Members of the Single Union of Construction and Similar Workers (Suntracs) proceeded to close two of the four lanes of the Centenario road, in front of the City of Health, on the morning of this Tuesday, April 24. The workers, with banners and flags, began to march towards the city, which has caused a great…
As part of the ecosystem , human beings are compromised by the effects of environmental pollution that we cause. Children, the elderly, sick people and families with limited resources are the most affected by this problem, and it intensifies in urban areas with uncontrolled growth and overpopulation . According to data from 2017 of the…
Guaranteeing the permanence of children in their homes, as well as strengthening the role of families and communities in the care of infants, are the main objectives of a new campaign in favor of children. This is an initiative promoted by the members of the SOS Children’s Villages , which is called “# SíMeImportan” and…
The plenary session of the National Assembly approved yesterday in the second debate the project of law 581 , that regulates the services of blood and blood transfusions. The proposal, presented in October last year by the head of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), Miguel Mayo, seeks to create a National Hemocenter to take charge…
The Urban and Domiciliary Cleaning Authority (AAUD) carried out a surprise operation for more than 500 shops in the Casco Antiguo. In some businesses, irregularities were detected, such as evasion of the cleaning fee, delinquency and residential collection status; what violates the rule and evades the payment corresponding to the activity they develop. So far this…
The President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela, announced the appointment of Deputy Minister Carlos Eduardo Rubio as the new Minister of Government, replacing Minister María Luisa Romero, as of May 2, 2018. The president thanked Romero for having accepted the challenge of being Vice Minister of Government and then directing this Ministry of such…
Jaime Lasso Del Castillo, member of the Panameñista Party and who acknowledged having collected funds from the construction company Odebrecht for the group between 2010 and 2014, sued for slander and insult to the presidential candidate Juan Carlos Navarro, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, for having affirmed in National Television that ‘washed silver’. In the…
The deputy of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) Roberto Ayala, harshly questioned for introducing a modification to the project 53 whose original objective was to adopt measures related to the process of opening companies and which ended up repealing Law 2 of February 10, 2015, was defended Yesterday through a statement, although it was not…
by James “JB” Bryson I made a quick little post the other day about the “promise” going forward of more oversights in the awarding of lucrative government infrastructure and high paying engineering and civil projects to inside contacts within past administrations. Look, if one recalls back in the US during the Gulf War, there was…
The International Day of Awareness about Noise, held in Panama for the seventh consecutive year Panama will join next Wednesday the International Day of Awareness on Noise, which is held in dozens of countries with a minute of silence to raise awareness of the damage caused by excess decibels, organizers said today. “It’s time to…
