LatinNews Daily - 5 June 2025

*Panama’s comptroller general, Anel Flores, has announced that some 15,000 teachers will not receive their salaries corresponding to the first two weeks of June amid a strike which has been taking place since 23 April by Panama’s leading teachers’ association Asociación de Profesores (Asoprof) and has since grown to include other sectors. The strike is over various issues including the recently approved social security (CSS) reform. Flores said yesterday that it had been verified that the teachers whose pay would be suspended had not worked since 23 April. In a further bid to pile pressure on the teachers, he added that there were over 17,000 people seeking work as teachers. There is no end in sight to the nationwide strike which has affected various sectors, including the crucial banana industry in Bocas del Toro province, where the government led by President José Raúl Mulino declared a state of emergency last week. In a press conference on 3 June, Labour Minister Jackeline Muñoz announced that banana company Chiquita Panamá, the local subsidiary of multinational banana company Chiquita Brands International, which has previously announced that it would terminate the contracts of all of its day labourers due to the strike by banana workers, revealed on 30 May that all 60 of its administrative staff had been fired, and this week all of the remaining 1,600 employees on its payroll would be dismissed.

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