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Honduras' president-elect is not worried that many countries do not recognize his election.

The Roman Catholic Church is joining Cuba's booming blogosphere with a new Web site launched Monday that aims to provide a virtual forum for the island's faithful.

FRANCE, Martinique - A French judge has filed preliminary corruption charges against former Tourism Minister Leon Bertrand and placed him in custody on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, the prosecutor's office in Fort-de-France said.

The Government yesterday welcomed Rwanda as the newest member of the Commonwealth.

Trinidadian Prime Minister Patrick Manning Sunday formally declared closed the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on Sunday in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago.

Commonwealth states representing a third of the world's people said on Sunday momentum was growing toward a global climate deal, but nagging doubts remained over funding levels and degrees of commitment.

PORT OF SPAIN : Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the freeze on the intake of Bangladeshi workers stays despite a request from his Bangladeshi counterpart for a review of the decision.

Key David Cameron ally Zac Goldsmith admits he's a 'non-dom' By Kirsty Walker Last updated at 2:08 PM on 29th November 2009 David Cameron's green adviser Zac Goldsmith is facing calls to resign after admitting that he claims non-domicile tax status.

THE gross injustices of the whole 'climate change' issue are embodied in the unfortunate predicament of the world's small island states.

A white floor length embroidered dress, a necklace of giant pigeon red rubies and diamonds and a magnificent tiara....the Queen was dressed to impress at the state banquet given by Trinidadian President George Maxwell Richards on the first day of the two day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings .

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning welcomes India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the National Academy for the Performing Arts for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of government meeting in Port-Of-Spain yesterday Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began his three-day visit to the Caribbean nation with a call to nearly a ...

Countries backing Afghanistan's government are going to demand that it meet specific security benchmarks, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday, outlining a plan to let foreign troops gradually hand control to local forces.

Latin American leaders have a chance to defuse some of their continent's political tensions at a summit opening Sunday.

Canada won't support Sri Lankan bid Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives in Port of Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, as he is greeted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs Protocol Officer Maxine Barnett on Thursday November 26, 2009.

HAVANA: Cuba began its biggest military maneouvres in five years yesterday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States.

A man who spent his childhood in Ellis, who was murdered in 1982 while doing mission work in Guatemala for the Catholic Church, has taken the first steps toward sainthood.

Central America is the region where violence against women is most frequent: more than 1,500 women were murdered this year, reported many international organizations.

Costa Rica promised to restore ties with the Honduras after it elects a new president on Sunday, joining other nations in rejecting ousted President Manuel Zelaya's insistence that recognizing the vote would legitimize a June coup.

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Gordon Brown has vowed to block Sri Lanka's bid to host the next summit of Commonwealth leaders, in retaliation for the Colombo government's handling of its military campaign against the Tamil Tigers earlier this year.

Haiti's electoral council has banned the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from next year's legislative elections.

Commonwealth leaders will put the world's small island states at the frontline of the climate debate when they meet on Friday to press for an effective international pact against global warming .

Harper heads for Copenhagen after all Prime Minister Stephen Harper leaves Ottawa on Thursday, November 26, 2009, for Port of Spain to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

"Turkey, Costa Rica eye better trade, political ties www.chinaview.cn 2009-11-26 07:21:10 ANKARA, Nov.

Australian authorities have slapped U.S. private equity firm TPG with a bill for 678 million Australian dollars in taxes and penalties, a move that is sending chills down the spines of foreign investors.

Getting to and from Montserrat this winter has gotten a lot easier. Ferry service will launch Dec.

The political party of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide will be barred from legislative elections scheduled for Feb.

Sunday's election will likely accomplish what the plotters of a coup set out to do five months ago: end the political career of leftist President Manuel Zelaya and replace him with a more moderate leader from Honduras' establishment.

Majority State-owned company, Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago , has moved to set up the country's first 4G wireless broadband network, and some of the first people to stake their claim to the plug and play Internet technology will be the Heads of Government touching down later this week for the Commonwealth Heads of Government ...

Cubans are scrambling to turn off lights and appliances and children are going door to door reminding them to do just that under a government threat of dreaded blackouts if energy consumption is not reduced through the end of the year.

Voters in the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines decide Wednesday whether to break their ties with Britain's monarchy, even as Queen Elizabeth II is making a rare visit to the region.

Interior official visits stimulus recipient Solar water heater program benefits from federal funds By CRISTIAN SIMESCU Saturday, November 21st 2009 Daily News Photo by CRISTIAN SIMESCU Paul Larsen, left, describes a thermo-siphon solar water heater for Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Interior Tony Babauta and Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen.

London- Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip flew to Bermuda Tuesday to join in three days of celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the island's settlement by the British, Buckingham Palace said.

Joan Baruffaldi&#8217 two brothers, Tom and Robert, were in court in Woburn yesterday.

ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands -Tennessee beat DePaul on Sunday night in the type of game it likely would have lost last year.

The Opposition party, the United National Congress, will be preparing a document to hand over to the Commonwealth Secretariat in hopes of painting a 'clear picture' of what Trinidad and Tobago is really like, says Leader of the Opposition Basdeo Panday.

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Monday the United States has weakened efforts to reverse the coup that ousted him, while a U.S. envoy says his country has clearly opposed the ouster and will examine upcoming elections closely for fairness.

Buss-up-shut, a type of paratha, along with other local curries washed down with coconut water will be on the menu of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he arrives in this Trinidad and Tobago capital for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Nov 27-29. Orvin Sanes, director of food and beverage at the downtown Crowne Plaza, said that ...

Managua, Nov 22 Nicaragua''s media highlights Sunday that an estimate of 350,000 people participated in the pro-government march on Saturday in favor of President Daniel Ortega.

Daily News Photo by CRISTIAN SIMESCU V.I. Waste Management Authority environmental program manager Emmeline Simmonds, right, speaks during a check presentation to the Boys and Girls Club.

The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.

A large part of the world's fate could be settled right here in Port of Spain in the next few days.

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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Updated: November 22, 2009, 2:53 PM / The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba, the communist nation said on Saturday it would hold a military exercise this week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.

The tiny country of Costa Rica has giant plans to help change the world for the better, but for that to happen, serious issues need to be looked at closely.

West Indies captain Chris Gayle, who left his team's tour of Australia to be with his sick mother, will head Down Under tomorrow and hopes to play in the first Test, Jamaican media has reported.

Hair tucked into a surgical cap, eyes hidden behind thick-framed magnifying glasses, Devi Shetty leans over the sawed open chest of an 11-year-old boy, using bright blue thread to sew an artificial aorta onto his stopped heart.

Thousands of pro- and anti-government protesters took to the streets of Nicaragua's capital Saturday, protesting and backing President Daniel Ortega's bid to remain in power.

Your AT&T "works anywhere in the world" phone? I have news for you. Forget about Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, because every country in Central America has their own proprietary telephone companies, with licenses and coverage that may or may not overlap into adjoining countries.

An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years have pleaded guilty, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said.

A local woman vacationing with her husband in the Virgin Islands was found hanged in her hotel room.

Honduras's post-coup de facto leader said on Friday he would give up his presidential duties for a week, a step Washington welcomed as a way to help ease a five-month-old political crisis.

The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.

By Sir Ronald Sanders As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is about to take place in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago's capital, there is not much hope among its member states that it will achieve anything more than declarations without the means to implement them.

This Nov. 13, 2009 photo shows Leonardo Sanchez, 12, holding a market sign that reads in Spanish "take advantage," as he works with family members in the La Merced market in Mexico City.

Crime Stoppers International launched the Caribbean's 'Most Wanted' website on Tuesday night.

The family of a Lynnfield woman who was found hanged in her hotel room in the Virgin Islands earlier this month is asking the Massachusetts courts for permission to conduct a second autopsy, saying her death remains suspicious.

Charlotte Kimelman with well-wishers outside the St. Thomas Synagogue. Family and friends gathered at the St.

Cuban blogger Yoani SA nchez was astounded this week by President Barack Obama's decision to respond a written questionnaire SA nchez submitted to the White House.

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 19 - Thanks to effective social policies and measures that have strengthened the economy, most of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have managed to weather the impact of the global recession, although poverty has risen slightly for the first time since 2002.

Shaken up doesn't begin to describe it. Ever since the Remembrance Day burning of Peter Nygard's paradisical home in The Bahamas -- his "nirvana resort," as it's been called -- the Canadian fashion tycoon, I hear, has felt a rare, humbling vex.

President of the Joint Consultative Council, Winston Riley, left, presents the Building Contractor of the Year Award to John Connon, managing director of NH International Ltd, during Saturdaya s award function.

Maine Fast Fact : In 1853, Maine bought the rest of the land within its boundaries that was still owned by Massachusetts.

Carrie who? Two former Miss Universe contestants are stealing the sex tape scandal spotlight, after a home video hit the web featuring Miss Japan 2008 and Miss Trinidad and Tobago 2008 engaged -- fully engaged -- in a hardcore three-way with some dude, reportedly a professional photographer.

Honduras' chief diplomat in Miami flips to page 117 of his nation's election manual and insists that his fellow countrymen living here must vote for their new president at the consulate in South Florida.

A new shipping line is launching in South Florida to serve Haiti, with the former director of the Port of Miami at the company's helm.

Hundreds of students lobbed homemade bombs at Congress on Tuesday to protest government plans to cut university funding, as pro-and anti-government demonstrators prepared to square off at the weekend in Managua.

The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council should be seen as onshore financial centres and not tax havens, a lawyer at a leading international firm has said.

Nicaraguan police have seized a large cache of weapons and explosives from suspected members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel after a police car chase outside Managua, a spokeswoman said.

Daily News Photo by SEAN McCOY Charter yachts and cruise ships herald the start of tourist season after a summer of slumping arrivals.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded the territory $1.6 million to begin burying power lines on Main Street in Charlotte Amalie - a move officials think could save millions in damages if a hurricane should strike.

Gender-based violence and sexual abuse are serious public security problems in Central America, and Nicaragua is no exception, according to reports by United Nations agencies and women's organisations.

Seven colleges will have representatives available to speak with public and private high school students and their families at a free College Fair from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Monday in the Marin Center at Antilles School.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 16 The November 29 elections in Honduras will only worsen the crisis unleashed in Honduras after the military coup, due to the vast peoples'' rejection to hold elections under the de facto regime.

Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals.

President of the Trinidad and Tobago's Contractors Association , Mikey Joseph believes if the Uff Commission of Inquiry fails the association should have to accept part of the blame.

High stakes problem gambler Harry Kakavas was lent $US1 million by a Bahamian casino despite knowing he owed $US5 million to casinos in Las Vegas, a court has heard.

Lloyds Banking Group, which is 43% state-owned, has failed in its latest attempt to avoid a A 54m tax bill.

Costa Rican police seized over two tonnes of cocaine in San Francisco de Dos Rios, in the southern suburbs of the capital, San Jose.

The V.I. Resource Conservation and Development Council received an Outstanding Community Level Participation award at the 22nd annual U.S. Coral Reef Task Force meeting in Puerto Rico last week.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing.

David Gimelfarb disappeared into the Costa Rican rainforest nearly three months ago.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 12 The crisis generated by the coup in Honduras will last a long time after the de facto regime failed to comply with the Tegucigalpa/San Jos agreement, warned local press on Thursday.

The lush but poor Caribbean island of Dominica will allow an export company to ship billions of gallons of its river water to parched countries around the globe, officials said Saturday.

Police investigations mostly move pretty slowly. Facts need to be checked, parties need to be interviewed, and forensic evidence needs to be gathered.

By Laurence Fletcher and Chris Vellacott LONDON, England -- The Cayman Islands hope more hedge fund managers and their families will move to the off-shore centre as it seeks to boost tax revenues, the Caribbean territory's premier told Reuters.

Cuba's state-run economy has been in crisis mode for years, but it's facing some especially sobering arithmetic now.

The University of the Virgin Islands will host a series of free environmental health and safety workshops on its St.

Creditors of Saad Investments Company Ltd held their first official meeting on Thursday, accountancy firm Grant Thornton said, taking a next step in the troubled firm's restructuring process.

Assailants fired an anti-tank grenade toward the building housing ballots for the upcoming Honduran presidential elections, which are taking place under the shadow of a four-month crisis caused by a coup, police said Friday.

Trinidad and Tobago is officially in a recession. Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams confirmed yesterday what the business sector and the labour force have been reeling from for months-that the local economy contracted for the third consecutive quarter.

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya autographs the t-shirt of a supporter at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, Nov 8, 2009.

Cuban sportsmen Hermes Riveri, Leandro Penalver, Jose Godoy and Blas Beato will join the Central America and the Caribbean Athletics Hall of Fame, local media said on Thursday.

Washington, Nov 10 The Organization of American States is assessing Tuesday the crisis in Honduras, following the failure of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord designed precisely to put an end to the political turmoil caused by for the coup d'etat. Countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Brazil requested last week that the issue was ...

Demand for sailings out of New Orleans on the Carnival Triumph far exceed what could have been accommodated by the smaller Carnival Fantasy, which it replaced.

Caracas, Nov 11 Cuban Parliament President, Ricardo Alarcon, demanded from the United States signs of change towards Latin America with the liberation of the five Cuban anti-terrorists in US jails and the arrest of infamous terrorists in that country.

Fraud investigators have opened an inquiry into the activities of a hedge fund based in the Caribbean and with links to London.

Haiti's new prime minister was inaugurated Wednesday and promised to attract more investment and create jobs, while forging good relations with lawmakers who have ousted two heads of government in as many years.

Guatemalan Franciscan priest Fr. Miguel Angel Hernandez, who had been assigned to a parish in Ocotepeque and who had disappeared last weekend, was found dead in a province of eastern Guatemala.

The Associated Press on Wednesday announced changes in its Latin America and Caribbean operations, closing a service limited to Puerto Rican news within Puerto Rico while adding editors and reporters elsewhere for the expanding Spanish market in the Americas.

Henry Kimelman, whose fundraising and support for Sen. George McGovern in the 1972 presidential campaign earned him a spot on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list," has died.

FBI and IRS agents on the scene in front of Scott Rothstein's Ft. Lauderdale home, Monday.

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.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 5 The Honduran National Congress has yet to define when to examine the restitution of Manuel Zelaya as President, stance that popular leaders describe as a delay by local coupists.

Guatemala, Nov 6 The Vicepresidents of Central America and the Dominican Republic meet today in this capital for their second regional meeting with the environment as central topic of debate.

A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be given broadcast access to their pastors.

United Nations peacekeeping forces will not leave Haiti any time soon as the country, one of the world's poorest, remains fragile, the Brazilian general in charge of the U.N. troops told Reuters.

Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression on Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S. Ida had winds of 75 mph when it hit the central Nicaraguan coast on Thursday, but it quickly lost force as it slogged inland and winds were down to about 35 mph Friday morning, ...

Lee County and Southwest Florida are now in the five-day tracking cone for Tropical Depression Ida.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.

Hurricane Ida made landfall in eastern Nicaragua Thursday with 75 mph winds, but degraded to a near-stationary tropical storm, U.S. forecasters reported.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will stand. CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands has signed into a law a 30-year revenue deal with the owners of locally produced Cruzan Rum, which has a heritage on St.

A verdict of not guilty has been returned in the case of a man accused of murdering a Saskatchewan construction worker employed in the Cayman Islands.

The Netherlands Antilles has launched an amnesty program that will provide residence and working papers for thousands of illegal immigrants.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya is asking the Obama administration why, after pressing for his reinstatement, it now says it will recognize upcoming Honduran elections even if he isn't returned to power first.

Tropical storm Ida formed in the southwestern Caribbean on Wednesday, quickly gaining muscle and threatening to become a hurricane before making landfall in Nicaragua.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla has accidentally shot himself in the leg at a target range in Nicaragua.

Prosecutors in the British Virgin Islands say a Rhode Island man convicted of killing his wife while scuba diving should serve at least 25 years in prison before getting parole.

A National Guard master sergeant from Rockford is among three people killed in a small plane crash last week in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Navigational device maker Garmin Ltd. is expected to report lower third-quarter profits and revenues from a year ago.

Honduran lawmakers on Tuesday put off a vote on whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya and asked the Supreme Court for its view, bucking outside pressure to quickly end a four-month political crisis.

U.S. Virgin Islands police have identified the people killed in a small plane crash last week as a man from Tennessee and two residents of the Caribbean territory.

In this June 29, 2009 file photo, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, second left, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, third left, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, fourth left, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa pose for a photo at the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas group, or ALBA, in ...

A Jamaican town where a "Gay Eradication Day" had been proclaimed expelled all gay and lesbian residents on Oct.

If you're looking for an appropriate Revival Assembly for the male member of the species Bovinae, the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament fits the Bill, the Motion and the Resolution.

The front page of The Sunday Gleaner , October 25, "One Love at risk ... Amnesty wants 'full freedom for Jamaican gays'," added more ammunition to the already heated discussion about gays in Jamaica.

Allen Stanford, the financier awaiting trial on charges that he ran a $7bn Ponzi scheme, will be stripped of his knighthood in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, an official said on Monday.

The U.S. secretary of labor and a former Chilean president were named Sunday to a commission tasked with monitoring the creation of a power-sharing government in Honduras, under a U.S.-brokered agreement to end the nation's 4-month-old political crisis.

In 1973, nearly 40 years ago, I was one of the journalists on the new JBCTV public affairs programme, Press Conference - later renamed Firing Line.

Via Trinidad & Tobago's Newsday : Young mom had H1N1 . Excerpt: Officials at the South West Regional Health Authority yesterday confirmed the woman who died last Friday, had the deadly Influenza A/H1N1 virus.

A British journalist has been missing in Costa Rica for more than 10 days. Missing Michael Dixon pictured on the Facebook site set up to help find him Michael Dixon was last seen at a hotel in Playa Tamarindo on the morning of Monday, October 19.

The priestesses known as mambos take part in a possession ceremony in Port-au-Prince. The Jour des Morts is a somewhat dark time to celebrate.

THE Honduran tragicomedy that has consumed the hemisphere's diplomats for months is at an end.

Former local priest John Duarte was arraigned in Windsor Tuesday on multiple charges of molesting teenage boys in Haiti at the mission he helped found.