Paying attention

So why did the NDP lead in the polls evaporate? Sure, the $17 million in taxpayers’ money spent promoting the Liberals was a factor, as w...

Julia Pérez Alvarado and part of her large family On a good day, Julia Pérez Alvarado makes about $6 selling bananas in Tegucigalpa ne...

It’s tough to serve up criticism in a second language. Or it is for for me. I spent a day last week working with four other people on a f...

It’s interesting the way political orthodoxy emerges, without much real evidence. Take two examples - photo radar and irrational tax phob...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

“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...

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

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

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

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...