“Trujillo has a great future, and it always will.” The town has always been, on paper at least, a very attractive, well-situated and strategic place. It sits in a large, deep bay; it has access to the fertile Aguán Valley and is a launching point
Honduras has now two more discount airlines flying from abroad. In June 2025 JetBlue launched a connection between San Pedro Sula with New York for as little as $80 a seat. In December 2025 Frontier plans to connect SPS with Atlanta for as little as
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.
Hurricane Eta battered Bay Islands with heavy winds and rain causing island wide loss of electricity, localized landslides and internet and cell phone outages on November 3 and 4.
No one could confront the 30-or-so party goers that listened to music, drank alcohol and played with their families and girlfriends at an afternoon pool party at Parrot Tree on May 2.
Despite ongoing political intrigues, during the outbreak of World War 1, I saw Roatán and the rest of Honduras in a relatively peaceful state, untroubled by events on the other side of the Atlantic.
Is it even possible to see ugliness in Paradise? On Roatan, the answer seems to be a resounding yes.
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.