President highlights progress in connectivity amid the pandemic.

During a tour of the Ngäbe Buglé region, the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, affirmed that, despite the pandemic that has affected the country for more than ten months, the National Government has provided 87 schools with internet. remote region and that this year another 189 schools will be incorporated.

 

During his tour, the president inaugurated the Cerro Flores School. There he highlighted that with an investment of B / .5.5 million, a ranch school was transformed into a campus with modern facilities that will optimize the teaching-learning process.

 

The Cerro Flores School is part of the Colmena Plan, which includes the 300 townships of extreme multidimensional poverty, and the Study Without Hunger Plan. 30 computers were also delivered to the students at that campus.

 

Cortizo Cohen announced that this educational center is part of the 87 included in the fiber optic project in the Ngäbe Buglé region, so that they have quality internet.

 

In coordination with the Ministry of the Presidency, during the day the members of the Polyphonic Choir of the General Quebrada Guabo Basic Education Center received musical instruments such as flutes and drums, which will help them prepare for future national and international performances, and also received tablets.During the tour of the Ngäbe Buglé region, the Minister of Social Development (Mides), María Inés Castillo, handed out backpacks containing educational games and materials for recreational activities.

 

 

The president also gave the first shovel of the headquarters of the Government of the Ngäbe Buglé region, located in Llano Tugrí, in an act that he described as "historic for the advancement and development of the largest indigenous reserve in the country."

 

Cortizo Cohen said that in the end, when we talk about the great bridges and highways, “we want to leave a more important seal than those bridges and highways, which is to connect the largest number of schools in this country —of the Panama of the neighborhoods, rural Panama, agricultural Panama and that of the comarcas— to a good internet ”.

 

"That is the best connection, the connection to knowledge!", Stressed the president.

 

Finally, the president made a call to take care of the pandemic, and that although the first batch of vaccines against Covid-19 has already arrived, there is a long way to go in this journey, “and I am sure that, with the structure, the strategy continues of vaccination that we have in this country, we are going to advance in an orderly fashion and we are going to succeed as Panamanians are used to succeeding ”.

 

Also participating in the tour were the ministers Maruja Gorday de Villalobos (Education); Erika Mouynes (Foreign Relations); Janaina Tewaney Mencomo (Government) and María Inés Castillo (Mides); in addition to the vice minister of Mides, Milagros Ramos Castro.