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 […]
President Juan Orlando Hernández may have been wanting a baleada today, but instead enjoyed a hamburger with the US Ambassador to Honduras, James Nealon. The president was fulfilling his promise to treat the ambassador to a hamburger if Honduras lost to the United States in the 2015 Gold Cup Soccer tournament. The United States won […]
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 […]
Agents of the Honduras Border Police on Thursday detained 39 citizens of Cuban origin in the Agua Caliente border point in Ocotepeque, western Honduras. The Cubans had been transported by bus from the intercity route from Tegucigalpa, and were heading towards the neighboring country of Guatemala, following a route to the United States. All persons were sent to the […]