One positive thing about living on Roatan is that the island community solves its own problems. Community members identify the problems, find a strategy to handle them and locate resources to fund them.
After suffering through another tax season and rushing to pay our income taxes before the April 30 deadline, I thought I would take a look at the “return” on our taxes.
On May 26, PIER board members met to look at the non-profits long term goals and golf tournament funding results. After the Lawson Rock meeting: Front row: Bill Figgess, Trish Nixon, Milesse Kennedy. Back row: Ted O'Brien, Vivian Figgess, Yvonne Heilijgers, Patrick Connell, BoudHeilijgers, Luis
By the 1680s the tiny island of Saint.Vincent, located1800 miles from Honduras had become a sanctuary for maroons. These escaped slaves were accepted by the island’s Carib Indians who mixed and intermarried with them.
Clint Matute exudes an air of confidence with a hint of arrogance and with good reason. He is considered by his peers and his fans to be the greatest guitar player on the island of Roatan.
She has a calm, composed look in her eyes. She has seen a lot. She has suffered and she has been through things that most of us only read about in books. Lucia Avila-Garcia was born in Rio Esteban in 1936.
It all started as a 2003 pipe dream. IriMaska, a Czech artist-cum-brewer-cum-businessman had a vision: bringing Czech people to Roatan… in droves. Back then Roatan was a complete unknown in the Czech republic.
It’s not often that a country’s president visits a small village, but in October 2017 President Juan Orland Hernandez drove up and down the four kilometer dirt track crossing Roatan from south to north to one of the most overlooked communities on the island –
Living in partnership with nature means knowing your plants, understanding their properties, and respecting their place around us. While common knowledge of plant healing properties has disappeared, a few older islanders and a couple young ones continue the tradition of scholarship and healing with island
You could say the first official tourist in Honduras was Christopher Columbus who arrived here in 1502 on his fourth voyage to the Americas. Columbus was more of a business tourist: his visit didn’t last long and he visited only Guanaja and Punta Castilla.
