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Honduran officials say a new no-drive law is keeping 60,000 cars off the road a day, despite nationwide protests.

The measure requiring residents to leave their cars home one day a week went into effect Monday and is expected to save US$80 million in energy costs.

But it has met widespread opposition, and Tegucigalpa Mayor Ricardo Alvarez is offering free legal service to help fight the US$35 fines.

Honduras President Manuel Zelaya says he’ll ride a motorcycle to work to comply.

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Roatan, emerging as the Caribbean’s newest vacation hotspot, is now home to its largest and most bio-sensitive and upscale resort.

Infinity Bay Spa and Beach Resort opens this week with 55 of its planned 145 luxury villas now complete.

Located in the heart of West Bay Beach, Infinity Bay, the island’s greenest resort, has been designed to protect the coral reef system that curls around Roatan’s shores.

The barrier reef, second in size only to Australia’s, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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The Honduran National Electric Energy Enterprise (ENEE) will distribute two million energy saving bulbs to the population, as part of a governmental plan to reduce energy consumption.

Rixi Moncada, ENEE manager, said that by means of that project, two energy saving bulbs will be distributed to every consumer for free.

With this initiative, ENEE and the Honduran Executive expect to save more than 7 million dollars a year and eliminate buying energy from thermal enterprises.

Moncada said the measure is complementary to others applied in the public offices to keep reducing the gap between the incomes and expenditures of ENEE, without increasing tariffs.

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Pedro Landa likes Canadians, but not what the country’s mining companies are doing to his people and their land.

The community development leader from Honduras made a quick visit Sunday to St. Peter the Apostle Church and Pro-Cathedral of the Assumption as part of the annual Share Lent educational and fundraising campaign.

His intent was to alert parishioners of the damage being caused by greed.

“We need to educate consumers on the real price of gold, because for one ring mining companies contaminate 18 tons of earth,” Landa said through an interpreter during the 9 a.m. worship at St. Peter the Apostle.

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