Monthly Archives: November 2008

Honduras is postponing its presidential primaries because of bad weather.

The country’s Congress says it will push back the elections by two weeks to November 30.

Intense rains and a cold front in recent weeks have hit 600,000 people and left 34 dead and 16 missing, officials say.

Flooding in all but one of Honduras’ 18 provinces has destroyed 80 percent of roads and nearly 8,500 homes. Authorities estimate total damages at $154 million.

More than 4.2 million Hondurans will decide the candidates for president, vice president, Congress and thousands of local races. The general elections will be held in November 2009.

President Manuel Zelaya’s four-year term ends in January 2010

At 4 PM EST…2100 UTC…the government of Honduras has issued a
tropical storm watch from the Nicaragua border to Limon.

At 4 PM EST…the government of Nicaragua has issued a tropical
storm watch from Puerto Cabezas northward to the Honduras border.
A tropical storm watch is now in effect from Puerto Cabezas
Nicaragua northward to Limon Honduras. A tropical storm watch
means that tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch
area…in this case within 24-36 hours.

An area of low pressure over the Caribbean southeast of Nicaragua and Honduras may become a tropical depression over the next two days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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The system is about 125 miles (201 kilometers) southeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the border of Nicaragua and Honduras, the Miami, Florida-based center said in an advisory. It will probably move to the north or north-northwest, the center said.