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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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 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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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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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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