Partido Time

When I first came to live on Roatan in the mid 80’s national politics was considered by Bay Islanders in much the same way a football game was , Blue ( National Party –Partido nacional ) versus Red ( Liberal Party – Partido Liberal ) ……….” So and So is a big blue ( or a big red […]

Freediver History

The Bay Islands popularly ( mistakenly )are associated with Roatan , Utila and Guanaja ; I say mistakenly because the Wyke – Cruz treaty ( 1859 )refers to the “the Islands of Ruatan , Guanaca , Elena , Utile , Barbarete and Morat “. The remotest and indeed the most isolated of these is Elena […]

The Honduranization of the Bay Islands

As Bay Islanders this past 22nd of April , we recently ‘observed’ ( since it would be inaccurate to say ‘celebrated’)the 162nd anniversary of Queen Victorias official ceding of the Colony of the Bay Islands to the Republic of Honduras. The word in Spanish that the Government uses for this anniversary is the devolucion which suggest that the Islands […]

Black Jesus

I had written down all the numbers for my meager budget for the trip in a spiral bound notebook ( the Escudo Nacional on the front cover,times table on the back )which I had bought for 50centavos at Leonela Bowman’s store . I only had 100lempiras to my name . I needed at least 200 and so […]

Every picture a story

I stumbled across this poor quality photograph a few days ago which I took with my Blackberry    ( remember them ?) phone on New Years eve 2012. It was the control room , the nerve centre of power generation for the whole Island. There are three men sitting around the table. One ( white shirt […]

Welcome

Social media is no longer the place for me to express a thoughtful opinion , recount an anecdote , share some history or some photographs ; it has become as casting pearls before swine in many respects ! My interests and life experiences are many and creative writing being my preferred means of artistic expression […]