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Airport Departure Tax Will Be Eliminated

Due to the complaints of the Honduran people, and pressure from the media, the additional 23 dollar fee to exit the country will be lifted in 15 days. President Porfirio Lobo Sosa announced yesterday that the government will discontinue the increase in cost beginning in January. The measure had been adopted by Congress at midnight […]

Fire Safety Training Provided for Children in Honduras

Fire Safety Training Provided for Children in Honduras

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Firefighters from the 612th Air Base Squadron provided fire safety training to more than 95 local kindergarten children. The activities, as part fire prevention week, included crawling through a simulator containing dry ice smoke, participating in a smoke detector class, touring the fire station and watching a water truck […]

Honduras Will Fly Unmanned Aircraft

Honduras Will Fly Unmanned Aircraft

Honduras’ Soto Cano Air Base [also known as Palmerola Air Base], which is located five miles south of Comayagua, has been chosen as the location for the Honduran Air Force to begin flying unmanned aircraft operations for anti-drug and natural disaster operations. Honduras’s Air Force will fly drones (remotely piloted aircraft) fitted with cameras and […]