PANAMA CITY (AFP) – ThePanamanian Congress announced lastweek that the former Howard Air ForceBase – once the U.S. military’s largest airforce base in the...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) –Muslim leaders from 24 countries in LatinAmerica met for three days this week inGuatemala to study ways to improve theimage of...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – Threewomen were assassinated south of thecapital Monday morning, bringing thegrim total of women murdered here thisyear to 220, according to...
MANAGUA – More than 80% ofNicaraguans living here think the countryis heading in the wrong direction, whileonly 13.2% say things are going well,according to...
THE Catholic Church has proposednew sex-ed guidebooks to the Council ofSuperior Education, which is studying theproposal, La Nación reported.The material in the guides adjusts...
YOUNG Costa Ricans place morevalue on protecting the environment thanfostering economic growth, according to acomparative study of political culture inCentral America conducted by the...
THE number of foreign students inCosta Rican public and private elementaryand high schools has more thantripled in 20 years, according to theMinistry of Public...
THE high oil prices reported duringthe past five months are starting to havean effect on Costa Rican gasoline consumption,according to the Costa RicanPetroleum Refinery...
DENGUE has ravaged the country’sCaribbean coast with more tenacity thanother areas this year, claiming 51% of thecountry’s outbreaks of this mosquito transmitteddisease, according to...
PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco onTuesday announced that Women’s AffairsMinister Esmeralda Britton had resignedfrom her post that morning.Pacheco said Britton’s resignation wasvoluntary and sparked by the...
