More than 90,000 Nicaraguan families in the northern departments of Jinotega and Nueva Segovia will benefit from a $40 million World Bank project to regulate property rights and modernize government institutions charged with issuing property titles, according to a World...

It wasn’t so much goodbye as “hasta la próxima.” Less than three months after pulling out of the Seaside Mariana project, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, the largest hotel group in the world, is back in Nicaragua today to announce a...

LITTLE CORN ISLAND—On the northern coast of Little Corn Island, a new boutique resort is expected to open within the next few months. The Yemaya Island Retreat will feature 16 luxury cabins, each equipped with hot running water, 24-hour electricity,...

(posted Jan. 22, 2:40 p.m.)- The Nicaraguan government calculates its budding economy will attract $11.5 billion in foreign direct investment by 2016, according to presidential advisor Paul Oquist. In an interview this morning with official Sandinista TV, Oquist said Nicaragua...

Two of the biggest names in tourism have terminated their partnership with Seaside Mariana Spa & Golf Resort, a massive development project planned for Nicaragua’s central Pacific coast.  Wyndham Hotel Group and Nicklaus Design have independently issued termination letters announcing...

(posted Nov. 15, 9:00 a.m.)- The Sandinista government announced yesterday that it has finalized its contract with Chinese telecom company China Great Wall Industry to start building Central America’s first satellite, which will be ready for launch in 2015. Orlando...

The storm clouds from the global financial crisis are finally dissipating over Nicaragua’s central-Pacific coastline. After two years of hunkering down to wait for a break in the inclement investment climate, Milagro del Mar Beach & Golf Resort resumed construction...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Nicaragua’s 4% economic growth this year might be modest, but the Sandinista government’s growing portfolio of proposed megaprojects is anything but. The government’s megaproject-development plans, which already included a $500 million deep-water port, a $6.2 billion oil refinery, and...

Malacatoya, like so much of Nicaragua, is desperately poor, stunningly lush and ceaselessly cheerful. But this close-knit community outside Granada is haunted by a recurring ecological nightmare that visits the municipality every rainy season. For residents here, the first storm...

It was a revolutionary move to introduce bamboo-based homes as an eco-friendly solution to the housing crisis in Rosita following Hurricane Felix’s destructive tear across the RAAN in September, 2007. Until recently, the options available for reconstruction were either concrete...