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Flooding, landslides cause damage

  Civil defense agency SINAPROC is reporting that several communities in Colón have experienced problems due to flooding and landslides. Jaime Ospino, regional director of SINAPROC for the Colón area, said that the area has received heavy showers for more than 48 hours, and they have caused several rivers to overflow, specifically in the area of Nombre de Dios.   The community of Embera Ella Drua has been cut off because of the flooding of the Sardinilla and Gatún Arriba rivers.   Four landslides have blocked roads in the Portobelo ......


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Varela to make trip to explain Parlacen decision

Vice President Juan Carlos Varela confirmed this afternoon that he will begin a tour of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to officially give those countries notice of Panama's intention to leave Parlacen. Varela explained that he is going on the trip to explain Panama's decision to leave the regional organization in person to the leaders of those countries.   The National Assembly has scheduled meetings that will begin this week to discuss Panama's departure from the ...

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Deaths of three children to be investigated

The Public Prosecutor's Office in Chiriquí has opened an investigation into the death of three children who died in the Bugaba district. Prosecutor Nedelka Díaz said the investigation has been opened after the father of the children accused his wife of child abuse. An autopsy determined that the three children, two girls and a boy, died about the same time of natural causes. The girls died of cardiac malformations and the boy died of a cerebral lesion, according to a report ...

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Traffic light situation up in the air

At the beginning of the project to modernize Panama's traffic light system, transportation agency ATTT said the project would cost $7 million and reduce driving time around the city by 50 percent. That was in 2005. By 2007, the price tag had risen to more than $22 million, and the time savings drivers could expect had shrunk to 15 percent. ATTT officials said the initial estimate did not include the installation or operation of the system, which was to run for 10 years. But the company in ...

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Expansion of Corredor Sur considered

Based on the increase of traffic on the Corredor Sur recently, operator ICA Panama said that it may plan to expand the highway. Vice Minister of Public Works Iván De Ycaza said that a study on a proposed expansion of the route should be ready by next month. The study is being done by the firm Steer Davies Gleave, which was hired by ICA after traffic jumped from 15.7 million users in the second quarter of 2008 to 18 million in the same period this year. Diego Hernández, ...

 

 

 


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