Panama’s Institutional Protection Service will have six new V-Strom Suzuki motorcycles by the end of the month. Each V-Strom is priced at $11,000 and will be painted white and accessorized in Colombia to Presidential motorcade standards – including protectors, hard saddle bags and sirens – arriving by June 22, a street source confirmed. Word...
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The U.S. Consulate recently turned down Panamanian Archbishop Jose Domingo Ulloa’s visa request to travel to the United States for a conference on migration. Ulloa was scheduled to represent the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean at the Regional Bishops Consultation held last week in Washington. The bishops who were able...
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Within three years time, Panama will add a modern penitentiary city to its property portfolio: La Nueva Joya, or the New Jewel. The $155 million project (which includes the 5% sales and property transfer tax) will be delivered as a turn-key property including design, construction and equipment. With a capacity for 5,500 inmates, facilities...
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