The government COVID lockdown policies of 2020 ruined some people, made others more resilient, and even made some prosper. For Mitch Cummins, a long term American island resident, the lockdowns created a life changing business opportunity.
This year, 2024, marks 500 years of a permanent European presence in Honduras. The civilization brought here by Spanish conquistadors half a millennium ago set Honduras on a path to poses a common language, Christianity, an administrative system, schools, roads, and a legal system. All
Two hundred years ago, Roatan was a part of Mexico, and the island’s head of state was Augustin I. The several hundred Garifuna living on the east side of the island enjoyed the freedom to travel as far as California or Tejas if they wished.
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.
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.
The US has begun to implement a sort-off rent-a-passport system. “If you have seriously delinquent tax debt (…) The State Department generally will not issue a passport,” reads a statement on the IRS.gov website.