Yesterday the Supreme Court trial began for the former financial manager of the Honduran Institute of Social Security (Instituto Hondureño de Seguridad Social – IHSS), Ramon Bertetti. The charges are for bribery, negotiations incompatible with the exercise of public office, fraud and misappropriation of public funds to the detriment of the administration of the Honduran […]
Santos Fito Burgos Amador, at 60 years old, was forced to undergo the humiliation of being seen rolled along the public streets of La Ceiba, half clothed, in order to receive a chest x-ray. Sunday, Mr. Burgos Amador of El Porvenir in Atlántida, fell from a bridge while fishing for food for his family. He […]
According to GermanWatch’s Global Climate Risk Index Report for 2015, Honduras has been one of the hardest hit. The Global Climate Risk Index 2015 analyzes to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves, etc.). The most recent data available – from 2013 and 1994–2013 – […]
President Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Taiwan at the end of next week to meet with President Ma Ying-jeou. He last visited Taiwan in 2010, as the speaker of the Honduran congress. This is his first visit to the Asian country since being elected President of Honduras. The president is expected to hold a […]
Embattled by Conflict in the Bajo Aguan Region of Honduras, Corporacion Dinant has recruited a professional social worker to be based within the local communities of the Aguan near the company’s African Palm plantations and extraction mill. The appointment is part of Dinant’s program of regional Community Grievance Mechanisms, designed in collaboration with local people to […]