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The US$45m Panama City and Bay of Panama Sanitation Project, approved in 2006 and executed by the Ministry of Health, supports the extension of the capital's sanitation network. [10] The sustainable development projects in Darién Province [ 11 ] and Bocas del Toro Province [ 12 ] include support of water supply and sanitation systems.
Mi Diario (My Diary) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Panama City, Panama. External links (in Spanish) Mi Diario
The system is in charge of the MiBus company, [2] initially managed by the Colombian-Panamanian consortium Transporte Masivo de Panamá until 2015, when the Panamanian government bought and assumed the operations of the company (remaining under the umbrella of the Panama Metro) and hired the American company First Transit, a subsidiary of ...
The ACP took over the administration of the canal from the Panama Canal Commission, the joint US–Panama agency that managed the canal, on December 31, 1999, when the canal was handed over from the United States to Panama as per the Torrijos–Carter Treaties. It is headquartered in Balboa, a district of Panama City.
After Panama gained independence from Colombia in 1903, with the assistance of the U.S., there was resentment amongst some Panamanians as a result of the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which ceded control of the Panama Canal Zone to the U.S. "in perpetuity" in exchange for a 10 million dollar initial payment and yearly 250 thousand dollar payments thereafter.
The ancestors of Idaʼan people lived around Madai caves for centuries and have a significant role in cultural identity of Idaʼan people. According to Idaʼan mythology and Sabahan activist and writer Mutalib M.D from his writings called Hikayat Raja Sabah, the Idaʼan used to have a kingdom called Bu-lud Temil which was founded by a man named Aki Apoi.
The language has a long literary history; the earliest known work in the language is a manuscript dated 1408 A.D. The manuscript, written using the Jawi script, gives an account of an Idaʼan man named Abdullah in Darvel Bay who embraced Islam, with the region thus becoming one of the earliest known regions in Malaysia to embrace Islam.
It is the smallest administrative division level in the country; which is further subdivided into populated places/centres. As of 2012, Panama is subdivided into a total of 693 corregimientos, since several of these were created in the province of Bocas del Toro and the indigenous region (comarca indígena) of Ngäbe-Buglé. [1] [2]