesdropping with up to a dozen others waiting in the wings.

    In one of her first appearances  at the beginning of October, Judge Cooke instructed each of the parties to take a series of steps in order to “resolve this dispute efficiently and expeditiously.”

    The appeal is directed to the US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and the active head of the detention center where Martinelli, is being held.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/jailed-martinelli-optimistic-extradition-hearing

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    Panama moving  on   city  traffic signage

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    THE  NEW YEAR  in  Panama City began with a $1.4 million dollar signage program aimed at reducing the growing chaos on the capital’s streets.

    The Transportation Authority  (ATTT), has launched an “intense” horizontal and vertical road marking program which will mean some early traffic delay pain as work goes on,  rewarded with what the  ATTT hopes will be smoother traffic flow  – if drivers pay attention.

    Among the areas Identified where work will be in progress are:

    • Carretera Transístmica (section from San Isidro, in the district of San Miguelito to the Aleman Johnson Bridge / Ancha-Colón stream).
    • Avenida Brasil-Ramon Arias
    • Avenue Israel (from the Via Brasil roundabout to the intersection with Calle 50)
    • Avenue Transístmica (from the intersection with Ave. Martín Sosa to the intersection of Calle del Ingenio, with Ave. Fernández de Córdoba)
    • Avenue October 12
    • Calle 50 (from the intersection with Vía Brasil to the intersection with Ave. Cincuentenario).
    • Avenue Ernesto T. Lefevre
    • El Dorado Boulevard
    • Rafael Aleman Avenue
    • Ave Cuba, Calle 61.
    • Avenida Ricardo J. Alfaro (from the San Miguelito overpass to the Transístmica. overpass

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/panama-moving-city-traffic-signage

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    ENTERTAINMENT: New Kid On Block Joins Old  Favorites

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    By Margot Thomas

    Panama’s  welcome to 2018, continues well into the year with a potpourri of theatrical and musical events with some anticipated traditional favorites being joined by a new kid on the block – Panama The Musical.

    Set in Panama  during the closing years of the Roaring  Twenties, when dances like the Charleston and the Black Bottom were the rage,  it is the story of a struggling love affair between a Zonian  American songwriter who  dreams of hearing her songs on the new invention called “radio” and a  young Panamanian  boyfriend who  win a contest to record their songs in New York with interventions by a casino owner forcing her young sister to pay off a family debt by working in a local casino, setting  the scene is for lively song and dance routines with  tunes that have already won critical acclaim in London’s West End.

    The musical written by Canadian ex-pats Rob Brown and Yolanda Van Der Kolk promises to literally put Panama in front of the spotlights with performances scheduled for  Canada and beyond.

    The cast and production lineup features many local celebrities and some newly discovered starlets.

    Opening night is Feb 1, 2018, at the Ateneo Theater, City of Knowledge. Tickets at. www.panatickets.com.

    Below are some of the Entertainment  highlights of the  first half of the year.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/coming_events/christmas-calendar-beyond

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    Water taxi tourists had to swim for 30 minutes

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    Over 20 tourists who set out from Isla Colón in Bocas del Toro on Sunday morning, Dec. 31 and were the subject of a night long search by the National Aeronaval Service (Senan), had to swim for their lives to Cayo Agua after their boats were overturned by strong waves.

    The boats were spotted by the crew of a Senan plane on the morning of January 1.

    Originally it was reported that the missing tourists traveling in water taxis were Costa Rican but after the rescue, it was discovered that there were Argentinian, Spanish, Guatemalan, Costa Rican and Panamanian citizens among the passengers.

    For Matías Cardillo, an Argentinian citizen living in Panama it was a traumatic experience, reports La Prensa, and he denounced the irresponsibility of the captains of boats and those who offer tours despite the bad weather.

    He said that the tourists several times asked if they would leave for the Zapatilla and Coral keys.in  the bad weather. According to the tourist, the captains responded that weather was always like that early in the day and changed after 10:00 a.m., which never happened.

    He called on the authorities to initiate a thorough investigation and sanction those responsible.

    Cardillo also requested that the vessels be provided with the minimum security equipment, like radio communication, cell phone, flares and good lifeguards.

    Leoncio Guerra the regional director of the Panama Maritime Authority, , said that an investigation will begin.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/water-taxi-tourists-swim-30-minutes

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    Panama Listed Ship Held in UN Sanctions Probe

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    A PANAMA registered tanker suspected of violating UN sanctioned by selling oil to North Korea,  has been detained in a South Korean port.

    The Koti ship, of 5,100 tons, has been held in  Pyeongtaek-Dangjin (west of the country) since at least December 21.

    Most of its crew are  Chinese and Burmese nationality, according to local news agency Yonhap, citing maritime authorities.

    It is the second case of a ship investigated by the South Korean authorities for supplying crude oil to the North Korean regime on the high seas. On Friday, Dec,27 the Government of Seoul announced that it had seized a ship with the flag of Hong Kong.

    The Winmore Lighthouse was detained on arrival at the port of Yeosu (south) on November 24, after allegedly transferring some 600 tonnes of refined oil to a North Korean ship on October 19.

    UN resolution 2375, unanimously approved last September following the latest and most powerful nuclear test of the Kim Jong-un regime, limited the supply of oil to North Korea as of October 1, 2017, and prohibits the export of petroleum condensate.

    The insistent North Korean weapons tests, including the launching of ballistic missiles, led the UN to tighten its sanctions on December 22, further limiting access to oil products.

    After announcing that the Hong Kong ship had been retained by Seoul authorities, US President Donald Trump lashed out at China.

    “Caught red-handed – very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go to North Korea.” There will never be a friendly solution to the problem of North Korea if this continues to happen, “said Trump  on Twitter

    The Chinese Government denied that its country has allowed any such act.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/panama-flagged-ship-held-un-sanctions-probe

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    Transparency body probes “all in the family” jobs

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    THE TRANSPARENCY and Access to Information Authority (Antai) have handled 310 complaints from Dec. 2014  to Nov. 2017 about government officials allegedly involved in nepotism, with the Electoral Tribunal (TE) figuring among the top three offenders.

    An  Antai, report reveals that 148 complaints were received from anonymous sources and 162 were initiated by the authority, reports La Prensa.

    Among the entities in which there were the largest number of officials reported were the Electoral Court (TE), the Agricultural Marketing Institute (IMA) and the Civil Aeronautics Authority (AAC), with 10 reports apiece.

    The Chilibre Community Board, had five officials denounced; The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Authority with four, and the consulate of Panama in Houston, with three.

    According to the report, 21 officials were found to be engaged in nepotism. After the denunciations, there were, at least, 28 transfers, resignations and dismissals of officials.

    One of the first nepotism scandals in the  Juan Carlos Varela administration came to light when his government was just beginning in 2014.

    At the Panamanian Consulate in Houston. Texas.  a citizen reported that three people working there were members of the same family: a woman and her two children. Two of the three consulate officials were dismissed.

    In the Ministry of the Presidency, Minister Álvaro Alemán, had his nephew Jaime Alemán Arosemena, s executive assistant, which, says La Prensa. caused a collective rejection by civil society, but before the Antai resolved the case, the nephew of the minister resigned.

    In those days, complaints of nepotism proliferated.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/transparency-body-probes-family-jobs

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    OPINION: Nepotism, A Government Cancer  

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    A MODERN STATE cannot allow its officials to name their relatives in the entities under their charge, to the detriment of other citizens equally or better trained. This unhealthy practice is not new, but – as is evident in the investigations carried out by Antai- it persists as a  cancer in the increasingly bulky and expensive state payroll, in open challenge to the norms that have been created to combat it. It is not true, as one former president said, that nepotism “is not sin”. Not only is it a violation of the Uniform Code of Ethics of Public, servants but it is also the seed for worse evils, such as corruption, trafficking in influences and clientelism. It is time for them to understand that the power granted temporarily through the polls does not give them the right to solve family unemployment… LA PRENSA Dec.31
     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/opinion-nepotism-government-cancer

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    12 dead in Costa Rica plane crash

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    A PLANE carrying 12 people crashed shortly after takeoff in Costa Rica, killing the two pilots and 10  passengers  on Sunday, Dec, 31 says a Costa Rican government  The Ministry of Public Security published photographs of the  crash scene and  the burnt remains of the aircraft in Guanacaste, a wooded area  in the northwest of the country.

    The statement said that the plane belongs to Nature Air and hat it had just taken off from a nearby site. It was heading to Punta Islita and was embedded in a  mountain in Bejuco de Nandayure.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/12-dead-costa-rica-plane-crash

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    Year ends with accident record intact

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    Panama ended the year with a repeat of the daily accident rate of well over 100 spread across the country including at last one fatality and scores of injuries

    image.pngA speeding  Jeep narrowly escaped landing in the sea after it crashed and overturned on the Corridor Sur while heading towards Costa Del Este, say traffic authorities, who posted photos on Twitter.

    Meanwhile, the driver of a bus heading into  Panama city from Howard in Panama Pacifico lost control and crashed into trees. There were no immediate reports f injuries.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/year-ends-accident-record-intact

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    Head on crash kills one injures 24

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    ONE PERSON died and 24 were injured, several seriously, in the head-on collision in Chepo, on Sunday morning, December 31.

    The Fire Department, reported on its  Twitter account, that the accident occurred near the community of Cañita on the road to Bayano.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/head-crash-kills-one-injures-24

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    Probe of airport parking scam to continue

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    THE SEVENTH Criminal Court has rejected a move by lawyers of the former head of Tocumen International  Airport.  Juan Carlos Pino, to block an investigation by anti-corruption prosecutor  Lizzie Bonilla.of possible irregularities in the contract granted to the Sky Parking Company, S.A., for the administration of the parking lots in the air terminal.

    A forensic audit by the Comptroller General revealed that between 2007 and 2010, the time at which the airport managed the parking lots it, received an average of $1.3 million per year. and during the time Sky Parking, S.A., had the concession, the terminal received on average $ 312,000 creating a possible injury to the state of $1.9 million.

    The auditors blame Pino, as well as the former minister of Economy and Finance Frank De Lima, who was president of the board of directors of  Tocumen, S.A.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/probe-airport-parking-scam-continue

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    Capira Traffic Death Starts  5 km Traffic Jam

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    The death of a 35-year-old man, struck by a bus loaded with passengers on the Pan-American highway in Sajalices, in the Capira district,  caused a  five-kilometer traffic jam  of vehicles heading to Panama shortly before five a.m. on Friday, January 29. Two passengers were injured by flying glass.The road was closed for over an hour.

    Grim Totals
    The death brought the number of people killed in traffic accidents in Panama West during the year to 63. Nationally the figure hovers near 400.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/capira-traffic-death-starts-5-km-traffic-jam

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    Lane reversals on Trans-America highway

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    LANE  REVERSALS  were introduced on the Pan-American highway at noon on Saturday, December 30  to ease traffic congestion as scores of thousands of families headed for the interior to welcome the New Year.,

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    he investment of lanes was from the Bridge of the Americas to Arraiján from 12:00 p.m. at 4:00 p.m. and from La Espiga, in La Chorrera, to Capira from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

    Returning
    On Monday, January 1, 2018, in the direction of the capital city, the investment on the Interamerican highway will begin in El Nance de San Carlos until La Espiga in La Chorrera from 10:00 a.m. to  6:00 p.m.

    The operation is conducted by the Transit Authority (ATTT) in coordination with the Directorate of Traffic Operations of the National Police.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/lane-reversals-trans-america-highway

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    200 Firemen Fight  Free Zone Blaze

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    OVER 200 firefighters. From Colon, Panama and the Canal Authority (ACP) battled for more than eight hours overnight to control a fire that consumed a warehouse in the Colon Free Zone on Friday, December 29.

    In spite of their efforts and falling rain, the fire, which started in a tire deposit, spread to a second warehouse.

    Firefighters’ work was complicated because the walls of the first building were at the point of collapse said the Fire Service.

    The Fire Department of Panama said that volunteer fire companies were activated from the regional area of Panama to support their colleague in Colón.

    At 1:40 p.m.  on Saturday It was reported that the second burned structure collapsed.

    The fire in the two deposits has affected at least six companies operating in the  Free Zone.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/200-firemen-fight-free-zone-blaze

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    Banks must give info on Martinelli accounts

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    ANOTHER delaying tactic by the legal team of the sons of former president Ricardo Martinelli, facing investigation in the Odebrecht bribery case has been thrown out by The Supreme Court.  (CSJ).

    It has given the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office the go-ahead  to investigate the bank accounts of Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares brothers.

    In a November 29, ruling The plenary of the Court of Justice considered that the order issued by the Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the bank accounts of the brothers in the Odebrecht case does not violate the constitutional principle of inviolability of private documents or the regulation on banking confidentiality. and it does not admit a protection of constitutional guarantees presented by Luis Eduardo Camacho González, representing the brothers. “We consider that the act attacked does not violate any fundamental right, in the sense of having been issued by a competent authority – Special Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office – explaining clearly and it specifies the reasons on which it supports the requirement of information to the banking entities that operate within the national territory”

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/banks-must-give-info-martinelli-accounts

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    German Cruise ship visits Isla Colon

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    The cruise ship  Europa of The German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd Cruises anchored 400 meters off Estrella beach, one of the main attractions of Isla Colón, in Bocas del Toro on Wednesday, December 28.

    The ship, which arrived from Costa Rica, stayed for nine hours and 200 of its 331 passengers visited the tourist destination, before sailing on to Panama City.

    Gustavo Him, administrator of the Panama Tourism Authority (ATP), said that the shipping company took care of the logistics to move the passengers, while the ATP was responsible for security on land.

    Him did not rule out that the shipping company could include new stops on the island during future cruises that involve tours of Panama.

    The ATP  has invested $2.9 million to improve the tourism infrastructure in Isla Colon including the Simón Bolívar municipal park and Third Street, where the pedestrian sidewalks will be rehabilitated, and a bike path will be built.

    Improvements will also be made to the pier and the ATP regional office.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/travel/panama-2/german-cruise-ship-visits-isla-colon

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    Multi-million corruption suspect released

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    THE RANKS of high profile members of the Ricardo Martinelli administration detained in El Renacer prison charged with corruption, were further thinned on  Thursday, December 28.

    The former Minister of Economy and Finance Frank De Lima accused of accepting $7 million in bribes, is now free to walk the streets, barred only from leaving the country.

    During a Supreme Court plenary session on Thursday, December 28, he was granted an appeal of habeas corpus replacing the preventive detention which had been imposed by the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office in the Odebrecht case.

    Judicial sources informed La Prensa that the magistrates who voted in favor of change were: José Ayú Prado, Cecilio Cedalise, Efrén Tello, Oydén Ortega and Hernán De Leon. Jerónimo Mejía abstained, while his colleagues Harry Díaz, Ángela Russo and Abel Zamorano saved their votes.

    At a  November 9 public hearing in the Twelfth  Criminal Court, André Rabello – Odebrecht’s superintendent in Panama – confessed that De Lima received at least $7 million in “improper payments” from the bribery department of the construction The declaration is part of an effective collaboration agreement with the prosecution. Luiz Eduardo Da Rocha Soares, another Odebrecht executive, also identified De Lima as one of the beneficiaries of improper payments made by the firm.

    In addition, two Panamanians -Olmedo Méndez Tribaldos and José Luis Saiz Villanueva- stated while under investigation that they received money from Odebrecht, on instructions from the ex-minister.

    Frank De Lima is also under investigation for alleged irregularities in contracts for concessions granted at the Tocumen International Airport for which He was granted bail in October. However, he was still in El Renacer for the Odebrecht case.

    Recently, it was announced that he is also being investigated for supposed embezzlement in the parking lots contract at  Tocumen International.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/multi-million-corruption-suspect-released

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    Lawmaker involved in girl death has immunity

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    THE PANAMA LAWMAKER  who has admitted that he is involved in the running over of a 14-year-old girl who died after being hit  near  Colon,  and who, according to reports, left the scene is immune from prosecution by the Public Ministry
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    The minor died in Hospital del Nino

    Deputy Mario Lazaruz, of the opposition Democratic Change Party (CD), said in a tweet from his personal account: “I was involved in an unfortunate transit incident, on the Boyd Roosevelt road, in the Bella Vista corregimiento, where a minor lost her life.

    “We have made ourselves available to the family to provide all the necessary support, as well as before the competent authority,” said Lazaruz, who as a parliamentarian can only be prosecuted by the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ).

    According to local press reports, the car that ran over the child fled but later was retained by the police. The Public Ministry (MP) said  that the Regional Prosecutor of Colón knew the case, but that “lacking competence, legal and constitutional competence  never ordered any apprehension of the deputy.” Reports El Siglo.

    The MP  added that the Prosecutor’s Office of Colón “therefore did not order freedom or disengagement, and  the aforementioned (parliamentarian) was never available to the Public Ministry.”

    The Office of the Prosecutor “proceeded to prevent the violation of rights and guarantees, and submitted the file of the fact, for the alleged commission of the crime Against Life and Personal Integrity to the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice, for that entity to continue the investigations and dispose what corresponds in law, “said the MP.

    By constitutional provision, the deputies of the National Assembly (can only be investigated and prosecuted by magistrates of the Supreme Court).

    The National Assembly, in turn, is the only entity with jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute the judges of the Supreme Court, which is widely regarded as a cosy deal allowing members of both entities to skirt justice.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/lawmaker-involved-girl-death-immunity

  20. On 12/28/2017 at 1:46 PM, Palo Alto Jo said:

    I'll private message you.  I think it would be fun to  give a day to accept river water samples around the area and just see what we could find.  We might not see all organisms without centrifuges and specialty dyes, but it would be interesting just to see what we could discover, if anything.  It would certainly be fun for me to just look through a microscope again.  

    If either of you learn something of general interest about water supplies in this area based on your microscopic laboratory work, would you post here for the benefit of all?

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    Stores get 6 months to sell-off  non-digital TVs

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    Stores selling  TV sets in Panama  have just  six months to clear their shelves  devices with a screen up to 43 inches, which do not have built-in digital DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting Tuner). The announcement was by the Public Services Authority (ASEP) on Wednesday, December 27.

    TVs that do not have a built-in tuner require an additional box connected on the outside to capture digital television channels and retailers will have to provide it for free

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/stores-get-6-months-sell-off-non-digital-tvs

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    Martinelli last-gasp extradition hearing 

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    Ex-president Ricardo  Martinelli’s  last-gasp attempt to avoid extradition to Panama to face trial on wire-tapping charges which carry a potential sentence of 20 years,  will be heard in a Miami courtroom on January 16.

    It comes just five days before the Democratic Change (CD) Party holds its internal elections, with Martinelli seeking to remain as leader of the party he founded to further his political ambitions, and, judging by corruption investigations, his financial standing.

    Judge Marcia Cooke, of the Southern District Court of Florida, will listen to the habeas corpus arguments presented by  Martinelli’s well funded legal team to prevent his extradition.

    The hearing,  was originally scheduled for January 9, and the delay will ensure that the ex-ruler will reach his seventh month in the sparse cell in the Miami Detention Center, one block the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr., Federal court building.

    Martinelli was arrested  near his  Coral Gables mansion on June 12, at the request of Panama’s Supreme Court which  wants him to answer for the unauthorized interception of communications from the National Security Council, attached to the Presidency, in the last two years of his mandate (2012-2014) with multi-million dollar snoop equipment purchased from Israel. The equipment and two of its operators have since disappeared.

    The habeas corpus was filed on September 28, 29 days federal judge Edwin Torres- endorses the hand over of Martinelli to Panama, considering that there are

    “reasonable grounds” to assume that the former president is guilty “of all or any of the crimes that are imputed to him … given the wealth of evidence provided by the Supreme Court of Justice in the request for extradition.”

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/martinelli-last-gasp-extradition-hearing

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    Girl, 14, hit  and killed by deputy’s car

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    A 14-year-old girl died at dawn on Thursday.Dec. 28 after  being hit by  a 4×4 driven by a lawmaker on the Transístmica highway, near the community of Buena Vista, on the outskirts of the province of Colon

    She had been trying to cross the road to her home at 8.00 on Wednesday evening The vehicle was driven by Mario Lázarus, CD.

    She was taken by ambulance to the Nuevo San Juan polyclinic, in Colón, and then transferred to a hospital in the capital, where she died.Her death raises the total traffic fatalities for the year to 397.

    Dr Lázarus said that he was driving “normally” towards his residence, about three minutes from the accident site when he felt that “something was thrown”, and he felt a blow, on the left of the vehicle, reports La Prensa.

    He said that the area was very dark and everything was very fast. “At first, I thought it was an animal, but when I let the window down and moved the car,  I realized  that it  was a woman “,

    I went for help and returned with my wife. The ambulance was leaving, I went to the barracks in Buena Vista, where I stayed until five in the morning “said the deputy.

     

    http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/girl-14-hit-killed-deputys-car

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