Panama Firefighters (Bomberos) announced Monday that they will strike on Wednesday, August 16.

The measure is to demand that the authorities comply with the payment that corresponds to the units that were promoted.

The Secretary General of the fire department, Cruz Gómez, told Telemetro Reporta that the payments of people promoted throughout the country have not been made. He clarified that before making the decision to go on strike they had several meetings.

According to Gómez, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has not attended these meetings. He points out that he does not know why the entity has not come forward. The secretary explains that the firefighters announced the upcoming protests as a measure of pressure, with this, they seek to obtain some response from the entities responsible for making the payment corresponding to the promotions of the red shirts.