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this section:  Teachers at the Technical and Professional Institute of Colon block the Transistmica Teachers, students, parents take the street over a broken-down school photos by adiazr The grievances at
the Technical and Professional Institute of Colon (IPTC) are a
dilapidated and in several respects unusable school; teachers having
not been paid, or having not received pay raises due to them; and the
lack of equipment for several of the trades that the school is supposed
to teach.
The demands are for equipment for the construction, welding, auto mechanics, and electrician workshops; the resumption of the started and then abandoned gym replacement project; a new roof; replacement of the electrical system; completion of repairs to the chemistry, physics and life sciences labs; the completion of the promised 14 new classrooms; a new school bus; the hiring of three security guards, record keeping staff, a school psychologist and a social worker; and payment of teachers' salary arrears in full. The Asociacion de Profesores was no longer willing to accept excuses, and no longer willing to deal with underlings. The teachers and non-academic personnel walked off the job on June 9 for a two-day strike, along with students and some of the kids' parents, and poured onto the adjacent Transistmica. They vowed to keep the road blocked unless and until President Torrijos himself came to talk to them about their grievances. The riot squad came in lieu of the president.  No masks for these boys, who considered it their patriotic duty to proudly resist  Why are these officers hiding behind their shields? Maybe it's because many of the IPTC boys are studying trades that will make them SUNTRACS members, and some of them live in or near La Feria, which this riot squad invaded three times in one day to harrass the family of slain SUNTRACS member Al Iromi Smith during the wake. The riot squad was met by sniper fire on their third assault and is not well liked in the neighborhood.  One of the protesting parents
overcome by tear gas
Also in this section: Heavy fallout over Avenida Central chopper crash Colon vocational high school uprising 37 years after disappearance, Gallego still inspires New high court packing scheme in the works Chávez expresses annoyance with FARC Colon incinerator operators don't want photos Campaign battles over polls, on many other fronts Panama News Briefs Lots of things up in the air in early campaigning Education scandals won't go away New Penal Code, with late amendments, goes into effect Is the Merida Initiative going to bring a US base to Panama? Restless indigenous areas Burma's military situation altered by cyclone News |
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