La Ceiba City Mayor, Carlos Aguilar, sent Lucas Barrios to Kenner, New Orleans on Monday to meet with their Mayor, Mike Yenni. Mr. Barrios was sent as a follow up to Mayor Aguilar’s visit there last summer. The La Ceiba Mayor hopes to make use of a 10 year long Sister Cities agreement to boost […]
The Miskito Indians from Honduras’ La Moskitia region have little or no training and minimal equipment to help them pluck seafood from the ocean floor which will leave then alone to managing an injury in the workplace, and take responsibility for their safety. They lack depth and pressure gauges or timers, and have little access […]
Marcos Joel Álvarez Barahona, aka “the Unicorn” was arrested by National Police while trying to leave the country. Álvarez Barahona is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha, and believed to be one of those responsible for killing the Ceibeño journalist, David Meza Montecinos. The suspect was apprehended at the police post on the southern exit […]
Deputy Transportation Director, Rosel Quinonez, was killed Thursday night as he got out of his car in the northern city of La Ceiba. Authorities have no information on a possible motive. Quinonez, 46, was a longtime politician in President Lobo’s National Party. “We regret that these sort of actions are happening in Honduras,” Transportation Director […]
Marlon Pascua, Honduras’ Minister of Defense has announced that President Porfirio Lobo is deploying soldiers from the North Coast of La Ceiba to protect the Aguan River region. 2,000 soldiers and police officers will be assigned there to seize drugs and illegal weapons. The government says the Aguan River region is being targeted by drug […]