Off Island Perspective – Spring 2023
On March 7, US city of Newark, New Jersey’s largest city signs a sister city relationship with United States of Kailasa.
On March 7, US city of Newark, New Jersey’s largest city signs a sister city relationship with United States of Kailasa.
In an interesting interview on Fox News titled The Church of Environmentalism, journalist Tucker Carlson has brought to light a contradiction that may have escaped the notice of many people but which I consider extremely revealing.
In March 2023, Roatan Bilingual School (ESBIR) the oldest private educational institution on Roatan, celebrated its four decades of educating the island’s children and youth. The school traces its roots to the early 1980s when the island had no options for quality child education.
Austin Lee Bodden Gabourel was born on January 17, 1933, in Utila. He was the fourth of eight children of Annie Elizabeth Bodden Gabourel from Belize and John Alonso Bodden from Cayman Islands.
An opening salvo of reforming the Honduran constitution and its tax law has been fired. The idea is to allow principal of progressivity in the tax system and eliminate the possibility of forgives of tax debt.
As Roatan grows in population, so does the number of people dying on the island each week. A few decades ago Roatan island funerals were a family affair where caskets were built at night during the wake and the dead were buried the following morning.
Bay Islanders have a deep respect for the sea. They are also aware and wary of sea’s potential dangers. This is so despite, or perhaps because, islanders collectively have spent so much time on the sea.
Elmer’s studio is the western edge of his concrete porch overlooking the busy street of the Colonia Policarpo Galindo. Elmer, his wife and three sons live in a handsome, blue concrete house on a steep road leading west into the hills of Sandy Bay.
Several times a day a concert of dolphin clicks, whistles, moans, trills and squeaks fill the air in sandy bay. Just south of Bailey’s Key there is a unique center for 17 Bottle nose dolphins in Central America.
The accepted mantra is that the US has a vastly superior justice system, a superior justice system, and a better democracy than Honduran. I disagree. The reality is much more nuanced and much more complicated.