Central America News

A Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials was scheduled to go on trial in Havana on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government crackdown on corruption.

Three people accused of killing a member of a well-known Cocoa Beach family two years ago in Costa Rica are facing trial this month in the Central American country.

Daily News Photo by AMANDA NORRIS Helen Tapia, right, the mother of 54-year-old Roberto Tapia, chief of enforcement for the Department of Planning and Natural Resources, leaves the Ron de Lugo Federal Building on Tuesday after being appointed her son's third-party custodian.

I know a Cuban man named Fidel who is tall, well-built and hardworking. He is known to have had several wives and many girlfriends during his life, and now has a pregnant daughter who will soon make him a grandfather, but those details of his life are diffuse.

A former Cayman Islands premier who faces 11 criminal charges and was ousted from leadership last year is heading into Thursday's general elections with an outside chance of returning to power in the British Overseas Territory.

That's the name of a DEC promotion reminding people not to disturb fawns and other young wildlife.

THE JAMAICA Emergency Employment Programme has taken over the zinc fence-removal programme, an initiative of former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson.

Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a man suspected of raping at least 60 women in the past two years.

Scientists say one of Costa Rica's largest volcanos is spewing clouds of ash and gas, setting off a small-scale evacuation.

In terms of historic merit, the achievements of Haitian Revolution leader Toussaint L'Ouverture are noteworthy but also highlight a complex and sweeping story.

A pensioner whose dream cruise was ruined when she fell ill following an outbreak of norovirus is taking legal action against the liner's owners.

Jabarie Kemar King , 25 years of Block 26 D, Haynesville, St. James who was charged for the offence of Serious Bodily Harm in relation to the stabbing of Andre Gabb on 17 May 2013 at Black Rock, St.

Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.

In this May 10, 2013 photo, the No. 2 official at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Conrad Tribble, top row second from right, poses with Cuban bloggers and tweeters holding their name tags at the end of a meeting called TwittHab 2.0 in Havana, Cuba.

After ten years at its Marco Walk location, Aqua Beachwear has taken over the space formerly used by Island Drug in Marco Town Center.

In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged in vigilantism.

Reporters Without Borders hopes that the reason will soon be known for radio journalist Pierre-Richard Alexandre's fatal shooting by an individual identified as Baudelaire Augustin in Saint-Marc, in the north-central department of Artibonite, on 17 May.

Leaders of Cuba's dissident Ladies in White group rejected Havana's claims they are mercenaries and said on Monday that there is nothing wrong with receiving help from abroad because the Cuban government "is trying to asphyxiate us." Berta Soler and Belkis Cantillo also called for forgiveness of low-level repressors in a post-Castro era but ... (more)

Earl Jarrett, chairman of the JN Foundation , hands a copy of a signed contract to Rosina Moder, executive director of Music Unites Foundation, to provide funding for a two-year initiative to research and document the works and life of Jamaican composers of classical and patriotic music, as well as composers of church, dance and theatre music.

Guatemala's top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings.