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The Republic of China government has donated more than US$370,000 to Honduras to help fund water supply projects in the Central American country’s rural areas, according to a report issued Saturday by Honduras-based Radio America.

Accepting the money a day earlier, Honduran International Cooperation Minster Karen Zelaya also appealed to government and non- government organizations worldwide to sponsor projects promoting health and wellbeing for the Honduran people.

The fund is to be used for improving water supplies and sanitation systems in impoverished provinces and several immigrant reception centers in the country.

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Rangers working with TIDE have encountered two incidents where illegal fishing was taking place in the Port of Honduras Marine Reserve. In one of the two separate cases, the rangers were able to capture one of the fishermen who then turned in to authorities. Communication Coordinator at T.I.D.E. George Emmanuel tells us more.

George Emmanuel, T.I.D.E. Communication Coordinator

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Honduras is summoning leaders of Central American countries to a regional summit on climate change.

The meeting, scheduled for May 26-28 in the country’s northern city of San Pedro Sula, about 178.64 km away from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, is designed to evaluate the climate change’s impact on the regional economy and people’s livelihood and to boost cooperation on environmental protection, said a spokesman for the president’s office.

Belize’s prime minister and presidents from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are expected to attend the summit.

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Jan de Nul in Belgium has announced that it has signed a contract worth Euros 8 million and the financing is in place for the extension of Puerto Cortes in Honduras.

Part of the dredged materials for the project will serve as fill for the future container terminal. The works are due to start in the second quarter of 2008.

The company has also recently announced that the GLF consortium of which it is a part has been awarded a US$80 million design construct contract for the extension of La Galeota port in Trinidad for NEC, the national oil company.

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