Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast as a record-breaking Category 5 monster storm today in an area home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians.

Planes shuttled tourists from Caribbean island resorts in a desperate airlift today as Hurricane Felix bore down on Honduras and Belize.

Hurricane Dean swept across the Yucatan peninsula, toppling trees, power lines and houses as it bore down on the heart of Mexico’s oil industry.

Hurricane Dean ploughed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico today as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, lashing ancient Mayan ruins and heading for modern oil installations.

Rescue workers in Guatemala say they have pulled at least 40 bodies from a massive mudslide and found 20 more dead in a swollen river, raising to 246 the number of people killed from five days of pounding rains in Central America and Mexico.

Hurricane Adrian slammed into El Salvador's coast today, President Tony Saca said, cutting off power and forcing officials to close schools and evacuate 14,000 people.

AS world leaders gathered yesterday to coordinate aid for earthquake victims in Asia, doctors warned another 150,000 could die if basic needs such as water were not restored by the end of the week.

TRÓCAIRE is appealing for funds to buy gifts of sheep, cashew nut trees and solar powered ovens for poor people around the world this Christmas.

PEOPLE are starving to death in the coffee-growing mountains of Paradise.

ON October 27, I wonder how many anniversary supplements and television documentaries will remind us “lest we forget”? We have already forgotten.

A businessman with a zero tolerance anti-crime policy appeared to be heading for victory today in Honduras’ presidential election, over a former teacher who promised better education.