Central America News

San Pedro Sula's bishop, Romulo Emiliani, told The Associated Press that the Mara Salavatrucha and 18th Street gangs will begin their truce on Tuesday.

Picture yourself on a private balcony just outside your luxurious stateroom sipping an adult beverage and looking at lush tropical islands as your ship sails through the Caribbean.

May 24th, 2013 Attorney General, Jorge Chavarria, threatened yesterday to prosecute and possibly jail any official who discloses any information to the press surrounding the investigation of President Laura Chinchilla's recent trip to Peru, in which she flew in a private jet linked to Gabriel Morales Fallon, a Colombian businessman suspected of ... (more)

"Operation Weed Whacker" was set up to remove at least $1 million in high-grade grass from the region's marijuana black market by shutting down a group of dealers who brought about 3,670 pounds of pot into the area over the last year, according to Philly.com. The yearlong wiretap investigation led to the arrests of brothers Dennis and Jeffrey ... (more)

The presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru met on Thursday in Cali, Colombia, for the seventh Pacific Alliance meeting to discuss the economic integration of Latin America.

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.