The Unemployed Movement of Colon demonstrated outside of the Presidency today, requesting more jobs for the Colonians. The group arrived for a midnight vigil last night and stayed until early morning, returning later with chants about selling off the nation. Many have been without work for five months and last demonstrated in the plaza...
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Multilateral Parliaments and Bilateral Agreements in Town
The Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly opens tomorrow in Panama City to discuss the state of commercial negotiations between the European Union and Latin America, including job creation for women and youth as well and issues of security and defense. Also to be addressed during the two-day session are the frozen negotiations between Central America and...
“We All Play” in Panama’s Sensory Parks
The socially inclusive “We All Play” initiative will create sensory parks for Panama’s youth and more than 370 thousand Panamanians with disabilities. Pioneered in Osaka’s Oizumi Ryokuchi and Kansai Rosai Hospital Parks by Yoshisuke Miyake, a Japanese landscape architect, the inclusive design concept provides interactive, therapeutic tools to stimulate the senses. In Panama, the First...
Swine Flu Vaccines by Christmas
The Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Félix Bonilla, said that low production of the A(H1N1) vaccine in the United States will not affect delivery-in-full to Panama. The U.S. Center for Disease Control stated that under 30% of the doses ordered would be ready by the end of this month, but Panama’s Ministry...
Naso on Hunger Strike Joined by Marching Transportists
The Naso, one in army fatigues and a skull mask, continue their protest in Casco Viejo’s Plaza Catedral, this time on hunger strike since Saturday. No longer allowed in the central gazebo, they have set up tents and banners on the Cathedral steps and camp outside the Presidency gates during the day. They have...
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