By Catracha Hondurena on April 20, 2009
drug, honduras, trade
General Honduras News
Drug enforcement agents seized 3 million pseudoephedrine tablets that had been imported into Honduras from Bangladesh, a police spokesman said. The seizure was made on Friday night at a house in a neighborhood in south Tegucigalpa that had been rented by a man named Manuel Valerio, the police spokesman said. The shipment was headed to […]
By Catracha Hondurena on April 15, 2009
cafe, coffee, honduras
Business - Economics
Honduras’s coffee industry has logged in contracts for 2,277,210 60-kilogram bags of coffee from the current 2008-09 crop in sales through April 14, the official Honduran Coffee Institute, or Ihcafe, said Tuesday. This is 19% lower than sales through the same date the year before, when 2,797,378 bags of the 2007-08 Honduran crop had been […]
By Catracha Hondurena on April 14, 2009
honduras, iphone, telecommunication, tigo
Business - Economics
In the Central American country of Honduras, 3G subscription will make up 30 percent of the telecommunication market by the end of 2014, says Pyramid Research, a market research arm of Light Reading Communications Network. Today, however, 3G accounts for just two percent of the wireless telecom market in Honduras, which has a population of […]
By gringa on April 14, 2009
delta, honduras, travel
Honduras Travel & Tourism, Human Interest
Delta Air Lines passenger Joao Correa spent two nights in jail and faces federal charges because he had a bathroom emergency onboard a Delta flight from Honduras to Atlanta. As you may have heard, Correa, a passenger in economy class, had an arm-twisting altercation recently with a flight attendant when she wouldn’t let him use […]
By Catracha Hondurena on March 26, 2009
attorney general, constitution, honduran, honduras, Politics in Honduras, zelaya
Politics in Honduras
The Honduran attorney general’s office said Wednesday the president has no authority to call for forming a new constitution. President Manuel Zelaya announced late Monday that his government will hold a nationwide poll on the issue June 24. That poll would determine whether Honduras will hold a binding vote in November on drafting a new […]