The fires that have been burning in the Roatan Municipal Garbage Dump could be getting closer to their end and not a minute too soon for residents and visitors.
Not many international airports get the goodwill of non-paid, self-motivated volunteers that put in thousands of hours a year to improve their travelling experience.
The waters of Roatan are being invaded and a silent battle is being waged across the coral reef. Every single night indigenous marine life struggles to survive against a never-ending onslaught from foreign invaders.
June was a windy month on Roatan and two unusual vessels chose Roatan as a port of call. On June 26, six Cuban refugees sailed onto the reef at Fantasy Island.
Immigrants have been front and center in the media in the last couple of months. With the recent crime wave on the island, the locals and some mainland transplants have been up in arms to stop the unchecked flow of immigrants to our islands.
After taking Roatan from the British in March 1781, General Matias de Galvez, commander of all Spanish forces in Central America, turned his attention to the last English outpost in Honduras.
The amount of road maintenance and new road construction taking place in the summer of 2018 is a game changer for Roatan. “You can hear the change of the atmosphere.
