Representatives of all neighborhoods and districts must first-hand listen to the complaints and proposals coming from the communities. This is because Colón, although surrounded by ports, a free trade zone, a railway, and a highway, continues to show a deteriorating reality with forgotten communities and few opportunities. Finding solutions to the problems plaguing the province of Colón is the objective of the meeting approved by the representatives of the districts of the Colón region with the deputies of the Atlantic coast. The decision was made this week during a session of the Colón Municipal Council, held under the Cuatro Altos bridge, where the issue was put on the table without mincing words. At that meeting, council members approved summoning the five deputies for Colón to a working meeting, with the idea of sitting down to talk clearly about security, unemployment, and lack of resources, problems that continue to affect the population despite the wealth that moves through the province. The summoned deputies are Víctor de Jesús, Rogelio Revello, Jairo Salazar, and Yamireliz Chong from circuit 3-1, and Nelson Jackson from 3-2. For many, the wealth passes by and does not stay in the city. Benicia Gavidia, 40 years old and unemployed, said it clearly: “We must make a single force so that the resources reach the people of Colón directly.” Meanwhile, Roberto Mendoza, 32 years old, a taxi driver, hopes that this meeting will not remain in words and that the deputies will obtain the necessary funds to improve the province.
