News that Cases of lung cancer in Honduras doubled in recent years was revealed earlier this week by the Head of the Department of Pneumology at the Chest Suyapa Sosa Hospital. This fact even though Cigarette consumption in Honduras has experienced a 30% decline. The specialist stated that about 70 … Read More
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Glen Eagle Signs a Letter of Intent to Purchase a Gold Processing Plant in Honduras
Glen Eagle Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase from an arm’s length private party, Gestion Cobra Gold International Inc. 80% of all outstanding and issued shares of Cobra Oro de Honduras SA. The Transaction will entitle Glen Eagle to … Read More
IMF Grants Honduras $189 million dollar loan package
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday said it had offered Honduras roughly $189 million in loans that the poor Central American country could tap to help contain a ballooning government deficit. Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Americas and has the world’s highest murder rate, fuelling … Read More
Honduras, Guatemala To Jointly Fight Drug Cartels
Honduras and Guatemala will launch a joint military force along their common border to confront violent drug traffickers that are transporting illegal substances to the United States, announced the presidents of both countries Wednesday. Both Central American nations, hit by violence coming from local and Mexican drug cartels have deployed … Read More
Honduras coffee exports more than double in November 2014
Coffee exports from Honduras, Central America’s top producer, more than doubled in November from the same month last year, helped by a rise in coffee prices worldwide, industry officials said on Monday. Coffee exports in November, the second month of the 2014-15 harvesting season, totaled 104,611.50 60-kg bags, up 116.5 … Read More
The Official Draw for the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship 2015
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) confirmed today the programming for the official draw for the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship Honduras 2015. The draw will take place on Monday, December 8 at 10 AM local time (11 ET), and will be streamed live via CONCACAF.com. The … Read More
Honduras Childrens Alliance Seeking Annual Project Manager
Missing Honduras? What are you doing next year? HCA is seeking an annual project manager who will begin in May/June 2015. The project manager works as part of the management team to coordinate volunteers (orient, schedule, welcome, etc), supervise our El P programs and manage day to day operations. The … Read More
Arbol humano de Navidad en Tegucigalpa, Honduras más grande del mundo
Un representante de Guinness confirió este lunes a Honduras el récord de formar “el árbol de Navidad humano más grande del mundo“, durante una ceremonia efectuada en la ante la Casa Presidencial. “A nombre de Guinness for Records es para mí un gran placer anunciar que hoy 1 de diciembre … Read More
First Bitcoin Exchange in Honduras to be Launched by a Mercario – Mimetic Markets Partnership
Honduran Mercario partners up with American Mimetic Markets to launch the first Bitcoin exchange in Honduras. Hosted by Mimetic Markets, freshly announced trading platform Mercario will allow users to trade Honduran lempiras, Brazilian reals and bitcoins on a robust and scalable system. In a company’s announcement, Mimetic Markets CEO Sameer … Read More
Honduras Human Christmas Tree Breaks Guinness World Record
Thousands of Hondurans went down in history yesterday by setting a new Guinness world record for the largest human Christmas tree. “On behalf of the Guinness Book it is a great pleasure to announce that today … the people of Honduras in Tegucigalpa, with 2,945 people, have broken … Read More