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
It is a little known fact in these parts that the illustrious naval career of the hero of Albion, First Viscount Admiral Horatio Nelson, whose statue sits above a 170ft high column in central London is inextricably linked to the Bay of Honduras that includes
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.
Roatan and the other four Bay Islands enjoyed the status of being a full-fledged British Conoly from 1852 until 1859.
While US unemployment rate fell to 4.1% the country’s labor participation rate is at 62.7% and matching that of 1978. 95.4 Million Americans are no longer in labor force and living from savings, family aid, receiving government benefits or doing ad jobs.
You could say the first official tourist in Honduras was Christopher Columbus who arrived here in 1502 on his fourth voyage to the Americas. Columbus was more of a business tourist: his visit didn’t last long and he visited only Guanaja and Punta Castilla.