The Calle El Centro Festival Gastronomico will be presented in Copan Ruinas on Friday, December 7. This food festival will be open from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m., hosted by five different restaurants located on the block, it will feature a house specialty from each restaurant as well as typical Honduran Christmas Foods. Specially decorated and designated tables will be set up in front of the restaurant locations along the street. Full update in Travel & Tourism

Run, run, we're leaving, we're leaving Donita, have your fare ready!

These are the words continuously yelled by the bus and taxi drivers and their assistants in Honduras. It is a social penalty. Directing transportation in Honduras has been the task of individuals who do not use these means of locomotion. Contributing their educational impoverishment, the willful people who earn their living by providing transport have given their profession a disagreeable image.  Full editorial

Garifuna projects based on mutual cooperation

Participants in the Comite's project in Barranco Blanco water coconut seeds, which will replace those lost to the Lethal Yellowing Disease.

Special to HTW(Last of two parts) TRUJILLO - The approach of the Comite de Emergencia Garifuna is not to simply donate: all the projects are designed so that the participants have to contribute back, and to foster cooperation, sustainable development and self-sufficiency. The people who lost houses, for instance, had to contribute an assistant and raw materials for the building of their house.  Full article by SUZANNE SHENDE

Intestinal parasite have natural cures 
After disasters like Hurricane Michelle, the first thing people ask for is medicine because of the effects of contaminated water. Medical brigades come to help usually, although since September there have been almost none due to the travel scare after the attack on the World Trade Center.  Second of four parts by WENDY GRIFFIN