Moderators Moderator_03 Posted June 10, 2022 Moderators Share Posted June 10, 2022 Quote Emergency plan for garbage collection Posted 09/06/2022 An emergency plan for garbage collection in Panama City will be implemented to solve the problem seen in the streets of the capital said The Minister of Health, Luis Francisco Sucre on Wednesday. He said that he has already been talking with the Vice Minister of the Presidency, Carlos García, who in turn has been in contact with the representatives of the most affected districts. The Urban and Home Cleaning Authority has been addressing the matter, however, it has had some problems with the collection. "What we have done, including me as Minister of Health, is to coordinate with the Presidency so that this emergency plan evolves as a team," he advanced. The minister indicated that the plan would consist of providing the necessary equipment for the collection of waste as far as possible, therefore, "there must be hiring of compactor trucks and backhoes, at least for the districts that have the most difficulties. ”. In recent weeks, different sectors of Panama city have complained about the problem with garbage, both in the collection and poor disposal, aggravated by the situation on Patacón Hill. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/emergency-plan-for-garbage-collection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_03 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Moderators Share Posted June 16, 2022 Quote Striking garbage collectors return to work Posted 15/06/2022 Striking garbage collectors agreed to return to work following a Tuesday night meeting says the Minister of Health, Luis Francisco Sucre. "We reached some agreements yesterday [Tuesday] night, giving answers to the workers where it was agreed to lift the strike today," Minister Sucre announced on Wednesday, in statements to TVN Noticias. Sucre said that many of the points that the workers were requesting were agreed upon, such as salary adjustments, the rapid delivery of equipment and uniforms, as well as compactor trucks. The minister added that all this seeks to avoid public health problems. The leader of the sanitation workers, Mitzel Bermúdez, confirmed in the same way that they would resume work today. The Urban and Home Cleaning Authority (AAUD) also reported, through a statement, that an inter-institutional technical table was formed to work on the issues of the salary scale, permanence, supplies, equipment, and infrastructure. The AAUD workers had been on strike since Friday, June 10, which added to the problem of waste collection that this entity faces in the district of Panama. “It has been shown that the system is not enough for more,” said the Minister of Health, who added that what is decided on this issue in the future must be done as a team. "What is certain is that we have to evolve, the garbage collection system is obsolete," admitted Sucre, in the morning news. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/striking-garbage-collectors-return-to-work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_03 Posted June 20, 2022 Author Moderators Share Posted June 20, 2022 Quote Garbage crisis result of political solutions to tech problems Posted 19/06/2022 Panama’s "garbage crisis" is not a problem of trucks, but rather a failure of the work model of The Cleaning Authority, (AAUD) said Marcela Galindo de Obarrio, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (Cciap). According to Galindo de Obarrio, the crisis is another "sad example of the consequences that citizens pay when political solutions are applied to eminently technical problems." She added that the high price of this failure "is paid by all: the citizens who are living in sick and unhealthy environments." Another point highlighted by the president of the Cciap is that the workers of the Cleaning, Urban and Home Authority never get to specialize. “Every so often they have to go on strike to improve their conditions because that is the method that favors the current way of managing waste collection." Human talent Galindo de Obarrio recalled that the same city that is not capable of properly collecting and disposing of its garbage handles every day the crossing of dozens of ships, hundreds of flights in the main air hub in Latin America, or thousands of passengers in the only system of metro in the region. "It is clear that we have the human talent to analyze and solve the problem, which is why we call for the implementation of both public and private models of transparent, professional, and specialized administrations, without pernicious politicking," she said. The leader also emphasized that cities around the world, with populations and volumes of waste hundreds of times larger, "resolved the management of their waste years ago based on professional administration by entities or companies specialized in the matter." https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/garbage-crisis-result-of-political-solutions-to-tech-problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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