Central America News

The chief of India's federal investigation agency says Indians have illegally deposited an estimated $500bn in overseas tax havens.

The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude-5.8 earthquake shook the central and Pacific coastal regions of Costa Rica early Monday morning.

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck 50 miles south of San Jose, Costa Rica at 4:55 a.m. local time today, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Lionel Richie and Shania Twain were in the Bahamas last week taping a video for their duet "Endless Love." According to The Bahamas Weekly , the clip was filmed in locations on Nassau and Paradise Island.

A property developer who attempted to build a luxury hotel and spa resort in the Caribbean has been accused of bribery involving high-ranking Government ministers.

A hotly awaited documentary on Bob Marley has premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival, tracking his journey from bullied biracial Jamaican boy to reggae superstar.

Members of the congregation sing during GraceKennedy's 90th anniversary service at Jamaica College Karl Hendrickson Auditorium in St Andrew yesterday.

So Mitt Romney doesn't "care about the very poor." But what about the rest of the American political class who jumped all over him for his recent gaffe? Its loud protestations aside, how truly interested is Washington in reducing poverty? That question occurred to me during an interview with Puerto Rican Gov.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda was honored with the unveiling of a statue in his honor at the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame in the Dominican Republic, the team announced recently.

In this Sunday Feb. 5, 2012 file photo, a policeman checks a coffin containing the remains of a drowning victim at the Elupina Cordero Hospital in Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic.

The quake, at a depth of 1 kilometre struck at 2:43pm and felt in the communities of Linda Vista and Quebradas de Arriba de Perez Zeledon.

Party Leader of the Belize Unity Alliance , Robert "Bobby" Lopez, will contest the upcoming March 7th general election in the Belize Rural South Constituency.

Although Jamaica is usually associated with reggae music, visitors' first experience of live music will probably be a mento band, either at the airport or by their hotel's pool or bar, on a cruise ship docked in the harbour, or at one of the government-sponsored festivals found throughout the island.

Getting there: You can fly legally from the United States to Cuba only if you're traveling with a licensed travel service provider.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney responds to a heckler during a campaign stop, Friday, Feb.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Police in the Dominican Republic have raided the office and home of the manager of an online newspaper suspected of hacking into people's emails.

Wilmot 'Motty' Perkins Born: September 3, 1931 Signed out: Friday, February 10, 2012 Damion Mitchell, News Editor The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre Tributes have been pouring in for late talk-show host Wilmot 'Motty' Perkins.

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.