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U.S. Travel To Cuba Grows As Restrictions Are Eased

The U.S. government has restricted travel to Cuba for a half-century. However, the Obama administration has gone back to a Clinton-era policy that eased some limitations, and some 400,000 Americans visited Cuba last year.

Vanessa Minnillo didn't invite her brother or mother to her wedding

The TV presenter married singer Nick Lachey in a romantic ceremony in the British Virgin Islands last July but her sibling Vincent wasn’t in attendance as they no longer to speak to each other.

USAid now free to buy goods from companies in poor countries

Revised procurement regulations mean that firms in developing countries can, for the first time, be granted contracts from the US agency for international development Pallets of food, water and supplies at the airport in Port-au-Prince in January 2010, as part of the response to the earthquake in Haiti.

'After Earth' Begins Filming Here

We wonder if someone inA the film industryA knows something bad about Costa Rica that we haven’t reported yet.

Cuba producing sugar with new technology

Cuba has begun to employ a new technology to produce white sugar, a measure that improves its quality, avoids the refining process and reduces the cost of manufacture, a media report said Sunday.

Jean-Claude Duvalier should be tried for more than corruption

Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and his wife arrive at the Palace of Justice in Port-au-Prince. Why Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti’s “president for life” from 1971 to 1986, decided to return to his native land a year ago is a mystery.

17 dead, 13 rescued after migrant boat capsizes

Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, officials said Sunday.

First Ticos Trapped In Panama Back Home

First Ticos Trapped In Panama Back Home Paso Canoas – The first group of Ticos trapped in Panama because of the blockade by indigenous, were back in Costa Rica Saturday.

A 'Grounation' downtown

With February being Reggae Month there is no shortage of musical events, but there is one series where the spoken work will take centrestage.

CCJ President Accuses Costa Rica Of Trying To Destroy Court

CCJ President Accuses Costa Rica Of Trying To Destroy Court In an unusual move the president of the Corte Centroamericana de Justicia – Central American Court Of Justice -Francisco Lobo Lara, accused Costa Rica in the Nicaraguan press in trying to shut down the regional body and announced a diplomatic counteroffensive.