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Chiriqui Flooded, Thousands Lost

November 7, 2010
By en.di.

Five days of intense rain in the Chiriqui Province left homes and crops submerged, rivers overflowing, bridges washed out and thousands of people affected by natural disaster. Arturo Alvarado, General Director of the National Civil Protection Service, said that 272 houses were underwater and that 1,160 people have been evacuated to the seven available...
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Possible Case of Cholera at Tocumen Airport

October 28, 2010
By en.di.

Ministry of Health officials detected a Chilean aid-worker with what appeared to be symptoms of cholera as she transited through Tocumen International Airport from Haiti on her way to Venezuela on Wednesday. Epidemiology  staff transported her to the Infectious Disease Ward of the Santo Tomas Hospital where she is being evaluated by doctors from...
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Burn Center Eyeing Old British Ambassador Residence

October 22, 2010
By en.di.
Burn Center Eyeing Old British Ambassador Residence

While making rounds of the Children’s Hospital this week, First Lady Marta Linares de Martinelli spoke of Panama’s hopes to convert the former British Ambassador’s residence into a burn center and skin bank. Built in 1928, the former residence is located on a 48,438 square-foot lot on Balboa Avenue.  The lot belongs to Panama,...
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Beer Fuel Contaminates City River

October 21, 2010
By en.di.

The Curundu River got a taste of 4,000 liters of bunker C fuel from the National Brewery in Tumba Muerto on Wednesday. The leak occurred during a fuel transfer operation, and the main concern was that the Panama Canal Watershed would be affected. Ocean Pollution Control was called in and set up three retention...
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Panama City’s Trash Mountains Scheduled for Pick-up

October 19, 2010
By en.di.
Panama City’s Trash Mountains Scheduled for Pick-up

With new equipment approved, DIMAUD, Panama’s municipal urban and residential waste management department, will begin garbage collection duty at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow. Harmodio Montaner, DIMAUD Director, said that the entity had been working with only 20 compactor trucks, two trucks and a backhoe to confront the mountains of trash in Panama’s capital. “Obviously we...
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