Honduras LAA Standardizes on Bentley ProjectWise for Managed Environment for National Cadastre
Jun 16, 2004
EXTON, Pa.-- Accurate Cadastral Maps, Linked to Legal Information and Published on the Web, Streamline Property Transfers and Financing to Support Economic Development

Man held in beheading of Hollywood writer, slaying of neighbor
Jun 16, 2004
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police tipped by Hollywood studio guards captured a man who they had just identified Monday as the suspect in the beheading of a 91-year-old screenwriter and the stabbing death of a neighbor in the midst of a phone call with an airline reservation agent.

Guatemala activists seek justice as women die
Jun 16, 2004
GUATEMALA CITY -- At a rate of more than one a day, the mutilated bodies of Guatemalan women are turning up on roadsides and in dumpsters. Some have been decapitated with butcher knives. Others have been strangled or burned beyond recognition. Many have been raped.

Central American summit to be held in Guatemala
Jun 16, 2004
MEXICO CITY, June 14 (Xinhuanet) -- A Central American summit will be held on June 29 in Guatemala to discuss regional integration, Guatemalan authorities said Monday.

San Pedro inaugurates Tourist Information Center
Jun 16, 2004
What was once known only as a travel location for divers from around the world has since become the premier tourist destination in Belize. Last Friday, June 4th, representatives from the Belize Tourism Board (BTB), Belize Rural South Area Representative Manuel Heredia Jr., Mayor Elsa Paz and the San Pedro Town Council came together to honor "La Isla Bonita" at the inauguration of the official Ambergris Caye Tourist Information Center.

Star Trek Meets Private Island in Belize
Jun 16, 2004
Cayo Espanto, a private island off the coast of Belize, is offering guests the latest high tech amenities with a new high-speed wireless Internet system and the Segway(tm) Human Transporter. "We've combined the best of our barefoot style with the latest and most fun technology," said David Benzaquen, president of operations/ reservations at Cayo Espanto.

Miss Honduras sentenced for slander
Jun 16, 2004
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - A court yesterday ordered, then commuted, a sentence of community service against Miss Honduras 2002 for slandering the beauty contest's former organiser.

Going under in Honduras
Jun 15, 2004
"Ahora! Ahora!" shouted the boatman in Spanish. "Now! Now!" I fumbled with my mask and snorkel, uneasy about jumping into the open ocean.

Hidden Guatemala
Jun 15, 2004
Esquipulas, GUATEMALA -- As a little girl, I was terrified of this place. In this colonial town in eastern Guatemala, a woman told me and my sister that we if we turned our backs to the famous sculpture of the black Christ inside the basilica, we would turn into stone.

Ancient tongue, culture fading fast in Honduras
Jun 15, 2004
PUNTA GORDA, Honduras — When Reina Martinez speaks to her 14-year-old granddaughter, she uses Garifuna, the language of her youth in this colorful island village.
But when Cassandra Ballesteros answers, it's not in Garifuna.