Mr. Samuel Eliza Barnett Laurence was born in his grandmother house in Diamond Rock on October 7, 1932. His parents were Petrona Solarzano Laurence, a housekeeper, and Robert Barnett. “He used to blow the clarinet,” remembers his father Mr. Samuel.
With its bow almost touching Roatan’s shore in Dixon Cove, M Alexand, has a story that begins in newly formed Israel and involves an assassination attempt at president of Honduras in 1980s. With a capacity of 4,064 tons M Alexand is the largest shipwreck
Roatan needs books written about it as any culture needs artists, writers, musicians, sculptors and poets. A culture that wants to survive and thrive also need chroniclers that document its past and its present.
Water brings life and water brings beauty into our life. On an island surrounded by coral reefs, fresh water is an underappreciated common resource. It is a resource that belongs to all islanders, but it is often perceived as it belongs to no one.
As many countries around the world succumb deeper and deeper into totalitarianism and apartheid of the un-jabbed the question is to what degree Honduras and Roatan will follow suit.
On November 27, 2021 Honduras broke a few records. There was an all-time-high, massive voting turnout in the general elections for presidential candidates, congressmen and mayoral candidates. Around 68.9% of the nine million Hondurans cast their vote.
Honduras provided vital fruit produce to US markets that became a target of German submarines. In the early months of World War II, Germany set about attacking allied merchant shipping in the Caribbean.