Allan Baxter Hyde was born on February 8, 1938, in French Harbour, Roatan, and grew up with his father and grandfather owning sailing schooners. Little Allan spent many hours playing on board these vessels. His Father built a boat in 1945 named the MA
After decades of service, Majken Broby Children’s Home in Gravel’s Bay closed its doors in 2023. Bay Islands now has only one children’s home – Greenfields Children’s Home in Sandy Bay, and it’s easy to miss.
Life on Roatan has always had a good quality to it. While things have sometimes been scarce, there has always been a plentitude of simple things that make up for it; plenty of sunshine, abundance, clean water, and helpful, hard working people all around.
The accepted mantra is that the US has a vastly superior justice system, a superior justice system, and a better democracy than Honduran. I disagree. The reality is much more nuanced and much more complicated.
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.
With the advent of 3D printing, getting a house built quickly and on the cheap is increasingly possible. ICON, a 3D printer manufacturer, built a 350-square-foot home in 48 hours at a cost of $10,000 with a printer running at only quarter speed. Once the
The 1991 Gulf War has been the most chemical war in history. Approximately 250,000 US veterans suffer from the multiple debilitating symptoms, from chronic fatigue to terminal tumors.
America’s baby boomers are filing for bankruptcy at alarmingly increasing rates. Three times more people over 65 were forced into bankruptcy in 2016 than in 1991. In 2016 3.6 people per 1,000 filed for bankruptcy in the 65 to 74 age bracket.
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.