Colombian company Pacific Rubiales Energy plans to invest $300 million to transport compressed gas to Panama from Colombia.

The devaluation of the lempira is among the topics the International Monetary Fund wants to be discussed during talks with Honduras about a new economic program.

After weathering the financial and economic crisis that crippled global trade, the Panama Canal expects to see a modest rise in revenue this year as the recovery takes time to filter through to the shipping industry.

The World Bank said that it is satisfied with the way that the government of Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan president, is running the economy.

Sharp reductions in the prices of cars using environment-friendly technology are expected in Costa Rica from next month.

The US hotel franchise La Quinta signed a contract with Panama's Interoceanic Hotels for the construction of 13 hotels over the next seven years.

Costa Rica's largest marina is about to open its doors in a move that is hoped to revive the economy and create jobs in the Quepos area.

Cheapflights UK, a leading website in flight price search and comparison, rates China, Rwanda and Nicaragua, in that order, as the season’s top three emerging destinations.

Banks in Central America should have better results during 2010, based on a likely recovery of economic activity.

Central American pay-TV services will accumulate revenues of $7 billion between 2009 and 2014, and account for 4.84 million subscribers by the end of the period, according to a new report from Signals Telecom Consulting.

The average baseball is only used for a few pitches in the U.S. Major Leagues, but for the Costa Ricans who make them each ball is the result of hours of painstaking stitching by hand.

According to the global Manpower Employment Outlook Survey results released today, employers in most major labor markets expect to hire in the second quarter at a pace equal to, or stronger than, the same period last year.

ThermaSource, based in Santa Rosa, California, said it won a contract to drill new wells at a growing geothermal energy complex in Nicaragua.

During 2010, Nicaragua expects to receive a million tourists, according to the head of the nation's tourism institute, Intur, Mario Salinas.

Shinichi Saito, Japan's ambassador to Nicaragua, said it is not true that his country's economic aid to Nicaragua in unconditional.