A former north Alabama businessman was among 14 people killed in a plane crash in Honduras. Jim Howell owned Carpet Care in Fort Payne for about 30 years before selling it and moving to Honduras in 2003 to be a missionary. Read Article
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* Farmers spurred by prices expanding arabicas coffee land * Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru boost output as others decline * Global demand rising, not enough to meet the gap – Read Article
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A small Honduran commercial airliner crashed Monday near the capital, killing all 14 people aboard, including a high government official and a union leader, authorities said. The Central American Airlines plane was on a routinely scheduled daily flight, airline manager Felix Pacheco said. Read Article
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The tiny village of Las Marias lies on the banks of the Rio Platano, deep in the heart of Mosquitia, Honduras – the so-called “Little Amazon” of Central America, the largest area of tropical rainforest north of the Amazon Basin. In recent years, however, Mosquitia’s magnificent isolation has been shattered by intruders: drug smugglers and […]
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Honduran teachers announced that on Friday they will stage the first national strike of the current school year to demand their rights. The teachers decided to dedicate Fridays for strikes and meetings to claim for the payment of arrears, the defense of the teachers’ statute and the end of the privatization policies in the education […]
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Disease known as “tar spot” threatens maize in Honduras ——————————————————- The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock called for urgent cooperation in fighting a disease known as “tar spot” which is decimating white maize. The disease is attacking the fields of small farmers with more than 30 per cent of their crops affected. In Honduras this […]
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ambushed the director of the nation’s main prison and shot up the car he was driving, wounding the official in the head and also hitting a prison employee who was a passenger. Read Article
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According to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, the biosphere of Platano River, a World Heritage Site, is in danger due to drug trafficking in that area. UNESCO stated that despite the actions of the army there are landing fields for aircraft that carry drugs from South America. Read Article
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Doctors of the School Hospital in the capital of Honduras continue the work stoppage to demand wage increases and other socio-economic demands. The strikers call on health authorities to improve conditions in hospitals, to install new modules in the laboratories and to redistribute working sessions. Read Article
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The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) and Reporters Without Borders are waiting for the Honduran authorities to give a clear undertaking to provide physical and legal protection to the country’s minority news media and will hold them responsible for any act of censorship against Radio Faluma Bimetu. Read Article
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The Honduran government should ensure a prompt and thorough investigation of the recent murders of transgender women and bring those responsible to justice, Human Rights Watch and Red Lésbica Cattrachas, a Honduran lesbian rights organization, said today. Six transgender women have been murdered in Honduras since November 29, 2010, with the latest killing on January […]
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After 12-day strike by medical students in the rotating internship, have yet to return to the wards and do not receive appropriate sanctions.The demands on the Health Ministry and the academic authorities of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) state that recipients need rest areas, a place to shower after leaving their shift and […]
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ONE of the injured Honduran fishermen involved in a recent shooting incident with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard was yesterday remanded in custody when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court. Read Article
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A total of 100,000 illegal Honduran citizens are going through the Mexican national territory to the USA, according to the last data published by the National Forum for Migration (FONAMIH), a non-governmental organization. There is information on a little more than 1,000 and only 340 people are correctly documented, but there is not any information […]
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The Popular National Resistance Front (FNEP) in Honduras prepares protest demonstrations for this Thursday on the first anniversary of the government of Porfirio Lobo. Lobo took power on January 27 of 2010 after elections in November that were qualified as illegal by popular sectors because they were called under a coup government. Read Article
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Threats from local authorities and security forces, which tried to take over its management, forced a local radio station in Honduras temporarily to stop broadcasting on 14 January. The station, Radio Faluma Bimetu – Radio Coco Dulce in Spanish – belongs to the Honduran community of African origin (Garifuna) of Triunfo de la Cruz. A […]
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Honduras’ first wind park, the 102-MW Cerro de Hula facility, will begin producing electricity in the first quarter of 2012, just as other developers could be breaking ground on three other projects, Jose Moran, development manager of developer Energia Eolica de Honduras (EEH) has told REW. Read Article
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The National Popular Resistance Front denounced the kidnapping of a member of its executive committee, Juan Chinchilla, and called for a demonstration in the capital on Monday to demand his immediate release. Chinchilla was kidnapped this weekend on his way home near the rural settlement of La Concepción, in the municipality of Tocoa. Read Article
Gunmen killed four women and four children, including an 18-month boy, and wounded three others Thursday in an attack on a minibus in Honduras, officials said. The attack in the rural eastern province of Olancho appears to have been aimed at one of the passengers on the minibus, said Security Ministry spokesman Leonel Sauceda. Read […]
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by deputy security minister Armando Calidonio’s insistence during a TV appearance on 3 January that none of the ten murders of journalists in Honduras during 2010 was connected to the victim’s work. “None of these murders is linked to the practice of journalism,” he said. “It is highly improbable and […]
Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by a judge in the southern town of Amapala to try community radio reporters Elia Xiomara Hernández and Elba Yolibeth Rubio on charges of disobeying the authorities and “taking part in demonstrations that obstruct public services.” The trial is to take place on 11 January. Read Article