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The Permanent Commission of Contingencies (Copeco) decreed Friday "yellow" alert (surveillance) in northern Honduras for 72 hours for rains, although rainfall will affect almost the entire country.

Guatemala: DTM Baseline assessment of irregular migration flows and mobility monitoring in border crossing points within the context of COVID-19, Round 3 - March 2021 Format In recent months the COVID-19 Pandemic, along with the subsequent impact of Hurricanes Eta and Iota on the region, exacerbated the economic and labor crises affecting the Central American countries. Then the change of administration in the United States created among the migrant population expectations of more flexible migr...

Guatemala defines selections for CONCACAF League Guatemala defines selections for CONCACAF League Guatemala, May 25 (Prensa Latina) Gustatoya, Santa Lucia and Comunicaciones will represent Guatemala in the CONCACAF League, local press revealed here on Tuesday. The Luciano team will participate for the first time in an international competition after being crowned champion on Sunday in the final of the Clausura 2021 with a 6-5 aggregate score against favored Comunicaciones. The Cremas, who almos...

Volcanic Gold Mines Inc. is pleased to report that the drilling at the Holly property in eastern Guatemala is progressing well.  Having completed four holes at the La Pena vein zone, the rig has now been moved 600m east along the trace of the Jocotan Fault Zone to test the El Pino vein zone The plan for initial drilling at La Pena and El Pino targets is to test the down dip potential of the vein zones, following up ...

Honduras: MSF scales up response to multiple emergencies Format When the dual disasters of Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit Honduras at the end of 2020, the Central American country was already reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and an ongoing displacement crisis fueled by widespread violence. In response, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has expanded its medical humanitarian operations to meet the deep and growing needs. Reaching out to survivors of violence in Tegucigalpa I...

The St Kitts Nevis Observer An activist from the ruling Partido Nacional (National Party) holds the identification of a woman to register on a list to receive help from the government foe the people affected by the floods caused by hurricanes Eta and Iota, in El Progreso, Honduras March 27, 2021. REUTERS/Yoseph Amaya Reuters- Bags of rice and beans arrived in a tough neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second-largest city, with government aid for poor residents struggling during a cor...

Hurricanes and Covid heap misery on impoverished Central America Issued on: 19/05/2021 - 04:34 Orlando Chavez walks through his kitchen after performing back-breaking work collecting African palm bunches, in El Progreso, Honduras Orlando SIERRA AFP 4 min Quejá (Guatemala) (AFP) Orlando Chavez tucks into his lunch of five corn tortillas and a piece of cheese but admits that "some days I dont eat." The 71-year-old lives in El Progreso, a region of Hon...

El entrenador de Santa Lucía, Mario Acevedo, mostró su orgullo y determinación, pues tras eliminar al vigente campeón, Guastatoya, ahora se enfrentará al plantel más regular del torneo, Comunicaciones.

MSF expands operations to meet the growing needs 13 May 21 People in Honduras are experiencing emergencies within emergencies. Their vulnerabilities are, in many cases, no longer due to temporary circumstances but a more persistent situation. MSF advocates to alleviate suffering in humanitarian crises. This year the organization has already started two new emergency response projects. In 2020, a year of profound turmoil for global health, the humanitarian situation in Honduras became critical d...

By Jude Webber and Michael Stott CAFTA-DR “was seen…as a way to guarantee access to the US market rather than to integrate among themselves," said AS/COAs Eric Farnsworth to Financial Times. Jocsan Avilés Díaz comes from a town called El Progreso — progress — but for him, it was anything but. Unemployment drove him out of Honduras in 2019, bound for the US. “I hadn’t had a job in years,” he explained, still stuck on the Mexican side of the border two y...