Central America News

Tuesday's greeting between Obama and Castro comes after six months of quiet diplomacy between the United States and Cuba-and Castro signaling he's ready for bigger talks.

The enduring ability to inspire wonder and awe, and to weather the rigors of time, Mother Nature and human politics these are the qualities that elevate an engineering feat to landmark status.

Cayman Racer snakes are endemic to the Cayman Islands and aren't found anywhere else in the world.

Elian Gonzalez is capturing the world's attention once again as a delegate for the 23rd World Festival of Youth and Students being held in Ecuador.

Beatrice Massier and Esther Julnide both received new right hips in surgeries performed last week at Premier Surgical Institute in Galena, Kan.

The Federation of Culinary Associations of the Republic of Cuba and the Cocinarte Academy of Gastronomy in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, signed an agreement to build closer ties and collaboration.

Professor Trevor Munroe, executive director, National Integrity Action, greets Zaila McCalla, chief justice, at the National Integrity Action second anniversary gathering to commemorate International Anti-Curruption Day at the Jamaica Conference Centre yesterday.

ALICE TOWN, Bahamas -- With a ton of wahoo freshly caught and stored in freezers for some tasty reminders of the November Wahoo tournament, host Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina in The Bahamas has announced Wahoo Smackdown IV scheduled for February 27 through March 1, 2014.

President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro Tuesday at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, a simple gesture that, while promptly downplayed by the White House, created a furor in Washington among critics of the Cuban regime.

"The national mobilisation called for by Xiomara Castro on Friday night became a massive, angry funeral procession today in Tegucigalpa," the Honduras Resists blog reported on November 30 on the protests against the theft of the Honduran elections six days earlier.

A Honduran court has sentenced each of four police officers to 66 years in prison for the 2011 killing of the son of the National Autonomous University's president - a case that set off a campaign to clean up the Central American nation's corruption-plagued police force.

From left, Fior Petithomme, 9, Flore Auguste and Oriana Petty, 5, will get assistance from the Salvation Army this Christmas.

The U.S. Agency for International Development will shift from building houses to financing them for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the agency's chief for the Caribbean nation said Monday.

From a very young age, Irma CastaA eda has braided her curly hair and cared for it with natural recipes inherited from her mother, ignoring the widespread conception that Black women's hair is "ugly" or "bad."

Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy who survived a boat sinking and became a political football during the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign as the subject of an international custody fight, is on his first trip overseas since being reunited with his father.

The traditional Jamaican canoe is almost five meters long and contains 1,357 resin figures that represent enslaved Africans who were transported to the country.

December 9th, 2013 A 47-year-old U.S. citizen identified by the last name Edward and a 22-year-old Costa Rican identified by the last name of Padilla were arrested for operating a hydroponic marijuana operation on a farm in Tierras Morenas de Baru in Perez Zeledon.

Religious leaders have often come out against the lifestyle of homosexuals, also called gays, but one clergyman yesterday defended them, saying he was disappointed that more Christians were not speaking out against the injustices faced by the men, who are often scorned by the society.

Good news. Jamaica is not the most corrupt country in the world . Bad news: we're not exactly high on the list of countries doing well.

On Nov. 13, Claudia Membreno Gomez was cooking dinner for her four children at home in Honduras.