Company Watch - Copa Airlines.
Aug 20, 2007 Copa Airlines, subsidiary of Copa Holdings, has been named best airline in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean for the fourth consecutive year in a survey conducted by well-known market research company SkyTrax. Aug 17, 2007 Copa Airlines flew 466.8 million RPMs...

Half of terror toll due to Islamist extremism.
Byline: Shankar Raghuraman While India has lost 3,674 lives to terrorism-related incidents over three years and three months, the toll more than all of North America, South America, Central America, Europe and Eurasia put together, the number of those injured or taken hostage is no respite. ...

William "Bill" J. Gaidanowicz, 56.
TEMPLETON William "Bill" J. Gaidanowicz, 56 years of age, passed away 3/27/07 in Belize City, Belize, Central America. He was born in Templeton, MA, son of Boleslaw and Grace Gaidanowicz, and was a resident of Templeton for many years. He is survived by his sister, Rebecca Gauthier and her...

Darby Joins with CABEI and FMO of Holland to Manage a Banking Fund for Central America.
U.S. Treasury and World Bank Officials Participate with The Partners at Agreement Signing Event WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nicholas F. Brady, Chairman of Darby Overseas Investments, today announced that Darby will be managing PROBANCO - Central American Banking Growth Fund on behalf...

New World Network Lands Cable in Panama and Continues Central America Expansion.
Cable En Route to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala MIAMI, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- New World Network, Ltd., a Bermuda-based company and the principal owner in the Americas Region Caribbean Optical-ring System (ARCOS) cable network, completed its first Central American segment by landing the ARCOS...

CAFTA: stepping stone to the FTAA: the Central American Free Trade Agreement would extend NAFTA-style regulations to Central America on the road to an FTAA-based supranational government of the Americas.
On February 20, President Bush officially notified Congress that he intends to sign the recently negotiated Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). That letter of notification started the clock ticking on the president's so-called fast track trade negotiating authority, which Congress reauthorized in 2002. Under the fast track rules,...

Greetings from Guatemala: Central America begins another deadly season of drought. (margin notes).
THE SMALL CHILD REGARDS HER VISITORS WITH shining eyes and a happy, if slightly perplexed, smile. Her thin body held rigidly against the back of a baby's chair, she is no bigger than a toddler herself, though a staffer from our hosts on this poverty tour of Guatemala, Catholic...

SITEL and Cable & Wireless Panama to Form Alliance; Providing World-Class Contact Center Services to Central America.
BALTIMORE and PANAMA CITY, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- SITEL Corporation (NYSE: SWW), the world's leading contact center expert, and Cable & Wireless (CW), a global supplier of Internet, data, and voice solutions to business customers, announced today that their affiliates have signed a letter of intent to...

Telefonica Central America Signs Exclusive Agreement With iNNERHOST to Provide Complex Managed Hosting and Applications Services to Its Corporate Customers.
The Latest Hosted Microsoft Applications for Building, Deploying and Managing Web-Based Solutions Will Be Available to Telefonica Customers In Guatemala and El Salvador The Service Will Be Offered Via Telefonica.net, a New Division of Telefonica Dedicated to Offering Information and Services...

Central Americans Frustrated With Job Creation Efforts; Opinions on the effect of DR-CAFTA mixed throughout region.
Byline: Jesus Rios Synopsis: Central Americans are not satisfied with efforts to create quality jobs in their countries. In none of the five countries surveyed -- Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador -- does the percentage satisfied with job creation efforts reach 40%. In El...