When Paradise Become Painful
Protecting Roatan’s Hearing, Health—and the Peace Paradise Requires When I lived in the peaceful village of Sandy Bay in the early 1990s, roosters crowed, dogs barked, and occasionally a teenager…
Saving a Vanishing Voice
How the Royal Reader Program is Helping Bay Islanders reclaim their English Heritage. Who?W-H-O!Twenty-three children chant the letters in unison inside a small classroom in Coxen Hole. To a casual…
Tino and Alejo Monterroso – Legendary Dive Masters of the Bay Islands
Long before Roatan became a world-class dive destination, two young islanders were slipping beneath its waves with little more than a mask, fins, and a speargun. Tino and Alejo Monterroso—descendants…
A young island boy with ambitions
He stands at a crossroads in life, having just graduated from elementary school. He has a clear plan and path to follow, but will he make it? Meet a young…
The chased cleaner
You might have encountered them and panicked. The first time I saw them, I used bug killers, which left a scene reminiscent of the "Highway of Death" during the Gulf…
