TUCSON- Eleven-year-old Silvia may speak a different language, but when her laughter fills one Tucson home there is no translation needed. “She’s a part of our family,” Leah Shoemaker says. Shoemaker is currently Silvia’s “host” mother. Through an organization called Healing the Children, she helped Silvia travel from Honduras to … Read More
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Honduras: $21 million in losses due to decertification of banana plantations
Decertification of fourteen independent banana producers will entail losses of about $21 million to the country provided that the borders are closed to the export of fruit from three farms affected, according to representatives of the agricultural sector. “The country would stop selling about $21 million in exports, plus 4,000 … Read More
China President’s trip to Honduras for the Inauguration of Juan Orlando Hernandez under evaluation
China President’s trip to Honduras still under evaluation according to the vice minister President Ma Ying-jeou’s attendance at the inauguration ceremony of Honduran president-elect Juan Hernandez is still being evaluated, Vice Foreign Minister Vanessa Shih said Monday. An invitation to the ceremony has been received, Shih said at a hearing … Read More
Media executive killed in Honduras
San Pedro Sula, Honduras After the capture of the alleged killer of the Executive Héctor Leonel Flores, the San Pedro Sula Court, ordered the judicial arrest for Marvin Edgardo Cruz this Sunday during the hearing of which the accused was ordered. Once a special unit team of deaths of high … Read More
Canadian – Volunteering in Honduras “It’s a completely different lifestyle”
Elise Wieregna has been volunteering to teach kindergarten and grades 1 and 2 English at the Utila Methodist Community College in Utila. The 25-year-old Fenwick woman moved to the Caribbean Sea island in August, but has spent the past 12 years travelling back-and-forth with her parents. In March she will … Read More
American Heiress Nedenia Post Dye Slain at her Luxury Honduras Spa
Great-granddaughter of General Foods heiress found stabbed to death. Nedenia Post Dye, great granddaughter of Majorie Merriweather Post, was found in her room on Dec. 22nd at her luxury spa resort on the Caribbean island of Roatan, Honduras. A local musician, whom Nedenia Dye was helping quit drugs, was arrested. … Read More
Infinity Bay Roatan Honduras – New Years 2014 Party
Infinity Bay Spa and Resort, Roatan 1-800-230-4134 West Bay Beach, Roatan, Honduras Ring in the NEW YEAR with friends and family at Infinity Bay! Enjoy an Asian inspried all-you-can-eat buffet dinner in our International Buffet Restaurant including a wide assortment of SUSHI, LIVE PAD THAI and CARVING STATION, FRESH SALAD … Read More
Day of the “Inocent”
In Honduras, December 28 is a day for pranks, equivalent to April Fool’s Day in many countries. Pranks (bromas) are also known as inocentadas and their victims are called inocentes, or alternatively, the pranksters are the “inocentes” and the victims should not be angry at them, since they could not … Read More
Día de los Inocentes
Discover Honduras – “Greatest Places on Earth” TV Series
Enjoy this 45 minute video of Honduras by the “Greatest Places on Earth” TV Series channel (Steve and Roseanna Odell). Experience first hand some of the “Best of Honduras” Activities, Lodging, Dining, Tourism, Hotels and Restaurants etc. it is all in this video. Sit back and Discover Honduras Ver este … Read More