Nicaragua constructing nine artificial islands to boost tourism
Nicaragua plans to construct nine artificial islands that it hopes will attract tourism to its southern Caribbean coast, according to Nicaragua’s National Port Company (EPN).…
Colombian police bust ring that smuggled cocaine into Central America, Europe
Thirteen suspected members of a drug ring that smuggled cocaine into Central America and Europe have been arrested in Colombia, the National Police said.…
Nobel Prize awarded for parasitic diseases treatment
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering drugs that led to the development of treatments for debilitating parasitic diseases, including malaria, river blindness and elephantiasis,…
Survivors unlikely as death toll hits 131 in Guatemala City mudslide
Authorities in Guatemala say there is little hope of finding any more survivors from last Thursday’s landslide which swept down on to a town near the capital.…
Is the Arenal Volcano waking from its slumber?
Visitors and residents near the Arenal Volcano have reported seeing plumes of “smoke” rising from the volcano in recent days, sparking fear – or better, hope on the part of…
Burger King closes all 29 of its Costa Rica locations, leaving hundreds unemployed
BK Centroamérica, the company that operated the Burger King franchise in Costa Rica, announced on Monday the total closure of its operations in Costa Rica and the closing of all…
4 Bus drivers, assistant murdered in El Salvador
San Salvador, Oct 5 (EFE).- Four bus drivers and an assistant were murdered on Monday in San Roque, a district in San Salvador province, the Salvadoran Attorney General’s Office said.…
Tourism institute hopes to boost weak domestic tourism
The Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) launched on Friday this season’s “Vamos a Turistear!” campaign for the fourth consecutive year in hopes of boosting weak domestic tourism.…
