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.
When the ZOLITUR [Bay Islands Tourist Freezone] law was signed on Roatan by president Zelaya on December 13, 2007, the president of Congress and soon-to-be de-facto president, Roberto Micheletti said "I've never heard Roatanians sing the anthem so enthusiastically.”
While many people look to the Honduran central government or some international aid organizations to solve Roatan’s problems it is Roatanians themselves and their local government that should be in charge of the islands destiny.
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.