Central America News

When Edson Novinyo was growing up in Ghana, he wore sandals made out of recycled car tires, studied from the same books his father had used and developed an interest in aviation from watching birds fly.

Police on Ambergris Caye charged one man for murder on May 23, 2013. He is 23 year old Lucio Salazar, a fisherman of a San Juan Area address in San Pedro Town.

When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American community who do not believe in pacific opposition.

Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt politicians.

The late Honourable Joyce Lilieth Robinson , who died on Sunday, May 12, aged 87, was essentially two persons - the dedicated public servant who stamped her brand on empowerment through education, and the devoted family member and friend for whom no favour was too difficult or inconvenient to grant.

Prime Minister Michael Manley announcing plans for a workers resort development to a press conference at Jamaica House on May 22, 1974.

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.