According to Ramon Espinoza, the head of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), poverty and unemployment will be Honduras’s greatest challenges for 2012. This past year, only 60,000 jobs were created in the private sector of the 200,000 needed to meet the growing demand of the population. Poverty grew five percent in urban areas as […]
Executive Director the Honduran Association of Banking Institutions (Ahiba), María Lidia Soriano, confirmed that on Saturday, December 31st, national banks will respond to the public needs by operating special windows at shopping mall branches and supermarkets. January 1st falls on a Sunday, therefore at the banks in Honduras, the doors will remain closed. On January […]
Statistics from the Honduran Public Health Ministry provided to the UN Population Fund show that 29,597 Hondurans developed full-blown AIDS this year. The United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) confirmed that 1,200-1,300 Hondurans are infected with the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) every year. UNPF Representative, Kenneth Rodriguez, said people have to be very careful, because […]
At the beverage exhibition in the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), for the first time in history, coffee beans native to Honduras have been packaged in Taiwanese promotional materials. A Central American coffee-themed booth at the Taipei Tea, Coffee, and Alcohol Exhibition this past week, boasted the five major Central American coffee producers of El […]
Aurelio Martinez, the singer, composer, and guitarist from Honduras will be playing Carnegie Hall this Saturday, October 15th, 2011. Mr. Martinez is one of the leading Garifuna musicians of his generation, known for both his preservation and modernization of this musical tradition. Following in the footsteps of the older legendary paranderos, he has become the […]