Panama current event--03/21/10

On Tuesday,March 16, 224 workers for "Suntracs" construction company were arrested. They began a riot for the union of the company, witch they were part of. They spent 4 days in the La Joya Prison and were released on Saturday morning. They are planning to protest again on Monday. On Saturday, the "Suntracs" company will hold a meeting of their national council to present a report on what happened last week. the secretary general of "Suntracs", Genaro Lopez, said that this was anouther example of "we have a Minister of Government and Justice who is arrogant and provocative, and who offends the workers".

Current Event in Panama

Less large container ships and far more bulk carriers loaded with grain have made passage through the Panama Canal in the past year.This is because since Panama took control of the waterway from the U.S.A. there have been steep toll increases. There have been complaints from container ship owners saying that the toll increases are creating a shipping crisis. The administrator of the Panama Canal has chosen to ignore them and continue with the toll increases, he says there has only been a two percent drop in traffic through the canal in 2009 as compared to 2008. The revenue from the new tolls will be used for construction on the Panama Canal doubling it's width, which will increase the size of ships able to use the canal. The project will be complete in 2014 for the canal's centenary.
So far this year earnings from the canal are up ten percent, mainly due to toll increases, since taking over the canal ten years ago Panama has tried to maximize profits. The canal is the tiny country's only source of revenue.
This editor believes that as long as Panama keeps toll costs less than the cost of moving goods by another means, for instance going all the way around South America or dropping the goods on the west coast and then moving them by road or rail, we will see no drop in shipping through the Panama Canal. This will have the possibility of making Panama one of the richest countries in South America.

Here is a link to the article on Panama-Guide
http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/panama-will-boost-canal-tolls

PENPAL CARTA Kat French
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11/4/09




¡Hola, Christopher!

¿Cómo estas? Yo muy bien. ¿Que te gusta? Me gustan mis lagartos. ¿Te gustan el helado? ¿Te gustan más, gatos o perros?¿Porque? Me gustan perros y gatos. Gatos y perros son comico y intelegente.

Mis pelicúlas favoritas son PUSH y The Golden Compass. ¿Qual es tú pelliculas favoritos? Mi música favorita es el Goo Goo Dolls. Mi deporté favorito es fútbol (soccer). Mis animales favoritos son lobos (wolves). Mi juego favorito es Dungeons and Dragons. Mis libros favoritos son Inkheart , Harry Potter y The Golden Compass. ¿Qua les tú libro favorito? ¿Qual es tú Comida favorita? Mi comida favorita es comida china. No me gustan verduras. ¿Te gustan verduras?

Mi nombre en mi classé de éspañol es Aleta, pero mi nombre réal es Kat. Soy de panama en mi classé de éspañol, pero soy de réal es Michigan. ¿Como es tú mama y papa? Mi hermano, Liam, es comico. Mi papa es muy perezoso. Mi mama es muy intelegente. Yo soy rúbia.

¿Cual es tú cumpleaños? Mi cumpleaños es once de febrero. ¿Cuantos años tienes tú ? Yo tengo once años. ¿Cual es el cúmpleaños de tú méjor amigo? ¿Cuantos años tienes tú amigo?





Adios,

Aleta

Panama

At low elevations in Panama the temperature in the day time is usually eighty to ninety degrees Fahrenheit. At night it is usually about 70 degrees Fahrenheit. At higher elevations, such as on the mountains the temperature is lower, it will usually be from fifty to seventy degrees Fahrenheit on the mountains. The temperature in Panama does not change much between seasons. Panama has high humidity averaging 80%. The average rainfall in Panama City is seventy inches per year and one hundred and twenty inches in Colon. The season with the most rain is October through November.
Panama has diverse physical geography with mountains and plains. It is located on the Isthmus of Panama. It is between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and has a waterway called the Panama Canal, used by ships to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa without going around Cape Horn.

Sports in Panama

Many sports are played by people in Panama. Some of their favorites are Beach Volleyball, Golf and Soccer. They try to put a lot of effort into Soccer, or ass they call it, football. Some of their Soccer teams are Alionza Panama, Chepo FC, FC San fransisco Chorrere, Atletico Colon, Corrillo FC, Panama Sporting Club, CD Arabe Unido, Cosmos, Tauro FC, and CD Plaza Amodor.Other sports played in Panama are Basket Ball, Base Ball, Tennis, Boxing, cycling, Horse racing, snorkeling, Surfing, Scuba diving, Fishing, White Water Rafting, and rugby. Basket Ball, Base Ball, and Soccer teams have won many titles and have played nationally and internationally.

When I decided to do a current event article on my country, Panama, I had to find a number of articles and read them before deciding on one. This helped me to learn about the government and every day life of people in Panama. I decided to write about a deadly sickness in Panama called Dengue fever. The more severe type of this sickness is called Hemorrhagic Dengue. Some say that this will become an epidemic, like infectious disease specialist and researcher Dr. Xavier Saez-Llorens. There have already been 1196 cases of Dengue this year, including several cases of Hemorrhagic Dengue.

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