Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

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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La Ceiba’s municipal authorities declared red alert due to the heavy rains that have been affecting the sector since early Thursday.

Mayor Milton Gonzales and the municipal made the decision in the absence of the COPECO authorities, since the representatives from this entity where supervising the Perla River that overflowed earlier.

La Ceiba presented floods in several sectors such as, Colonia Bantral, Colonia Suyapa, Colonia Sitramacsa, Barrio Buenos Aires, Colonia Pizzati, Colonia San Isidro and other areas.

There are over 15 evacuated families at the local shelter Gimnasio Simon Azcona, the local authorities are preparing to assist these victims.

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Just under 33% of the Central American and Dominican populations are smokers and only 20% believe that the cigarette is a drug, a survey presented here Friday by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer reported.

The poll was taken in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic in the second quarter of 2008 with a sample of 2,406 people.

The regional “tobaccometer” survey says that 30 percent consider that giving up smoking is a “difficult” challenge due to nicotine addiction, Pfizer’s Monica Gonzalez said.

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