TUESDAY, MAY 06, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (May 6, 2014)
1. President Ortega meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
2. Colombian Constitutional Court rules on maritime boundary dispute with Nicaragua
3. Tremblers continue with a 4.7 quake near Momotombo; schools still closed
4. Waspam mayor warns of colonizer violence; calls on government to act
5. Record sugar harvest while workers’ kidneys continue to fail
6. Climate change heat wave and August climate change delegation
7. Crime briefs
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (April 29, 2014)
1. Red alert extended for municipalities in departments of Leon and Managua
2. Relations with Costa Rica remain tense
3. Canonization of Pope John Paul II brings back memories
4. Nicaraguan ambassador to US discusses bilateral relations
5. FBI looks for Nicaraguan victims of US pedophile
6. Road improvements advance, if slowly
7. Coffee Commission begins work
8. Twenty-seven years ago Ben Linder was killed by the contras at age 27
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (April 22, 2014)
1. Back to normal as quakes diminish except for a 4.9 trembler in the RAAN
2. Holy Week marked by more people at processions, fewer at beaches
3. Poll shows cost of living to be a concern
4. Suspect detained in murder of US woman
5. Central Bank releases report on foreign assistance
6. Dry season wild fires burning
7. Tributes to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (April 15, 2014)
1. Two dead, 41 injured is toll of a series of earthquakes in Nicaragua
2. Assembly elects 54 high level officials
3. US science journal publishes article on Chronic Renal Failure epidemic
4. More details on resolution of property claims emerge
5. Nicaragua ranks well in UN corruption and security study
6. Economic briefs
TUESDAY, APRIL 08, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (April 8, 2014)
1. Tech work for USAID Cuba destabilization program done in Nicaragua
2. Two Central American presidents-elect promise differing relationships with Nicaragua
3. Political news briefs
4. New Jersey Peaceworks founder Jim Burchell dies at 59
5. Nicaragua seeks final resolution of 1980s property controversy
6. Mayangnas demand faster action on colonizers of nature reserve
7. Nicaragua fighting human trafficking
8. Housing amendment could produce 1,000 more affordable houses
9. More social services being provided
TUESDAY, APRIL 01, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (April 1, 2014)
1. Prisons to get UN inspection in May
2. Delegation identifies indigenous rights gains and challenges
3. An end to the property confiscation cases?
4. Members of Congress want report on US aid to Nicraragua
5. Student retention and other education news
6. Catholic Church hierarchy to dialogue with Ortega
7. Vaccination campaign inoculates tens of thousands
8. No Pay movement gets less sympathy this time around
9. Economic shorts
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (March 25, 2014)
1. Stage set for election of high officials to expired offices
2. Nicaragua makes progress toward Millennium Development Goals
3. Banana workers again rebuffed by US court
4. Russia and Nicaragua maintain strong relations
5. Businesses react to minimum wage increase
6. Tumarin construction logjam finally broken
7. “No incidents” between Nicaraguan and Colombian navies since World Court decision
8. Economic shorts
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (March 18, 2014)
1. FSLN wins majority control of both autonomous regional councils
2. Half a million in loans will expand water and sewer in 19 cities
3. Government increases minimum wage
4. Women recognized for leading role in government
5. Forest protection bill and Bosawas updates
6. National Assembly approves foreign military visits
7. Senior citizens to receive loans from government
8. Fires on the increase
9. Economic shorts
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (March 11, 2014)
1. After Caribbean Coast elections, selection of high level officials on horizon
2. Nicaragua marks International Women’s Day
3. Canal environmental study to be finished in April
4. Hugo Chavez remembered
5. Commercial forestry can accompany protection of the forest
6. Gang membership low as police emphasize reintegration over repression
7. Group fights to restore heritage seeds and food security
8. Professional development of high school teachers begins
TUESDAY, MARCH 04, 2014
Nicaragua News Bulletin (March 4, 2014)
1. Sandinistas win in Caribbean Coast elections
2. Earthquake of 6.4 on Richter scale in Pacific causes no damage or injuries
3. Cardinal Brenes welcomed home by a healthy Ortega and large crowds
4. Demands grow for expulsion of illegal colonizers in the Bosawas
5. Costa Rica files new claim in World Court
6. Russia considering a base in Nicaragua?
7. US accuses Nicaragua of “human rights abuses”
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