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"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

The drama that takes place on Roatan each day deserves a movie of its own. Every day there are road and boating accidents, landslides, and fishing drama. If not that, the island could certainly serve as a backdrop for well known and beloved Hollywood classics.

New generations of Roatanians are often not aware of the people that were here before them. They are sometimes confused why and how their own ancestors chose Roatan. The island has been accommodating Homo sapiens for about 1,500 years or so.

A part from a few pottery shards and bone fish hooks, there is not much evidence left that Paya Indians lived on Roatan and the other Bay Islands. Yet they lived and flourished here and on the eastern mainland of Honduras for over 3,000 years