Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA — The Honduran Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, received two jade- and iron pyrite-coated jaw bones of two members of the Maya elite that had been sent anonymously to the Honduran Embassy in the Netherlands.

The pieces were delivered Tuesday to IHAH manager Dario Euraque by Honduras’ deputy foreign relations secretary Eduardo Rosales.

Euraque told Efe in Tegucigalpa that the jaws were those of two different Mayan individuals who lived centuries ago in the Copan sector of western Honduras, according to studies by Dr. Raphael Panhuysen, an archaeology professor at the Netherlands’ Leiden University.

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Representatives from Atlantic Airlines received a notification from the Main Directory of Civil Aeronautics, (DGAC), which authorizes Atlantic Airlines to restart operations immediately.

The notification was given thru an official notice in which it was informed that the company has fulfilled most of the DGAC’s requirements.

The points mentioned for the permit approval, where in the since that the technical and operation discrepancies have been corrected, also, that the company is within the parameters of operational security, and for this reason their operation permit has been reactivated.

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Threatened by the collapse of U.S. financial markets, the countries of Central America are reinventing globalism as a necessary survival tactic for the economic hard times to come.

For the past decade, the globalism of Central American economies has mostly meant strengthening ties with the United States. But today, with the region’s main trade partner in recession, the vulnerable economies of Central America are looking over the fence of ”America’s backyard” to neighbors farther afield in South America, Europe and Asia.

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More than 200 Caymanian and Honduran passengers have been stranded for nearly three weeks after Atlantic Airways failed to operate its scheduled flights.

Honduran airline passengers stranded for weeks descended on the Legislative Assembly on Friday morning to demand help to return home.

Despite assurances from Minister Charles Clifford that a contract could be signed that would enable them to fly out on Rollins Air, using Cayman Airways staff to check in the passengers, none of them flew out as they had hoped on Friday night.

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