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Monday, April 15, 2013

Sinking in a sea of garbage

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Tegucigalpa floods: Take hills, garbage-blocked ditches and drains, add rain I’ve been wondering about garbage-per-kilometre as a devel...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

The children's education fund: Even really stupid commitments should be honoured

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Martyn Brown raises an interesting point about the NDP pledge to kill a really stupid piece of public policy the Campbell government put in...
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Monday, April 08, 2013

Vote for our musical Cuso volunteer video

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This is utterly shameless, I admit. Cuso International had a contest, inviting volunteers around the world to submit videos about the exper...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

If a government can't provide licence plates... Part 2

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A little over a year ago, I wrote about the Honduran government’s baffling inability to get licence plates into the hands of drivers. I ...
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Monday, April 01, 2013

Do-it-yourself gated communities and police in Honduras

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Gated communities are different in Honduras. New subdivisions in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, the two big cities, tend to be built...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

It's school deworming time in San Pedro Sula

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After more than a year in Honduras, I remain in a state of near-constant amazement. San Pedro Sula is the country’s largest city, with gl...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Lib MLA: 'Why would you rent from somebody who didn’t support you?'

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“If you contact every MLA in this province... find out if they don’t rent from supporters.”  I’ve been surprised this story and interview...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

La Moskitia: The road less travelled for a reason

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Part of the regular route to La Moskitia (Jody Paterson) Tourists don’t much go to La Moskitia. The vast rainforest in southern Hondu...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Liberal MLAs should be ashamed of role in scandal

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The sordid, bumbling ethnic outreach scandal has sealed the Liberals' fate in the coming election. It has also finished Christy Clark...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Racing through jungle rivers in the night

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Sweeping through a narrow jungle river at high speed, in a long, narrow crowded boat, as a searchlight picks out trees crowding the banks...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

They occupied the church, and why that's a good thing

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I went down to check out the church occupation in the main square today, as it entered its fifth day. The Catholic church is the dominant...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

On the road to Tomalá, and the miracle spring

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So there I was in Tomalá, having coffee with the mayor, perched on a couch in a dark living room, bags of newly harvested coffee stacked al...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Passing the hat - or plastic bottle - to raise ransom money

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I wrote this almost two weeks ago, but hesitated in posting. I’m a visitor in Honduras, and reluctant to appear judgmental about my hosts...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

When home is the most dangerous place for women

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Honduras, like most of Latin America, has a problem with domestic violence. I’ve been working through a research report, trying to do a S...
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