Wedding party flouting lockdown rules could face $100,000 fine.
A newly married couple who flouted Panama.s quarantine rules with a full-scale wedding celebration on Sunday, March 29, could face as much as a $100,000 fine
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) is investigating the celebration at the PH Manhattan Sky on Ave Winston Churchill Paitilla, on Sunday, March 29.
“I want to make it very clear that the Minsa only gives permits to have the possibility of companies working when they have to do with health issues and with the cycle of supplies of medicines and food. Therefore, we have not authorized the realization of any wedding held in recent days in the Paitilla sector,” said Minister Rosario Turner at the daily press conference on Wednesday
The investigation was initially undertaken by the Metropolitan Health Region, and the file will now be transferred to the General Directorate of Public Health. Preliminary information we obtain is that they accept having failed the Ministry’s health provisions ”, Turner remarked.
” We have contacted the people related to this situation which has somehow violated the total quarantine,
The party was held in the social area of the Manhattan Sky, and local residents surprised when there were fireworks that night. In the videos circulating on social networks, the bride and groom can be seen dancing with a plurality of guests, some wearing masks and disposable gloves. Musicians, waiters and photographers were among those packing the social area.
A maximum of five people is allowed at weddings and funerals. Recently police obliged the sixth guest to leave a wedding in Casco Viejo
