The Attorney General’s Office is investigating 75 reports on the Communal Boards, including those of  Rio Chiriquí, Betania, Bastimento, Chilibre, Nuevo Emperador, Tijeras, Rio Indio, Capira, San Francisco, Paritilla, Sabanitas and San Pablo Viejo.

President  Juan Carlos Varela announced that the Cabinet Council to be held yesterday would analyze the “steps to follow” for the removal from the board of directors of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) of  Henri Mizrachi and Nicolás Corcione .

Henri Mizrachi, did not answer the questionnaire of the First Specialized Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime , which is investigating the alleged purchase of Editora Panamá América, SA (Epasa) with public funds in the year 2010, in the case called New Business .

Panama included Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on a “high risk” list of money laundering to protect its financial system, the Central American country’s foreign minister, Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado , explained on Tuesday, April 3 .

Across the country are circulating several pharmaceutical products of “dubious origin”, supposedly containing antibiotics, analgesics, anti-inflammatories, antiseptics, in the form of creams, powders, gel and soaps.  

A group of residents of the Seventh of September sector, in Arraiján (West Panama), protested yesterday morning, due to the lack of water. The protest took place on the road that leads to the bridge of the Americas.

The first neopanamax container vessel with a capacity of 13,100 TEUs or 20-foot-long containers arrived on Monday, April 2 at the PSA port in Rodman, located at the entrance to the Canal on the Pacific side.