So you are thinking about Nicaragua?
Maybe as a place to live, invest, buy real estate, or spend a few weeks a year.  Well, you have definently made a wise choice.  Nicaragua unquestionably is one of the best countries in the World to live full or part time, invest in a local business, buy real estate [...]

MONKEY POINT, Nicaragua — Last year, a delegation of Iranians and other foreigners arrived at this tiny, remote coastal village in speedboats. They came to map out plans to build a $350 million deep-water port and a new city.
The three-dozen families who live here weren’t pleased to see them. For more than two hours, they [...]

Honduras’ de facto authorities expelled a delegation from the Organization of American States (OAS) that sought to enter into a dialogue to end the three-month-old standoff that has gripped the Central American country.
The move signaled a deepening of the crisis not just within Honduras, but between the country’s de facto government and the international community, [...]

Managua – The Health Ministry (MINSA) of Nicaragua has begun a campaign to prevent 4 types of the dengue virus, according to reports from this Ministry.
The disease affected 458 people only in the capital, 14 people had hemorrhagicdengue, while one person died, according to MINSA information.
Up to the present an increase in 42 percent in dengue infected [...]

Before poring over numerous resolutions and hashing out this year’s budget at its regular meeting Tuesday night, the Board of Education recognized students who participated in service learning trips to Nicaragua and Mali withBuildOn.
“These students have helped transform lives in developing countries brick by brick,” said Margaret Chiu, assistant superintendent of high school Leadership Education for Administrator [...]

Managua, -  Nearly two thousand people are infected with A(H1N1) in Nicaragua just four months after the first case was reported.
According to the Health Ministry (Minsa), 1,999 people were affected by this pandemic, 962 of them are cured, 9 died and 28 are receiving medical treatment.
According to Guillermo Gonzalez, head of Minsa, 48 percent of [...]

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on the sidelines of the 64th meeting of the UN General Assembly conferred with his counterparts from Armenia and Nicaragua and discussed issues of mutual interest with them.
In a meeting with his counterpart from Nicaragua Samuel Santos Lopez, Mottaki by referring to Iran’s principled policy on expansion of ties with developing [...]

As deliberations over a possible free-trade agreement (FTA) between Costa Rica and China continue, opposition from some of Costa Rica’s leading business associations is growing stronger.
“The country has not made a case as to why the country needs this free-trade agreement,” Tomás Pozuelo, president of the Food Industry Chamber (CACIA), told The Tico Times on [...]

In the midst of what some officials have called Costa Rica’s worst drought in memory, Ricardo Sancho, president of the Costa Rican Water and Sewer Institute (AyA), has warned of water shortages in the near future if the nation’s citizens don’t begin to conserve the resource.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Sancho said the country [...]

Honduras’ deposed President Manuel Zelaya said Wednesday that at least 10 people died in Tuesday’s violent clashes between police and his supporters.
“I have information of at least 10 people dead in the country,” Zelaya said in a phone conference with reporters Wednesday from the Brazilian Embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, according to the [...]

Legions of teens and young adults go abroad on short mission trips, hoping to make a difference in the lives of those in need. Fewer immerse themselves in the host country long enough to learn just how complicated making a difference can be. It takes training, not to mention inner strength, to perform in the [...]

(Media-Newswire.com) – BOCAY, Nicaragua — Humane Society International is having an environmental education workshop in the rural town of Bocay in Nicaragua as part of HSI’s environmentally friendly cacao production program. The workshops are aimed at schoolchildren in seven schools in Bocay and take place Sept. 21-26.
The goal of the workshops is to contribute to [...]

MOULTONBORO — An effort to help the people of El Hatillo, Nicaragua, is underway thanks to a Peace Corps volunteer from Moultonboro.
Danielle Costanza was assigned to volunteer in Nicaragua, where she is starting an effort to collect seeds for local farmers and improve the failing infrastructure of one village.
Costanza grew up in Moultonboro and attended [...]

NEW YORK — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the ousted Honduran president sneaked back to his country with the help of Honduran military personnel.
Chavez says ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya traveled by plane, in the trunk of a car and in tractors from Nicaragua to Honduras in a secret operation aided by supporters in the [...]

Managua – Nicaragua and Cuba on Friday set a joint commission here to evaluate the expansion of bilateral cooperation.
Nicaraguan Development, Industry and Commerce Minister Orlando Solorzano said the commission will analyze the possibilities of expanding the commercial ties between both nations.
Solorzano said that Nicaragua is interested in exporting to Cuba agriculture, livestock and industrial products, [...]

LAS VEGAS, NV — 09/18/09 — Beneficial Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BFHJ), a casino investment and management holding company, today announced that it has reached a tentative agreement to purchase seven profitable gaming establishments in Nicaragua. After completion, Beneficial will have eight Nicaraguan locations.
The Company intends to present its initial deposit within one week to ten [...]

A federal judge in Miami said he may decide that Westlake Village-based Dole Food Inc. can’t be forced to pay a Nicaraguan court’s $97 million verdict awarded to banana plantation workers, Bloomberg News reported.
In a Sept. 4 hearing, U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck said that he didn’t see how he could sustain the Nicaraguan [...]

Rio Rancho High School senior Louis Trujillo, a three-time state high school champion and a three-time national champion, finished third last month in the Pan American Games in Managua, Nicaragua.
Trujillo was among 24 U.S. athletes on the Cadet level that traveled to Managua to compete August 14-16. The event featured athletes from North, South and [...]

The Center for Development in Central America (CDCA) is a non-profit organization seeking to address human needs created by poverty in the Western Hemisphere’s second poorest nation by helping communities become self-sufficient, sustainable, democratic entities; by working with Nicaraguan communities to help them realize their own goals, rather than bringing in “ready-made solutions.”
We’ve spent the [...]

Managua -Delegations from Cuba and Nicaragua started Friday works of the 11th Intergovernmental Joint Commission to foster relations between both nations, members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America.
Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Rodrigo Malmierca, who presides over his country’s delegation to the meeting, arrived in this capital on Thursday.
Rosario [...]