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The firefighters’ squad leader is desperate. He races around the building, frantically seeking a glimpse of the two simulated “victims” inside. One of them is probably unconscious. Quickly the leader ponders a tactic. In an instant, he barks an order over the radio to the squad.
Immediately, the squad sets up the water […]

• NewzBytz: Sittin’ on a dock in the lake ---

  There is a new port on the shore of Lake Managua in the capital. Capable of handling small passenger ferries and pleasure craft, the dock cost around $1.3 million to build. It could be a boon for the residents of San Francisco del Norte on the north shore and may be a future link to […]

• NewzBytz: A way out for more exports ---

  By land? A tribulation. By air, by sea… soon better. Off in the top right corner of Nicaragua, steps are being taken to dramatically improve the sea and air transport infrastructure. Airlines flying to the airport in Puerto Cabezas – or Bilwi as it is called in the native Miskito Indian language – have been […]

• NewzBytz: Nicaragua - prince of whales? ---

  The meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Santiago, Chile last June did not resolve much, putting off votes on a renewal of commercial whaling and the establishment of a conservation corridor in the Pacific. They want more time to reach some sort of consensus. Nicaragua’s two-man delegation went with a mandate in favor of […]

• NewzBytz: Coining a bill ---

  There is fresh change in Nicaragua, not the kind promised by Barack Obama and other politicians, but the kind that jingles in your pocket. The Central Bank recently issued a new 10 córdoba coin (worth about 50 US cents) to replace the ratty tattered green bills that are still in circulation.
  But faster than you can […]

• NewzBytz: Recognition from the Big Apple ---

  We’ve known for a long time and after plenty of practice that Nicaragua’s Flor de Caña rum is really good. But having it make the list of “50 things you can do in New York City” published by that city’s Daily News, well that’s a feather in the cap for sure. But with security precautions […]

• NewzBytz: Give us this day our daily barrel ---

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez received mixed reviews for his performance on the platform at the 29th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. It wasn’t so much that he sang a song while at the mike (a bit off key, no chance at being voted Latin American Idol), but he then went on to talk about Fidel […]

• NewzBytz: Brother, where art thou? ---

  If you’ve got it, flaunt it… power that is. And that is what the Sandinista-Liberal pact parties (FSLN-PLC) did with the recent appointments by the National Assembly to the Supreme Court. Now the brother of Arnoldo Alemán, Antonio, is a top magistrate.Arnoldo is the former president convicted of embezzlement of State funds and money laundering […]

• NewzBytz: Watch your wallets! ---

  A light was turned on at the end of the tunnel for former president Arnoldo Alemán. He may see his “prison” sentence cut short on a technicality.
  New reforms to the procedures of Nicaraguan justice have been proposed, including one that calls for court rulings to be made within a stipulated period of time. Many inmates […]

• NewzBytz: Sharp police work ---

  The saber that Nicaragua’s national poet Rubén Darío sported when he was sworn in as Ambassador to Spain was lifted in broad daylight from the museum in León. The National Police Commissioner in that city declared to the press, “We will not rest until the sword is found.”
  It only took three days. Using cutting edge […]

• NewzBytz: This song is my song… ---

  A rebel tune from the insurrection years is at the center of a cultural spat. Carlos Mejía Godoy, perhaps Nicaragua’s most prolific singer-songwriter and certainly one of the better known here and around the world, is at odds with the ruling party, the FSLN, over its use of one of the songs he wrote to […]