Paying attention

Early on, I was struck by the number of little kids here with bad teeth, often with a strange pattern of decay around the edges of their ba...

A new bridge installation didn't go so well in Olancho last month; communities will continue to be isolated in the rainy season I’v...

I've written about Honduras' model city plan several times, most recently here . The idea, championed by the government, was to c...

The freedom to build a bus walkway Blog posts on Honduras can gets a little gloomy.  OK, a lot gloomy. But there are always upside...

Pretty interesting juxtaposition of two stories on the El Heraldo website this week. The cost of the basic food basket in Honduras - the ...

Over at the Gazetteer's .

Some supporters of a plan to build private cities in Honduras have described it as creating "a little Canada" in the country. I...

I'm baffled by the B.C. Liberals' focus on attacking the leaders of the other parties. So far, the efforts have looked amateurish an...

I don't take public positions on what should or shouldn't happen in Honduras, mostly because I don't know anywhere near enough...

So who’s behind the mystery Canadian company ready to put up big money to build a private city in Honduras? The concept’s appeal is cl...

David Schreck draws useful attention to a significant effect of the cancellation of the fall sitting of the legislature. The rules for the...

The CBC report on terrible problems in public housing in Vancouver's core is worth reading here . It's shameful for government to...

When Christy Clark made the long overdue commitment to raise the province's minimum wage, the warnings of job losses came from the usual...

I make it 29 Liberal MLAs who have yet said they will not be running next year. The cabinet shuffle left only two without posts of some kind...

It's time for the media to push back at the epidemic of stupid, self-serving email responses to questions from politicians and governmen...

I've spent a lot of time telling people that Honduras isn't really as dangerous as the news reports make it sound. Yes, it has th...

The Hondurans central bank has put out a tender call for 140 million coins, in four denominations. Which I find puzzling. Coins are little ...

La Prensa Tough choices. Let squatters build wood shanties on the banks of flood-prone rivers, even though they might die in the rainy...

They do look like TV people I was good at understanding how things worked in Canada, or thought I was. In Honduras, I often ...

I had to walk home in the rain last week, because technology’s tentacles had reached Copan Ruinas. I buy fruit and vegetables in the...