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Honduran President Threatens to Fire Striking Teachers
By not in system - AOL NewsTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduran President Porfirio Lobo on Sunday threatened to fire teachers if they continue a three-week-old strike that has aggravated divisions caused by a 2009 coup. Teachers who fail to show up in classrooms Monday will be suspended without pay, according to the president's decree, which was read on radio and television stations. If teachers don't appear by April 4, they will be fired. Lobo said he has the power to dissolve the teachers' unions for backing the strike. The protesters oppose a proposed law that would give parents oversight of schools and they say the ...
Small Commercial Plane Crash Kills 13 in Honduras
By not in system - AOL NewsTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- A Honduran airline official says a small commercial airliner has crashed near the capital, killing at least 13 people. Central American Airlines manager Felix Pacheco says the plane crashed Monday morning during a routinely scheduled daily flight. Air Force Col. Ruis Landa says the plane was en route to the Toncontin international airport in the capital of Tegucigalpa. Central American Airline owner Dan Ibanks says the plane left the coastal city of San Pedro Sula at 7 a.m. local time (8 a.m. EST; 1300 GMT) and was scheduled to land in Tegucigalpa 40 minutes later. ...
Andy Najar, Honduras And His Media-Driven National Team Tug Of War
By Brian Straus - AOL NewsAndy Najar has never been a big fan of the press. "When you're a professional, you know that your job is to play but also you have other duties, and talking to the press is one of them. I'm starting to understand that more and more," he told me last fall, toward the conclusion of his rookie of the year season with D.C. United. He said this during a one-on-one interview at RFK Stadium, from which I had been covering soccer for various publications for a decade. In all that time, I had never encountered a player more ill at ease while talking to a reporter, and that included high school and ...
Hurricane Richard Batters Tiny Belize
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BELIZE CITY (Oct. 25) -- Hurricane Richard battered the tiny Central American country of Belize with heavy rain and howling winds after making landfall just south its largest city, threatening flimsy wood-and-tin houses and forcing tourists to evacuate outlying islands. An estimated 10,000 people in Belize took refuge at storm shelters in schools and churches ahead of the arrival of Richard, which weakened to a tropical storm early Monday as it pushed into northeastern Guatemala. NOAA Hurricane Richard headed for Belize after lashing the Caribbean coast of Honduras with wind and rain. The ...
Tropical Storm Richard Soaks Honduran Coast
By not in system - AOL NewsTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Oct. 23) -- Tropical Storm Richard gained strength Saturday, lashing the Caribbean coast of Honduras with strong winds and heavy rain that threatened potentially deadly flash floods and landslides as it headed to landfall in Belize. By Saturday afternoon the storm was passing just off Honduras, where a hurricane warning was in effect. Rain was falling on the eastern province of Gracias a Dios, where floods have been severe in the past. Lisandro Rosales, head of Honduras' Permanent Emergency Commission, said civil defense offices along the coast were preparing to carry ...
Tropical Storm Richard May Reach Hurricane Strength
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(Oct. 22) -- Tropical Storm Richard is expected to strengthen into a hurricane and pound parts of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico through early next week. Life-threatening flooding is a risk in this region, which already has been hard hit during the Atlantic hurricane season. National Hurricane Center meteorologists predict that Richard will pass to the north of northeastern Nicaragua and northern Honduras this weekend before making a direct landfall in Belize or the southern portion of the Yucatan Peninsula later Sunday night or early Monday. Richard will produce ...
Paula Becomes Category 2 Hurricane, Threatens Cancun
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CANCUN, Mexico (Oct. 12) -- A strengthening Hurricane Paula roared toward Mexico's resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday night. The hurricane smashed homes and forced schools to cancel classes in Honduras early Tuesday, then grew into a Category 2 storm with top sustained winds of 100 miles per hour on its way to the Yucatan, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Moving north at near 9 mph, Paula's center was expected to pass just to the east of Cancun on Wednesday morning, and was expected to decrease in forward speed after that, the center said. It said the hurricane ...
Tropical Storm Paula Forms in Caribbean
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(Oct. 11) -- Tropical Storm Paula, the 16th named storm of the Atlantic season, has formed in the western Caribbean. The storm has organized and strengthened quickly and is expected to become a full-fledged hurricane soon. The National Hurricane Center forecast is for Paula to remain in the Caribbean for the next several days, but given the light steering currents over the region, confidence in the details of the forecast track is quite low, according to U.S. government forecasters. Weather Resources:- Get Your Forecast- National Doppler Radar As of 11 p.m. EDT, Tropical Storm Paula had a ...
Matthew Drops to Depression, Soaks Central America
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GUATEMALA CITY (Sept. 25) -- Matthew weakened to a tropical depression Saturday along the coast of Belize, dousing the southern part of the Central American nation and neighboring Guatemala with rain that caused flooding in coastal areas. Guatemalan authorities urged people to stay off the roads as floods hit several towns in eastern and northern Guatemala. Civil Defense operations commander Sergio Cabanas said flooding was reported in Izabal and Peten provinces, and there were concerns about people staying in their homes. "The problem is that people have refused to be taken to shelters, ...
Tropical Storm Matthew Likely to Become Hurricane
By Paul Yeager - AOL News(Sept. 23) -- The 13th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Matthew, has formed in the Caribbean Sea, and the storm is likely to become a dangerous hurricane in the coming days. Matthew will first impact Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, but it may later pose a threat to the United States. As of 11 p.m. EDT, Matthew had sustained winds of 45 mph and was located about 330 miles to the east of the Nicaragua/Honduras border. National Hurricane Center forecasters expect the storm to strengthen steadily, becoming a full-fledged hurricane, perhaps as early ...
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