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According to most of the street vendors whose opinions we sampled, sales were just a little slower than expected at the Independence Day and Flag Day parades. Several Panama City taxi drivers told The Panama News that, as most of the tourists at the hotels used transportation arranged by the hotels or by tour groups, they only saw a little increase in business over the holidays. However, the hotels and many of the restaurants did a very brisk business catering to the tens of thousands of visitors who came here to participate in our centennial festivities. During the celebrations President Moscoso used the occasion to shanghai her guest Sean Connery into cutting the ribbon at the unfinished Colombian-owned Multicentro shopping mall, a number of international and Panamanian musicians got paying gigs and Rubén Blades played for free. Photo by Eric Jackson








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