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Weather and Disease Still Hampering Shrimp Production in Honduras

Weather and Disease Still Hampering Shrimp Production in Honduras

Honduras will not be sending much shrimp to the US in 2016. According to importers from the region, the country is still suffering from the losses caused by disease and poor weather, and the prognosis for 2016 is flat. Most production in Central America is centered around the Gulf of Fonseca the Pacific Ocean inlet […]

Honduras Banana Exports Increase by 11.5%

Honduras Banana Exports Increase by 11.5%

The Central Bank of Honduras stated that the country’s banana exports between January and November 2015 increased by 11.5% in value and 7.3% in volume when compared to the same period of 2014. During the reference period, banana sales amounted to $442.7 million dollars, i.e. 11.5% more than the $397.2 million dollars achieved in the […]

Global Guardian Prepares to Expand into Honduras

Global Guardian Prepares to Expand into Honduras

Global Guardian is a firm that specializes in various operations related to security. It recently announced that it is adding Honduras to the multiple countries where it provides security, including services related to medical support, evacuations, emergency responses and more. It plans on working within Honduras’s most crucial cities and areas, including Tegucigalpa, Roatan, San […]

Job Fair Friday the 20th of November

Job Fair Friday the 20th of November

San Pedro Sula: The Technology University of Honduras is busy preparing for its annual set of job-fairs. Seniors throughout the university’s multiple campuses are preparing themselves to graduate, but as they prepare to enter the work force they are being granted a slight chance to find jobs and are being given a tiny break wherein […]

Honduras: Conflict in Aguan Valley Drives Palm Oil Giant to Launch Grievance Mechanism

Honduras: Conflict in Aguan Valley Drives Palm Oil Giant to Launch Grievance Mechanism

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 […]