Archive for November 3rd, 2009

Independence Day Marches On

November 3, 2009
By pa.di.

The first day of parades celebrating Panama’s 1903 independence from Colombia was a persistent show of ceremony under a tropical downpour.  From early morning to afternoon, the drums of marching bands reverberated through the streets and shook building walls. Batons and pollera skirts twirled.  Symbols clashed and bazooka-toting forces marched. According to a New York...
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Nature’s Lease on Oceanfront Panama

November 3, 2009
By en.di.
Nature’s Lease on Oceanfront Panama

Leslie Marin, Director of Panama Environmental Authority’s Climate Change and Desertification, warns that with rising sea levels, Panama’s Caribbean islands and select coastal zones will disappear within 100 years. In the meantime, rising sea levels will continue to impact water resources, agriculture, ecotourism and human settlements.  Between 1990 and 2006, the Environmental Authority registered...
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