Panama City will buy waste collection vehicles to confront the mounting trash crisis in the city. Today, Panama’s Municipal Council approved the purchase of 51 garbage trucks for $8.6 million from Equipa Panama and Partes Diesel. If the math is correct, each truck will cost about $168,627. Dimaud, Panama’s municipal urban and residential waste...
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A recent clean up effort in the Panama Canal watershed turned up 4.3 tons of garbage, La Prensa reports. Milton Martinez of the Panama Canal Authority said that the trash was composed of items like bottles, plates, plastic spoons, bags and packaging disposed into the rivers and streams by residents, restaurants and weekenders who...
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This morning a steel plate fell from the 40th floor of the Rivage Tower construction project crane on Balboa Avenue, crushing a taxi below. Edwin Vallejos, the driver of the Toyota taxi, was dropping his wife at the Fish Market on Balboa Avenue when the incident occurred. Vallejos died on impact and his wife...
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