All posts by Honduras Today
Castleton State College nursing students join NYVT Nurses Unite Medical Brigade – to teach those in need lessons to keep them healthy for life in Honduras
Castleton State nursing students trip to Honduras CASTLETON, Vt. -Some Castleton State College nursing students are heading overseas to use their skills to help those in need. Kylah Livingston says she dreamed of being a nurse since she was young, and her grandmother was sick. “I saw the nurses taking … Read More
Father’s Hope Volunteers at Oasis de Amor orphanage in Choluteca, Honduras
Father’s Hope, a Milton-based international orphan outreach project, has announced two separate initiatives designed to enhance its efforts to show love to orphans around the world. Father’s Hope founder Kevin Mertz, recently returned from a one-week trip to Choluteca, Honduras, in Central America. While in Honduras, he spent most … Read More
Tucson family helps give Honduran girl life-changing surgery
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
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