Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The Director of the National Health Service (SENASA), Heriberto Amador, said Honduras is again certified to export beef to the United States of America.

“We are happy because we have a new relationship with the Department of Agriculture of the United States and have access again to the beef market,” he said, “Exports of beef may bring in $20,000,000 and strengthen the economy of the country.”

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Migrant agricultural workers from Honduras began toiling in Quebec fields this week, after a Quebec farm lobby group and Honduran officials cut a deal to bring the workers to Canada under the federal government’s controversial Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program. The TFW program provides no oversight to prevent the abuse of foreign workers contracted to Canadian employers, yet it is a program the federal government has aggressively been expanding by the tens of thousands of workers.

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From: La Prensa, Honduras

Yesterday morning, strong currents brought down the Motagua River bridge, leaving Honduras and Guatemala totally cutoff from one another.

Omoa Mayor, Ricardo Alvarado, expressed concern about the large impact on trade, tourism and Honduras’ economy that the damaged bridge will have. This is the only point where vehicles are driven to complete trade between both countries. Mayor Alvarado said he has already communicated with Mayor David Pineda of Puerto Barrios, in Guatemala, who said that they are speaking with the country’s President, Álvaro Colom, to start work on a temporary bridge.

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