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Legal reforms looking to strengthen the judicial branch

Anette Emanuelsson
Honduras This Week

The President of the Supreme Court Vilma Morales as she hands over the proposal for the Law of the Judiciary Council and the Judicial Carrier to Roberto Micheletti, the President of Congress.

Seven legal reforms. That is what the President of the Honduran Supreme Court Vilma Morales hopes to achieve during the coming years. One law, the new civil code, was already passed by Congress last year. Still missing is, for example, a new criminal code, a law for witness protection, new legislation regulating the prison system, and also the Law of the Judiciary Council and the Judicial Carrier. The later will create an independent body, a council, which will manage matters within the judicial branch that are administrative rather than judicial in their nature. It will also make sure that the judicial personnel in the Honduran courts are hired and evaluated on merit and not because of political recommendations. "This law will generate a system that is sustainable over time and that has nothing to do with politics. It will separate the judge entirely from that sort of activity, only obeying our laws," Morales said. However, Morales doesn't agree that the naming of judges is influenced by politics today. "The political hand doesn't intervene, only merits are considered by the tribunals naming the candidates.". By Anette Emanuelsson

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Fuel agreement could be signed in coming weeks

Álvaro Morales Molina
Honduras This Week

Courtesy of the Presidential Palace
Andrew Shasha, the representative of Conoco Phillips in Latin America, announcing the company's willingness to use DIPPSA's terminals.

The Minister in charge of the fuel auction process, Enrique Flores Lanza, assured, on Thursday, that the agreement with the North American oil company, Conoco Philips, is definitely on the right way, after the government obtained a judicial order from the Procuraduria General del Estado (the legal representative of the government) to take over and manage Dippsa's fuel terminals.
Conoco Philips won a recent public auction for being the sole provider of fuel to Honduras, but doesn't have its own terminals in the country. By Álvaro Morales Molina

National Health Plan 2021: Enough to change Honduran health?

Sasha Arms
Honduras This Week

Archive/Honduras This Week
Hospital Escuela, the largest hospital in Honduras.

The health system in Honduras in disarray. Since Orison Velasquez resigned as Minister of Health in July last year, there have been a number of replacement Ministers come and go. Jenny Mesa is the current Minister, although there are rumours that she will not be a permanent fixture either. Hospitals are crying out for help because there aren't enough medical supplies to treat patients. The government makes sufficient pharmaceutical orders, but the medicines are not reaching the hospitals and medical centres. The Ministry of Health is nervous to comment on the state of health in the country at the moment, but nevertheless they do have a plan - the 'National Health Plan 2021'. By Sasha Arms

Honduras celebrating patron saint Suyapa

Alex Jones
Honduras This Week

Alex Jones/ Honduras This Week
La Hermita was built by Jose Midence after he was miraculously cured of his kidney stones

On a cool Saturday evening of January 1747, Alejandro Colindres and Lorenzo Martínez, two young and humble peasant boys, were returning to their home in the village of Suyapa. They had been gathering corn all day, and were tired from the heat and hard work. Then, as they crossed the Piligüin ravine, night began to fall. The two young boys decided that this would be a good place to sleep, and so laid down their things to rest. By Alex Jones

Honduras-Denmark tie in lackluster soccer match

Patrick Ahern
Honduras This Week

Patrick Ahern/Honduras This Week
Danish fans cheering for their team.

Saturday, January 27 was a perfect day to catch the late afternoon sun in the National Stadium to watch the National Team of Honduras play against the national team of Denmark. This was the first "friendly" or warm-up match in the long journey toward the World Cup in the Republic of South Africa in 20010. By Patrick Ahern

Suazo awarded Italian Oscar

Álvaro Morales Molina
Honduras This Week

Honduran footballer Oscar David Suazo, captain and leading scorer of Italian team Cagliari in the world's most competitive league, was elected the most valuable foreign player of the 2006 season on Monday night, an honor that he shared with Brazilian player Kaka from Milan. By Álvaro Morales Molina

week review

Watermelon plague hits Honduran crops
Transparency law in action
Life sentence in deaths of 19 immigrants

EDITORIAL

Government intervention legal

The process of intervention on the part of the Government is completely protected by the legal framework of our country.

The current position concerning the storage of fuels in the country has been totally imposed by the Government. Apparently negotiations between DIPPSA and the Government have not resulted in any prosperous solution. Since the public auction, DIPPSA are demanding that the Government pay 6 cents to store each gallon of fuel, whereas the Government want to pay 1 cent per gallon. Full Editorial

BUSINESS WEEK IN REVIEW

Up to $400 million foreign investment expected
Kuwait to reduce debt by $45million
Construction of hydroelectric power station in Taulabé
Hopes for third cell phone operator

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Interviews

Maracopa Arizona Sheriff's Office becomes sister police agency

Bruce Starr
Chief Dave Hendershott, Julio Benitez, Roger Marshall and Jim Miller.

I was honored to have the new National Police Commissario Julio Benitez, Chief Deputy David Hendershott and Captain Jim Miller of The Maracopa County Sheriff's Office of the Phoenix Arizona area in the studio. By Bruce Starr

GLORIUS FOOD REVIEWS

HTW had the monumental task of reviewing four new eateries around the island and following our rule, "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything," we bring you one wonderful restaurant. Not to say the other three were horrible, but just not quite three "starfish" or better. By Don Pearly

Copan Update

This is the last (hopefully) in a series of articles I have written over the past few weeks regarding the new airport Project for Copan Ruinas. As mentioned in last week's piece, the site that has been settled on is called Concepcion which is approximately half way between Santa Rosa de Copan and La Entrada..Full Article

Leeward

RN SUNDAY EVENING TOAST:
Here's to absent friends and those at sea.

The origins of the words starboard and port are at best elusive-- and perhaps to some even trivial. I am trying to be unassuming. This type of introduction offers other unassuming folks the opportunity to move on to the real estate section with the haste of a personal watercraft owner-not that PWC owners don't use the words; they often do, in an aberrant effort at kinship. Full Article

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