Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

Problems with the stadium light towers postponed the Hispano/Platense soccer game last night.

The teams were scheduled to play at the Carlos Miranda stadium in Comayagua, but heavy rains on Friday caused failures in the transformers, which could not be repaired in time for the match to proceed yesterday evening.

Officials of both clubs failed to agree on the time to play the rescheduled game (set for today), as the visitors sought to play at 11:00 am, while the locals insisted they play at 2:30 pm.

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NIKE, Inc. and the Central General de Trabajadores de Honduras (CGT), representing the former employees of the Nike contract supplier factories Hugger and Vision Tex, have reached an agreement to help improve the lives of workers affected by the Hugger and Vision Tex factory closures in Honduras.

Nike and CGT are concerned for the workers in Honduras and have agreed to take important steps to support former employees of Hugger and Vision Tex. Through this agreement, Nike will contribute to a workers relief fund of $1.5 million to be administered jointly by CGT, the Solidarity Center, the Worker Rights Consortium and supervised by professor Lance Compa of Cornell University.

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Geovanny Antonio Varela, who was out collecting metal for recycling, found two rocket-propelled grenades and put them in his bag. Unfortunately, one of the RPGs exploded when he arrived home and tossed the bag on the ground, killing his dog. The boy, his father, and two other relatives were wounded by the blast.

An armed forces spokesman told reporters he had no idea how the grenades could have ended up in an area in which the boy had access. The police bomb unit detonated the other RPG.

The four wounded civilians were taken to hospitals in Tegucigalpa and are out of danger.

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