Central America News

A daughter's visit to the epicenter of the immigration debate has caused much reflection on what America is supposed to be all about.

Hordes of athletes from the Americas and the Caribbean competing in next summer's Pan Am and Parapan Games might find themselves without a cheering crowd of local supporters from their home countries, a community leader says.

The V.I. Government has dropped all charges against Azamba Galloway, the 23-year-old man shot by a police officer in the midst of a chase in the Kirwan Terrace housing community on St. Thomas in May. During Galloway's arraignment Thursday in V.I. Superior Court, the V.I. Attorney General's Office requested that all of the charges be discontinued, ... (more)

Grand Bahama Christian Council President Peter Pinder called on Bahamians to reaffirm the country's Christian heritage and reinstate prayer in the home.

A 750m trust held in the Channel Islands sits at the top of the structure, which sees the South African chain's capital flow through Malta, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Panama and the British Virgin Islands, the Guardian reported.

Tens of thousands of Honduran thugs have been flown home on Con Air since 2001. Now, what they learned on U.S. streets with the monstrous M-13 and M-18 has sent children fleeing north.

Daily News Photo by R. JALANI HORTON On Wednesday evening, a group of worshippers attended the "Power Week" gathering at the Joseph Aubain Ballpark in Frenchtown, a regularly scheduled meeting that also served as a rally against Sen. Judy Buckley's marriage equality bill.

Officials from the U.S., Mexico and Central American nations have begun a two-day meeting in Nicaragua at which they are expected to discuss the possibility of treating Central American migrants fleeing violence in their homelands to be treated as refugees.

Just steps from the Florida Straits, dozens of vehicles sit covered in grime and baking in the Caribbean sun.

Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe also said Haiti would reduce the cost of a passport from $80 to about $25, making it more affordable for migrants in the Dominican Republic who typically earn $5 a day or less.

Haiti's leading opposition factions allege the country's presidentially appointed electoral council is stacking the deck in favor of President Michel Martelly.

PEDRO RODRIGUEZ, head of Nicaragua's youth-affairs police, grabs the shoulder of 17-year-old Axel Matus and gives it a shake.

They were found within days of each other, both dead. Anthony, 13, and a friend had been shot in the head; Kenneth, 7, had been tortured and beaten with sticks and rocks.

The surge of migrants from Central America to the United States shows no sign of easing, despite what Barack Obama calls a 'humanitarian crisis'.

"We believe that being patriotic is not old-fashioned," said the Gatlin Brothers' Larry Gatlin, during his rendezvous with American troops in Haiti.

This is the second of five installments about his experience. Click here for the first one.

For most of us, if we think about the U.S. Virgin Islands at all, we think just of tropical resorts and hurricanes.

U.S. and Cuban government officials were meeting in Washington on Wednesday for the latest round of migration talks, a rare chance for dialogue between two countries that have not had full diplomatic relations for more than five decades.

There are many faces of the border crisis. According to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, 52,000 children have crossed the Texas border illegally since October; most of them coming to escape danger and poverty in Central America.

With today marking 67 days since the murder of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal, her relatives are questioning why no one has been arrested and charged with her death.