The Streets

False Alarm: Retirees Still Protesting in Street

November 10, 2010
By st.di.
False Alarm: Retirees Still Protesting in Street

Despite certain reports last week that the retirees were going to back off street protesting in favor of negotiation, they were back Tuesday, blocking traffic for three hours on Via Transistmica. The protest slogan, shouted by some 40 independent retirees, was:  ”We are not asking for alms, We are claiming a right!” Eladio Fernandez,...
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Preparing for Holiday Garbage

November 9, 2010
By en.di.
Preparing for Holiday Garbage

The holidays are just around the corner and the trash authority is taking measures to deal with the 40 percent increase of Panama garbage output expected during this festive time. To this end, Director of the Panama’s municipal urban and residential waste management department, Harmodio Montaner, has suspended year-end vacations for garbage collection workers...
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Three Executed in Panama West

November 7, 2010
By st.di.

Three people, including a national policeman, were executed early Saturday on a road leading to a private farm in La Chorrera in Panama West. The victims were identified as 34-year-0ld police officer Edwin Manuel Gamboa, 48-year-old Colombian Gunner Posso Hurtado and 31-year-old Erick Escobar Chala. All were shot multiple times in the head with...
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Panama Celebrates Independence

November 3, 2010
By st.di.
Panama Celebrates Independence

Over the next two days, around 150 student, state and civic delegations and bands will parade patriotically along two capital city routes in celebration of Panama’s 107 years of indepence from Colombia. The independence days celebrations began before dawn on Wednesday with the sounding of a couple hours of horns and drums in the...
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License Suspension for Drivers with Overdue Tickets

October 31, 2010
By st.di.
License Suspension for Drivers with Overdue Tickets

As of November 2, the Transit and Ground Transportation Authority will suspend licenses of people they find driving with overdue traffic tickets. Director of the Authority Jorge Ricardo Fabrega said that his institution takes no pleasure from these measures but that it is time for drivers to pay their fines, especially since they were...
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