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Honduran Paintings

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Las Lavanderas (Red)
Benigno Gomez Lopez
Honduras 1988
Born January 17, 1934 in Naranjito, Honduras. Graduated Escuela Nacional Bellas Artes, Honduras 1959. Academia Bellas Artes, Italy 1960.

23 3/4 X 17 3/4 24 1/2 X 18 1/2

More paintings at www.honduraspaintings.com

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VILLAS DEL REAL

400 Unit American Style Residential Neighborhood and Future Multifamily Complex Development in Tegucigalpa

American Style homes located in the city's most developing residential area, with access from the Anillo Periferico Sur (City’s South Loop), next to Las Uvas Boulevard. Houses available from US$ 60 - 102K.

Information

Copans Best Accomodation Options

La Casa de Cafe B&B, Copan Ruinas

Copans first Bed & Breakfast Inn. Ten rooms, private hot water bath, full breakfasts included in rate. Excellent complimentary Copan mtn grown coffee served all day. Lovely garden with panoramic views of the Copan River Valley & distant mtns of Guatemala, hammocks. Colonial charm, excellent service, bilingual hosts. Four blocks to downtown, close to all restaurants, museums & shops. A charming and comfortable base from which to explore the Mayan ruins of Copan. Recommended by Lonely Planet Central America, Footprint Guide Central America & Mexico, Rough Guide Central America, Moon Handbook Honduras,Honduras Adventures In Nature, Open Road Honduras. Information:

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Copan Ruinas, Long & Short Term Vacation Rental,
La Casa de Don Santiago Town House Rental

Brand new, comfortable and stylish rental home with all amenities, 2 bdrms each with private balcony and valley views, 2 1/2 baths, sleeper couch, hot water, granite countertops throughout, color tv w/ cable, ceiling fans, custom furniture, extra large closets, fully equipped kitchen, purified water, all new appliances, living room, dining room, maid service included, garden w/ hammock, centrally located & close to all shopping, dining and cultural offerings. Avail by night, week, month. Copans best vacation rental.

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Copan Ruinas, Casa Jaguar Rental Home. Charming & comfortable village residence. Quiet street, 5 blks from Central Park, all shops, restaurants, cafes, museums. Newly remodeled, 2 bdrm w/ 1 dbl bed in each bdrm,1 bath w/ hot water, fully furnished, sleeper couch, full kitchen w/ all new appliances, all utensils, purified water, living room, dining room, maid service included, a/c, ceiling fans, color tv w/ cable, travel & Maya culture reference library, hammocks. Available for rental by the night, week, month.

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Fishing Boat Captain Needed!

I need a fishing boat captain, or an experienced fisherman who can handle the daily routine of a charter fishing boat operation in La Ceiba. Must have interenet and be dependable, reliable and honest! Please email me at sail_fever@yahoo.com or you may call me in Texas, USA +01 432 631-2193.

Honduran Beachfront lot. 3500 SqFt in Santa Fe (near Trujillo) ..
Road is in, Electric, Water and Telephone adjacent. Sat TV and Internet
available. $18,000 contact hondprop@mail.com

REAL ESTATE

Roatan Realty http://www.ROATANREALTY.com

For Sale- Roatan Island Real Estate
The global investment community is calling Roatan Island the hottest new investment destination in the Americas!
This spectacular beachfront home has marvelous sunset views which crystal clear turquoise waters of the Caribbean at your doorstep, this property is located in the sought after community of Lawson Rock.

The community has two pools, a restaurant and marina. With 102 feet of beachfront this 6/10 acre site has been lushly landscaped with almost every tropical flower in the Caribbean. Asking Price $US $1,449,000
Own a magnificent island estate with a natural deep water harbor, more than 310-ft. private beachfront, 4.8 acres on tropical paradise and a fully furnished luxury home. Located on Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras, Central America.

Asking Price- $2,250,000
Tel USA + 1 877 716 1388 – Tel Honduras + 504 455 6022- email: info@roatanrealty.com
Roatan Realty Office Park, Main Rd, Brick Bay, Roatan

Infinity Bay Spa & Beach Resort

An investment that is so good…..
You may never want to sell.
(Located at the famous “L dock”)

They are not making any more beachfront property like this.
Own a Villa on Roatan´s most beautiful beach for as little as $259,000.

Visit our website at: http://www.infinitybay.com
For more information call: (504) 403-8076/77 U.S. Phone 541-359-1229 or e-mail us at: info@infinitybay.com

Parrot Tree
Plantation
Century 21
J. Edwards Real Estate
Roatan’s Most prestigious Resort Community!

Starting from $259,900 & up.
1-4 bedroom Units
Beachfront Condos
Marina Villas
Retail Space
Home Sites
200 Acre Gated Community
5 Acre Private Lagoon
Full Service Marina
Day Spa & Retreat
Coffee Shop

JEdwards@Century21Roatan.com
Telephones: Hond: 504-3320-7177 / US: 713-491-4540
www.ParrotTreePlantation.com/
www.Century21Roatan.com
Parrot Tree Plantation and it’s offices are located mid-island on the south shore.

Rentals

For Rent

Main Street, Colonia Palmira, #2036
> ½ block from United Nations Building
> and La Salsa Restaurant
> •         Perfect for Office with
> more than 10 Units
•         Meeting/Board Room
•         Air Conditioning
•         Electric Generator
•         Available Computer Network
•         3 Phone Lines
•         Water Cistern
•         Lush Gardens
•         Social/Break room Areas
•         4 Car Garage
•         3 ½ Restrooms

  Information:
Tel. 232-6263,
Sr. Enrique Moncada

FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR
AUTHENTICITY

A COLONIAL TOUCH

8 « full extra » all equiped rooms
Refined colonial style
Intercontinental and french breakfast
Flowered patio
Spanish,English, French speaking

House for Rent, Sale or Exchange
Located in Comayaguelas´s best commercial area, ideal for business.
Location novena calle entre 3 y 4 ave.
Across from ¨Japon Internacional¨
(Mitch Proof Location).
Six rooms, plus a seventh room in
a mezzanine. 1 ½ bathrooms, warehouse,
water tank, steel entrance door, steel bar protected windows, e/w sound isolation(glass reduces external noise). Two telephone lines, roofed patio, safe ceiling bars, ceramic floors, and a 30 ft. tower for communication.
The house has the following measurements: 151.94 mts.2, 217.93 vrs2.
Sale Price:2 Million, (0r exchange for a house located in Col. Los Robles, Roble Alto,
Las Hadas etc.) Monthly rent: L.7,500.
If you are interested Call Phone:
(504) 234-5018, or e-mail: zzrpfm96@yahoo.com.

Copan Ruinas, Long & Short Term Vacation Rental, La Casa de Don Santiago ...
comfortable and stylish with all amenities, 2 bedrooms each with private balcony and valley views, 2 1/2 baths, hot water, granite
countertops throughout, color tv w/ cable,
ceiling fans, custom furniture, extra large closets, fully equipped kitchen, all new appliances, living room, dining room, garden w/ hammock, centrally located & close to all shopping, dining and cultural offerings.
Copan´s best vacation rental. Contact: http://casacafe@hondutel.hn, http://casadecafe@mayanet.hn

Leslie’s Place
BED & BREAKFAST INN + INTERNET

Colonia Palmira, Distrito Hotelero,
Frente a Plaza San Martin,
Residencia 452

PBX: (504) 220-7494, 220-5325, FAX (504) 220-7492
E -mail: services@dormir.com http//: www.dormir.com

Leslie’s Place
Aparthotel + Internet
Colonia Tepeyac 1167
Corporative Monthly Rates

Furnished Rooms
Private Bathroom
Full Kitchen
Telephone
Cable T.V. And A/C
Wireless Internet
Common Area
Garden
Parking Lot
Laundry
Fax

PBX: (504) 220-7494
E -mail: services@dormir.com

Honduras Shores Plantation

Caribbean Beach Club
Pool, Restaurant and Bar
Cabañas and Houses For Rent
A/C, Cable T.V.
24 Hours Security

San Juan, Tela. Tel: (504) 448-0342
415-3105
http://resort@hondshores.com www.hondshores.com

For Rent

San Pedro Sula For Rent
Two bedrooms for a single person, clean, secure, convenient location. Lps. 3,500. Contact: 984-3217 or send mail to : Chieko Cano, P.O.Box 5, Siguatepeque, Honduras

Apartment For Rent
For an executive located in Col. Florencia del Norte, private security, garage. Hot water, telephone line, furnished or unfurnished. Electricity, water and private security included in price. Price $350.00/month.
If you are interested please contact:
Mr. Ochoa Phones: (504) 358-5432, 232-4594, or e-mail: froyochoa@yahoo.com

Office For Rent
Located in Florencia del Norte, private security, area: 50 mts. 2, bathroom, telephone line, parking space, Price $350.00

If you are interested please contact:
Mr. Ochoa Phones: (504) 358-5432, 232-4594, or e-mail: froyochoa@yahoo.com

For Sale

Bar and Restaurant for Sale
For sale by not being able to care of. Restaurant now open for public, well location near the Valle de Angeles Park. If you are interested please contact us!! Tel: (504)766-2124 and out of the area (718) 4922338. Price: $10,500.

For Sale

Siguatepeque, Spring like all year, two places on 2+ acres each, both with a large house and small house for employee, fruit trees. water, electric, all weather road just off major hwy. short distances from town. $65,000 each If interested contact gttucker@hondutel.hn

For Sale
Perfect for residence or business. Located in beautiful Lake Yojoa, 10.5 acres, plain terrain, beautiful view, in front of the Lake and Interoceanic Concrete Highway, electricity, plain domain title, fenced, planted with Honduran Mahogany, Laurel and Cedro.
30 minutos from San Pedro Sula
Tel (504) 441-0298, Cel: (504) 946-4656 E-mail: industriasware@gmail.com

Beautiful House for Sale in the Best Town of Tegucigalpa

Located in Col. Lomas del Guijarro, excellent location. Six bedrooms, studio, living room dining room, big kitchen, terrace, garage for four cars, one apartment with living room, kitchen, dining room, ceramic floors in the entire house, it has everything you want!!! Perfect for a bed and breakfast or any business. If you are interested contact me to: hontweekadmon@multidata.hn or andrea_gutierrez@hotmail.com. Phone(504) 232-2300.

Advance Rent a Car
La Ceiba:441-2929
San Pedro Sula: 552-2295
Tegucigalpa: 235-9531
info@advancerentacar.com
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Many more ads in classifieds!

Police and ministry in conflict over new law

Louise Wallace
Honduras This Week

Courtesy of the Ministry of Security
Police officers receiving their diploma at the National Police Academy.

Police representatives met with members of Congress this week in order to reach a compromise on the controversial new Police Law, which the Ministry of Security hopes will be ratified in the near future. The law, devised by Minister of Security Alvaro Romero, would signify both a major restructure in power, diverting authority from the police force itself to the Ministry of Security and a controversial purge of its members in order to combat criminality within the force. The police, many of whom do not welcome these changes, have felt excluded from the legal process, and the new law has become a point of conflict between the two institutions.By Louise Wallace

Commission working to stop market abuses

Anette Emanuelsson
Honduras This Week

Anette Emanuelsson/Honduras This Week
The newly installed Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Competition is currently investigation the
discounts given by pharmacies.

Fuel, sugar, cement, milk, eggs, credit cards, pharmacies, and basic grains. Those are some of the sectors where there is a lack of competition. Honduras’ only two cement companies have divided the territory between them. The seven sugar producers all sell their products at the same price. And recently, the local newspapers wrote about a one lempira increase in the price of any brand of milk.By Anette Emanuelsson

Conference on investment opportunities in Central America and the Caribbean

Alex Jones
Honduras This Week

OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) will host an international investment conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, next May 15th to 17th. The conference comes with the intention of encouraging U.S investment in areas of Central America and the Caribbean and expects to be a sellout event. It will be an opportunity to hear presentations by leading investment experts, U.S businesses currently investing in the region, financial institutions
operating in the region, and U.S government officials.By Alex Jones

Honduras vs. Nicaragua at The Hague

James Bodden
Honduras This Week

Courtesy of the ICJ
A maritime delimitation case between Nicaragua and Honduras is currently being heard at the International
Court of Justice in The Hague.

A panel of seventeen judges has begun hearing the Caribbean maritime delimitation case disputed by Honduras and Nicaragua at the United Nation’s highest court. In 1999 Managua filed suit with the International Court of Justice asking them to determine the Atlantic Ocean border between the two nations. Since then, the neighboring countries have been preparing legal arguments for this judicial confrontation.By James Bodden

week review

EDITORIAL

HTW

US Foreign Aid Policy and Budget Update

Surveys have shown that the citizens of Honduras are Unsatisfied with the performance of the police force; they feel that there are important problems that are not receiving due attention from the authorities. Fortunately, there are plans to reform the Police Law and according to the Minister of Security Alvaro Romero, Honduras should have an improved and efficient police force within five years.Full Editorial

Making the traffic lights work

Courtesy by the White House/Paul Morse
George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Oscar Berger and Wendy Widmann de Berger wave to the audience during the arrival ceremonies at the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura
in Guatemala City.

President Bush spent this past week touring Latin America, sometimes shadowed by President Chavez of Venezuela, repeatedly mentioning that this administration has doubled foreign aid to Latin America and the Caribbean, from $860 million a year to $1.6 billion. Yet the tour and the new initiatives have received little attention in Washington; foreign aid watchers were busy unpacking the administration’s Foreign Operations request for the financial year 2008 (FY 2008) which was released in February. The budget and appropriations process promises to be especially challenging this year given ongoing foreign aid reform. To its great credit, the Bush Administration has requested an increase for the International Affairs budget for the 6th consecutive year to total $36 billion, approximately $20 billion of which is for poverty-focused development.Full Editorial

BUSINESS WEEK IN REVIEW

Institute of Tourism preparing for
holiday season

Alex Jones
Honduras This Week

Roatan
Courtesy of the Institute of Tourism
Portable toilets will be placed on the beaches of Roatán (photo), la Ceiba, Tela, Omoa, and Cedeño.

The public beaches in Honduras will have porta-loos this Semana Santa. The Honduran Institute of Tourism (IHT) will, once again, be distributing the “basic infrastructure” to the sandy coasts of, among other places, Roatan, Cedeño, Punta Sal, Tela and Le Ceiba. This years 70 articles will come with a bill of L.220,000 , to be picked up by the institute, and will be in use from the 4th to the 8th of April in what Cesar Cáceres of IHT calls “the biggest tourist event in the Honduran calendar.” By Alex Jones

Roatan

JUST HEARSAY, BUT RELIABLE HEARSAY

When we asked the ship’s crew as to why their giant cruise ship docked here unexpectedly on a Sunday, we were told they re-routed their people to Roatan because on their last visit to Puerto Rico a small tour bus full of ship passengers was stopped on an isolated road by a lone bandito. Then it seems, as the people were being herded of the bus, an ex United States Marine overpowered the would-be crook and “broke his little neck.” Everyone finished their day tour and left the country. Now there are concerns by that government so the cruise line sent the next voyage to Roatan where there are no problems of that nature. Hurray.By Don Pearly

Copan Update

Reading the national daily papers in Honduras on a regular basis is one great way to get a feel for what’s going on in front of and behind the scenes. All too often, of course, the news tend to focus on gloom and doom with a healthy dose of crime stories and full color pictures of homicide victims splashed right on front.By Howard Rosenzwieg

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Courtesy of Pierre Boucher, www.lavoile.com
Bernard Moitessier aboard his ship.

In December 1968, man slipped our planet’s orbit for the first time and headed towards the moon. Apollo 8’s mean speed during that trip was around 24 thousand miles per hour. Earth’s circumference, at the equator is 24,901 miles. At that speed, Borman, Lovell and Anders would have taken a little over an hour to girdle our planet.By Jorge Agurcia Fasquelle

.............................ART

WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Mujeres en las Artes. One of the strongest artistic movements in Tegucigalpa. Mujeres en la Artes Leticia de Oyuela constantly sponsors workshops, exhibitions, conferences, art shows and community events in the city. For the complete schedule, log on to www.muaartes.org.hn or contact Veronica Romero at 222 3015.Full Calendar

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