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Island communities centered their lives around trees for generations. Sometimes villages bordered forests, built homes in the shade of mango trees and planted coconuts to stabilize soil and earn income. The islanders’ relationship with trees was complex and ever evolving. “A society grows great when

The scale and complexity of the Coxen Hole Po-35 road paving infrastructure project is the biggest infrastructure land project the island has ever seen. The retaining walls built on the side slopes were some of the most challenging and expensive of the project. The 320

Mr. Armstrong Samuel Grant Bodden came to life on February 23, 1933 in his grandfather’s home in Coxen Hole. His father was Dyke Eggerton Grant, a tailor. For most of his life – over 30 years – he worked on a Unite Fruit ship out

Mrs. Ivy was born on March 4, 1939 in a family home in West End where the Argentinean Grill is today. She is the eldest of six children of Esther Laverne Bodden Warren of West End and her dad, Henry Byron Warren from West End,

Mrs. Catherine caught her first fish in 1961 — a 12-pound Black Snapper she hooked in the Barabareta channel. Now, at 97 years old, she remains the oldest fisherman of the Bay Islands and continues to fish with her grandson, Aaron.

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.