Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The Honduran government requested the US Tuesday to allow a new extension of the Temporary Protection Status to guarantee the continuance of more than 76,000 Honduran citizens who are living in the US illegally, said the Honduran Foreign Ministry.

The request of increasing the time limit in favor of Honduran illegal residents in the US in 18 months is the eighth since 1998.

Honduran newspaper Tiempo Digital remembered that TPS expires on January 5, 2009, and if the widening request is not definitely accepted and approved, more than 76,000 Hondurans would be exposed to deportation.

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The civil aviation director in Honduras has disappeared after authorities accused him of issuing pilot licences without those involved being tested.

Guillermo Seamann allegedly issued a total of 39 certificates to pilots and mechanics from Venezuela and Peru.

Authorities said the applicants never came to Honduras but used local lawyers to obtain the licences.

An arrest warrant was issued for Mr Seamann after he failed to show up at his office on Tuesday.

A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, Melvin Duarte, said Mr Seamann had been under investigation for a month.

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Digicel, the fastest-growing telecommunications operator in the Caribbean and new entrant to the Central American market, today announced a major sponsorship deal with the Football Federation for Honduras, FENAFUTH.

Digicel, the main title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel, has further established its ties in CONCACAF football by signing a three year partnership with the aspiring Honduras senior National Men’s football team taking them up until 2011. Digicel also has the first option to extend its agreement.

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