Category: Infrastructure
Coverage of Panama’s roads, bridges, metro, water, power and public works projects, including delays, costs and what they mean for daily life.
The task of educating the bulk of Panama- the indigenous poor
Only with the vigor and impatience that children can show, they eagerly await in their classrooms the call of the teachers to receive their snack for the day. At Quebrada Hacha, the food of knowledge is combined with nutrition to guarantee that students have a future of greater opportunities. From early hours, the mothers begin preparing…
Better and cheaper housing options available from US to address Low Income in Panama
These house look like Goddamn tool sheds!!! The National Government has assigned a starting transfer for $3,394,687 million to finish the Nuevo Cartí urbanization project, which aims to accommodate 300 families who currently live in danger of flooding and overcrowding on the Gardí Sugdub island, in Guna Yala. With the transfer of departure, the authorities…
I teased, I’m telling. The END of Red Frog and Haley is at hand. Victims FINALLY see light
Contributed by JB and Reader Editorial from Red Frog Victims RFB loses Enjoy Group. Staff of criminals appear on CCTV, theft and break ins caught on camera and an infrastructure in tatters, undelivered units, and even poor old Joe stating he will resign “ yet again”, cause it’s too hot in the kitchen. Whatever became…
The abuse of corporations and the rich as the average workday is FAR from average
Mexicans work 2,124 hours a year, more than Costa Rica (1,913), Russia (1,874) and Japan (1,598). Several countries in the Americas, especially Chile and Colombia, are considering reforming by law the length of the working day, which in some places like Mexico reaches a grueling nine or ten hours a day. Especially in the big capitals, where…
Government puts an end to private contracting for Refuse and Cleanup. About time
The Urban and Home Cleaning Authority (AAUD) reported that in the next three months it will manage the largest landfill in the capital city: the one on Cerro Patacón. The decision, according to the company Urbalia, SA, occurs when his contract is still valid until the end of the year and not until March 26, as…
Trash and Garbage continue to be blight on Panama
Various stores, inns, informal stalls and other types of shops mark the route that begins in the 5 de Mayo square and ends in the Santa Ana park.Between Avenida B and the popular street known as Salsipuedes (13th Street), is La Peatonal de la Avenida Central, which since its creation has been characterized as one…
HUMAN RIGHTS ignited at issues in Panama, as well as other Latin American countries
PANAMA prison system is known to the world as being one of the worst. Three hundred and ninety nine tongues of men begging to be taken out of the cell in the heat of the night awaited Felipe and the police. The officers ignored the call. Four walls, one door, and four hundred prisoners breathed through…
Have to post. This actually just occurred to me
Perhaps, being an ex-pat and living here has made me obtuse over the years to something that is very clear. Panamanians as a WHOLE, do not speak English very well. (if at all). We have travelled to Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic to name a few. All have in general held a better grasp of…
The lack of a plan for Latin American Prisons will soon become too far to overcome. Answers exist
The few programs that exist in prisons lack a scientific basis, because there is no team of specialists to make a scientific and comprehensive diagnosis of criminal behavior ByMarlene Headmtesta@laestrella.com.pa Updated 11/25/2022 00:00Created 11/25/2022 00:00 We have to work on public policies in the long term, and not government policies. I make the call to carry…
Who really owns land in PANAMA? A Grift that has gone for years. But I know who owns “POLO” Joe
‘Who are the owners of the land in Panama?’ second edition No government plan of the last three administrations proposes a way out of the unequal distribution of land in Panama, while on the contrary, it worsens ByAbdiel Ivan Quinterojournalists@laestrella.com.pa Updated 11/20/2022 00:00Created 11/20/2022 00:00 ‘Who are the owners of the land in Panama?’ second edition…