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April 2026

The beginning of the sacred season of Lent, which the Holy Church inaugurates with the austerity of her ceremonies and vestments on this Ash Wednesday, was in ancient times marked not only by the practice of fasting and penance for all the faithful, but also

On March 2, Fantasy Island, the storied hotel resort located on a key just east of French Harbour, suffered a major fire. Real-time video of the conflagration circulated on WhatsApp, reaching recipients and viewers near and far. I was on a WhatsApp feed that included

"Demography is destiny,” wrote August Comte, a French philosopher who believed that the size, structure, and composition of a society’s population will determine its future. Looking at demographic trends for the next quarter-century, Honduras, and in particular Roatan, have a bright future ahead. Birth rates

You can look at the Sargassum overabundance as a curse, and you can also look at it as a blessing. In February, when millions of cubic meters of Sargassum washed onto beaches and mangroves along the Roatan shoreline, many islanders took action. Others did nothing

Mr. Henry Hill Bush is the youngest of the 10. Ernest Simeon Hill and Hazel Eldene Bush children. His father was a coconut farmer and his mother was a housewife. Little Henry was born on April 6, 1935. He finished sixth grade in Utila’s Spanish

[vc_empty_space][vc_column_text][eltdf_dropcaps type="normal" color="" background_color=""]B[/eltdf_dropcaps]eginning in the 1990’s diving boats started using fiberglass dories which were lighter, more fuel efficient and easier to stack on the boats (taking up less space); prior to this all dories were wooden, solid carved out of a single tree trunk

On the evening of March 2, a fire broke out at Fantasy Island, one of Roatan’s largest resorts. The Roatan Fire Department was alerted around 7:20 p.m., but the fire spread quickly through many interconnected wooden parts of the resort. This was Roatan’s largest structure

Larry McLaughlin was born in Coxen Hole, Roatan, in 1943, exactly 100 years after his McLaughlin Scottish ancestors and the Wesley families first settled in the Bay Islands. That heritage made him a true island boy at heart. Affectionately known as “Ole Lar,” he was

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