Central America News

When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth.

Pall-bearers carry the flag-draped coffin of Dudley Thompson from the Holy Trinity Cathedral at North Street, Kingston, yesterday.

In this Wednesday Oct. 12, 2011 file photo, Haiti's President Michel Martelly, center, shakes hands with former strongman Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, right, during a meeting in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Editor's note: Charles Garcia is the CEO of Garcia Trujillo, a business focused on the Hispanic market, and the author of "Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows." A native of the Republic of Panama, he now lives in Florida.

Police in the U.S. Virgin Islands say they have solved an 11-year-old case involving a missing police officer.

Trade barriers , transport costs and ignorance of the dynamics of South American markets are causing this country to miss golden opportunities represented by the region, the newspaper La Nacion reported Monday.

Belated wishes to: former MP and Education Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson, who celebrated her very special day on the first, with the partying to follow later today.

WASHINGTON - Theslow pace of rebuilding in Haiti two years after a devastating earthquake has demoralized Haitians and could destabilize the country, Prime Minister Garry Conille said Thursday.

Dark Star Orchestra is thrilled to announce the band's first Jamaican excursion entitled Jam in the Sand .

Order: President John F Kennedy asked an aide to buy him 1,000 Cuban cigars - the day before he authorized the U.S. trade embargo.

An increasing crime rate is threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, states a new United Nations report that calls for the right mix of policies and programmes to tackle the problem.

The Honduran armed forces acknowledged Wednesday that 22 grenade launchers were stolen from an armoury in 2010.

A family was reunited Wednesday in this capital 25 years after being separated by the country's 1960-1996 civil war.

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Search crews recovered 22 more bodies from the sea off the coast of the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 47 after an overloaded migrant smuggling vessel capsized.

On Jan. 30, more than a year after former "President for Life" Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti, a Port-au-Prince judge concluded his lengthy investigation into the ex-dictator's brutal, 1971-86 rule.

While we are waiting [for better water and sewage systems], we know that there's a safe and effective oral cholera vaccine that we can help prevent people from getting cholera again.

A verdict is expected Wednesday in the case of two men charged in the beating death of a Canadian man who was on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

The stench lingered and flies maintained interest in the scene a day after the body of 35-year-old Stacy-Ann Smith was removed from her Portsmouth home in Portmore, St Catherine.

This March, Aruba celebrates a youthful 64th birthday that commemorates the day when the Kingdom of Netherlands granted this tiny island in the southern Caribbean autonomous status.