For 19 years the Roatan fishing tournament has been a great attraction for Honduran anglers and a boon for West End businesses, but in recent years it has also become an increasingly prestigious event on a regional scale.
The Roatan 911 WhatsApp group started in French Cay as a response to a family emergency. Steve Garcia Arch remembers the exact date: “It was September 16, 2014.
The image of municipal trucks burning just a couple of miles from the cruise ship terminal at Town Center in Coxen Hole was straight out of a movie scene as part of Gravels Bay was taken over by an angry mob and civil unrest.
For over half a century Honduras was the biggest exporter of bananas to the United States, shipping over 12 million stems per year. The peak production decades for Roatan and The Bay Islands were the 1920s and 1930s, but it all started in 1876.
After 45 years of waiting, the capital of Santos Guardiola is now accessible via a paved road connecting it with the rest of the island. This almost historic enterprise was well worth the wait to many residents.
It was the night of August 18, 1899 and a northwestern wind had been blowing on Roatan for over three days. On the north shore of Roatan a 100 foot metal boat Snyg battled the seas seeking shelter from her journey from Florida to La
Miss Vornie Pandy Bennett, known to the locals as Nannie, gets up before dawn. She drinks a cup of tea or coffee and reads her Bible. This has been her morning ritual for a very long time. On Sundays, Miss Vornie walks to the Pandy
Drenched in sweat, one male runner stood out from the pack. Fifty-one year old Emiliano Lemus, clad in red running sorts, made it to the 10km race finish line before anyone else in just 49 minutes and seconds. “The champion is not the winner, but
It’s a shame that on an island full of fruit trees getting fruits has to be such a struggle. Other than bananas, Florida oranges, old Belize papayas and tasteless Chilean grapes picked a month before, local supermarkets don’t even come close to showing off the
The waters of Roatan are being invaded and a silent battle is being waged across the coral reef. Every single night indigenous marine life struggles to survive against a never-ending onslaught from foreign invaders.
