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Off Island Perspective Spring 2026

Iranians have been burring not only Israeli and American flags, but statues of Baal, the Satanic demon appeased by child sacrifice, usually by burning. On February 11, on the 47th anniversary of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Iranians burned Baal effigies across several cities.

April 20, 2026

Off Island News, Wanderings

Mr. Allan the Colonel

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

April 16, 2025

A Light House in Sandy Bay

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.

April 15, 2025

Island Life of Quality

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.

April 14, 2025

How Honduras offers More Freedom than the US

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.

May 29, 2023

Honduras In World War I

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.

February 17, 2020

Off Island Perspective – February & March 2019

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

February 22, 2019

Roatan’s Beauty, Truth & Wisdom

Off Island Perspective Spring 2026

Mr. Allan the Colonel

A Light House in Sandy Bay

Island Life of Quality

How Honduras offers More Freedom than the US

Honduras In World War I

Off Island Perspective – February & March 2019

Off Island Perspective – December & January

Off Island Perspective – October & November

Off Island Perspective – August & September

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