Central America News

A senior U.S. diplomat flew in Tuesday to try to revive a U.S.-brokered pact between Honduras' deposed president and the coup-imposed government ahead of elections this month.

Lawmakers overwhelmingly gave final approval to Jean-Max Bellerive as Haiti's new prime minister Tuesday, making him the sixth person to hold the post since 2004 in this politically unstable nation.

Washington - Ida strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane as it approached the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on Thursday and was set to make landfall later in the day, the US National Hurricane Centre said.

When a dozen Cuban bloggers wanted to stage a protest last month, they simultaneously tweeted, texted and posted messages like ``Freedom.'' One later used a blond wig to sneak into a government building and complain against censorship of the Internet.

A British Virgin Islands judge ruled Tuesday that a former Rhode Island dive shop owner must serve at least 25 years of a mandatory life sentence for killing his wife on a Caribbean scuba outing in 1999, rejecting his lawyers' bid for leniency.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 LONDON: The Commonwealth expects both Pakistan and India to settle their bilateral issues and the organisation can only extend its assistance on issues relating to good governance and social and economic development.

Honduras' Congress has made no plans to vote on whether to enact the agreement following remarks by Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon that seemed to remove U.S. pressure.

A top baseball prospect for the San Francisco Giants has been freed on bond after the family of the man he is accused of killing asked a judge in the Dominican Republic to drop the case.

Port-of-Spain, Nov 8 Noted Kathak exponent Pandit Birju Maharaj mesmerised Trinidad and Tobago, capturing the imagination of the packed audience at Queen's Hall that is a premier venue for cultural shows here.

The Dominican Republic's Health Ministry announced Thursday to intensify the campaign against the dengue, which has killed 41 people in the country.

By Ivan Castro Managua - Hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical storm as it churned through eastern Nicaragua on Thursday after cutting power and ripping roofs on little-developed Caribbean islands.

Luis Rub, Honduran General Prosecutor, was attacked by gunshots fired against his government vehicles, which were on the principal northern highway of the country, according to police reports.

Mexico City/San Salvador, Nov 9 : At least 90 people were killed as heavy rains prompted mudslides and flooding rivers in El Salvador, rescue workers said Sunday.

A feared ex-police commander known as "Rambo," who led a commando-style squad accused of multiple killings across Jamaica, is seeking to become the violence-wracked island's top law enforcement officer, police said Sunday.

The Argentine government said Thursday that it would urge the international community to apply pressure on Honduras to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power.

"Carving originated in Africa, and we are African-Jamaican," said woodcarver Rock Bottom in the Port Antonio market.

By Paras Ramoutar, Port-of-Spain, Nov 6 : The Trinidad and Tobago police have found pages of the Hindu holy book Bhagvad Gita soaked in millions of dollars worth of liquid cocaine in a laboratory in Couva, Central Trinidad.

Cubans can enjoy a new freedom from this week - citizens of the communist island can now buy potatoes and peas without restriction.

A newly strengthened Tropical Storm Ida slogged across the Northwest Caribbean with 60 mph winds on Saturday and headed for the Gulf of Mexico.

Nicaragua's Caribbean coast faced a battering by high winds and heavy rains Friday, as remnants of hurricane Ida wrecked homes and officials warned as many as 40,000 could be affected by the storm.