By Admin Friday, September 3, 2010
Honduras will produce 6.4 percent more coffee in the upcoming 2010/11 season as farmers, spurred on by high prices, buy more fertilizers and expand their coffee growing land, the head of the national coffee association said.
According to Marcial Flores, Honduras sees production for the 2010/11 season at 3.83 million 60-bags of coffee compared with the 3.6 million bags produced in the 2009/10 season.
Honduras Infastructure Badly DamagedBy Admin Thursday, September 2, 2010
The already deteriorated road network in Honduras has been further affected after the constant rains that hit the country. There are many areas that have been cut off by landslides and floods, due to the accumulation of water in the soil.
Miguel Pastor, head of the Department of Public Works, Transportation and Housing (Soptravi) said this morning that at least 80% of the road network in Honduras is damaged; and a heavy investment will be required for its rehabilitation.
By Admin Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Migrant agricultural workers from Honduras began toiling in Quebec fields this week, after a Quebec farm lobby group and Honduran officials cut a deal to bring the workers to Canada under the federal government’s controversial Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program. The TFW program provides no oversight to prevent the abuse of foreign workers contracted to Canadian employers, yet it is a program the federal government has aggressively been expanding by the tens of thousands of workers.
By Admin Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Thousands of Honduras students are still without classes due to the strike by teachers demanding the government clear arrears to their pension and benefits fund.
The protest of hundreds of teachers that began last week was extended “nationwide” and continues today according to the president of the Coprumh union, Eduardo Casaña.
By Admin Thursday, August 5, 2010
The Permanent Contingency Commission (COPECO) has issued a yellow alert for nine communities in the Sula Valley and the Atlantic coast in Northern Honduras.
Commissioner Lisandro Rosales stated that due to the rains of the past 48 hours, there is a large amount of rain accumulation through these area of Honduras. Therefore, they have issued a yellow alert for the communities of San Manuel, Potrerillos, Pimienta, Villa Nueva, San Pedro Sula, and Choloma; as well as the Department of Cortez; also for El Progreso and the lowlands of El Negrito in the Department of Yoro.
Central American leaders ready to reintegrate HondurasBy Admin Wednesday, July 21, 2010
San Salvador, El Salvador - Central America’s leaders said Tuesday they were ready to reintegrate Honduras, which had been sidelined followed a coup last year.
At an extradordinary meeting of the Central American Integration System (SICA) the region’s presidents approved of recognizing Honduras’ new president, Porfirio Lobo, and let the country back into the Organization of American States (OAS).
One year on, Honduras rift persistsBy Admin Thursday, July 1, 2010
At dawn, on 28 June 2009, soldiers invaded the home of the Honduran president, Mel Zelaya, and flew him to Costa Rica. It was a frightening throwback to the days when military men, backed by a local oligarchy and often the United States, could overturn the results of democratic elections.
It would also turn out to be a pivotal moment for relations between the United States and Latin America – especially South America, where a new generation of left-of-centre governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela were all hoping for a new relationship with Washington following Barack Obama’s election.
Honduran gov’t declares emergency for dengueBy Admin Wednesday, June 23, 2010
TEGUCIGALPA, June 22 (Xinhua) -– The Honduran government declared on Tuesday an emergency state due to the increase of dengue cases, a disease which has killed nine people this year in the country.
Acting President Victor Hugo Barnica, after a ministers council meeting, announced that an Inter-institutional Commission of the Emergency for the Dengue Prevention and Control was established to deal with the situation.
D.C. United’s Andy Najar may also be the future of soccer in his native HondurasBy Admin Monday, June 21, 2010
When Honduras takes the field Monday against heavy favorite Spain in a World Cup match, thousands of Hondurans in the D.C. metropolitan area are likely to be watching.
But unlike his countrymen, Andy Najar may do more than just watch in the very near future. The 17-year-old, who some believe represents the future of Honduran soccer, may find himself in a national team uniform as quickly as he donned a D.C. United one.
Deck Is Stacked Against HondurasBy Admin Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Honduras!
We’ve seen that movie before. Tiny country from Central America or the Caribbean surprisingly qualifies for the World Cup. There’s dancing in the streets.
Then the fun ends.
Few teams fare worse at the World Cup than representatives from Concacaf, the mouthful of a name that refers to the governing body for North, Central American and Caribbean soccer. (Mexico, and to a lesser extent the U.S., are the exceptions.) Like No. 16 seeds in the NCAA basketball tournament, teams from Trinidad and Tobago and the like go home early, usually humbled.
