Central America News

Clint Buffington was about to give up for the day after combing a beach in the Turks and Caicos Islands for hours.

Nicaraguan officials have called Wednesday's confrontation in the town of Ayapal near the Honduran border little more than an attempted grocery store robbery gone bad.

JetBlue Airways spokesman Mike Miller says the flights will leave twice a day from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and land in the Caribbean nation's capital, Port-au-Prince.

But as more and more islanders go into business for themselves under President Raul Castro's economic reforms, the ethos of capitalism is increasingly seeping into Cuban daily life, often in stark conflict with fundamental tenets of the Cuban Revolution.

Former UN Ambassador Bill Richardson has admitted to Newsmax that he "screwed up" in his 2011 to free U.S. prisoner Alan Gross, who has now been held in a Cuba for four years.

December 5th, 2013 A group which called itself Patrulla 1856 before recently changing its name to the Frente PatriA3tico para la Defensa Nacional has released a series of photos of its militia participating in infrantry and combat training at one of the group's camps.

The Cuban American community has been very effective in advocating for freedom in Cuba and the end of the apartheid Castro dictatorship and its crimes against humanity.

While, understandably, a lot of news media attention in recent days has focused on the U.S.-led talks to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the Obama administration appears to be laying the groundwork for another diplomatic breakthrough.

A. J. Nicholson , Jamaica's minister of foreign affairs, engages Winston Dookeran, minister of foreign affairs, Trinidad and Tobago, at a press briefing held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday afternoon.

The World Bank's special envoy to Haiti voiced concern on Wednesday about how the government was using public funds generated by cut-rate Venezuelan petroleum imports, saying a lack of transparency was the biggest obstacle to the country's economic development.

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A sprawling, well-kept cemetery buttresses the entrance to Nueva Capital, a sketchy Honduran slum with panoramic views over Tegucigalpa, the capital city of this violent country with the world's highest murder rate.

Prime Minister Dr Baldwin Spencer and chairman of the Sandals group Gordon 'Butch' Stewart signing the memorandum of agreement for a new Beaches resort in Antigua ST JOHN'S, Antigua -- The government of Antigua and Barbuda signed a memorandum of agreement with Sandals Resort International on Monday for a multi-million dollar Beaches Resort project.

Glenford Smith, Career Writer Among the most indispensable skills to attain success in life and pre-eminence in your career is working effectively with people you don't like and who don't like you.

By Joseph Guyler Delva VERRETTES, Haiti -- A 16-year-old Haitian boy, Widerson Gena, has accused Argentine UN soldiers in Haiti of having killed his dream to become an agronomist after he has been shot five times, paralyzed, condemned to a wheelchair and denied any support from the world organization, over two years later.

An IBC Airways Swearingen SA-226 Metro III, registration N831BC performing freight flight II-405 from Santo Domingo to San Juan with 2 crew, was observed in low level flight near Arecibo around 20:10L .

Workers stitch Hanes tee-shirts at a factory in the CODEVI free trade zone in Ouanaminthe, Haiti.

Maersk Line will launch a new weekly intra-America service connecting the U.S., including Puerto Rico, with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.

Survivors from a rickety wooden sailboat, which ran aground last week while ferrying undocumented Haitian migrants through the Bahamas, are scheduled to be repatriated to Haiti Tuesday, Bahamian authorities said.

TRINIDAD and Tobago's Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran says a 'trade war' with Jamaica will cause both countries to suffer and so his Government is interested in finding a solution to the current stand-off following on the incident in which 13 Jamaicans were refused entry and deported from the twin-island republic.