Entries from January 2008
January 31st, 2008 · Comments Off
by Tech. Sgt. William Farrow
Joint Task Force-Bravo Public Affairs
1/30/2008 - SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — More than 250 Honduran soldiers took their first step toward Airborne readiness when they leaped from the back of a U.S. Army helicopter Jan. 24 in a combined training jump with U.S. Soldiers here.
Joint Task Force-Bravo member’s involvement enhanced relations between the two nation’s militaries by supporting the Honduran Army’s efforts in training its soldiers in airborne tactics at their airborne troop headquarters at Tamara, officials said.
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Tags: General Honduras News
January 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Four armed inmates released a captive prison administrator, his secretary and two female guards on Wednesday in Western Honduras, responding to pleas from a priest and relatives of the hostages.
The inmates, who held the hostages for more than a day, gave up on demands for a getaway car and agreed to turn over their weapons and return to their cells, said Wilmer Torres, the spokesman for the Security Ministry.
A Roman Catholic priest and family members of the captors were sent into the prison and successfully convinced the inmates to end the standoff peacefully.
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Tags: General Honduras News
January 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga was granted an honorary award from the Viktor Frankl Foundation for his work in psychology.
Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga is the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and the president of Caritas Internationalis.
The Vienna-based Viktor Frankl Foundation promotes a humanistic approach to psychotherapy. The award recognizes the life’s work of Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga.
Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga completed studies in clinical psychology and psychotherapy at Leopold Franz University, Innsbruck, Austria. He also has doctorates in moral theology from the Pontifical Lateran University, in philosophy from the Institute Don Rua in El Salvador, and in theology from the Salesian Pontifical University.
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Tags: General Honduras News · Human Interest · Politics in Honduras
January 19th, 2008 · Comments Off
Digicel announced on Tuesday that it had achieved significant growth in 2007, ending the year with more than six million customers, a total investment exceeding US$1.9 billion across the region and new business operations in Guyana, Suriname and El Salvador.
“Digicel’s progress in 2007 reinforced our position as the Caribbean’s leading mobile service provider and demonstrated delivery of sustained growth in our current markets, strategically expanding operations in new markets and providing exciting, first-to-market technology innovations to all of our customers,” said Colm Delves, Digicel Group CEO in a Digicel press release datelined Kingston, Jamaica.
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Tags: Honduran Business & Economics
