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Vol. 3 No. 1 $ 4.00 Roatan’s Place in Giant Turtle Takes Utila’s Mrs. Annie Caron Pinnace and Pirate History Flight Reminisces Her Distinctive Voice 0.0007

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February & March 2020 4 • Table of content & Masthead Thirteenth Issue

PERSPECTIVE 6 • Paya-in-Chief Unintended Consequences of Collective Punishment 19 • Jon’s World Honduras In World War I 23 • Straight Talk Marketing Machine IN DEPTH 8 • Feature - History Terror of the 8 26 • Culture “La Morenita” Visits Roatan

PROFILES 18 18 • Island Artists The Soulful Sound of Caron Pinnace 16 • Island Senior A Soft Spoken Utilian 20 • Lyfestyle Socials 24 • Island Happenings A Giant Leap for Turtle

WANDERINGS 28 • Off Island News Off Island Perspective 30 • Calendar Yearly & Weekly Events

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COVER PHOTO: The Catholic faithful of Roatan escort the most revered statue in Honduras, Virgin Suyapa, from Juan Manuel Galvez Airport to the Immaculate Heart of Mary church in Coxen Hole. (Photo by Thomas Tomczyk)

STAFF Editorial Staff Paya Magazine is published Copyright notice: Managing Editor Thomas Tomczyk bi-monthly by Paya Mag S. A. All text, graphics and photographs are Writer / reporter Opening Roatan, Honduras copyright of Paya Magazine. All rights History writer Jon Tompson reserved. No part of Paya Magazine can be PayaMag.com reproduced in any form without written Island perspective writer Keena Haylock [email protected] permission of the publisher. Proofreader Kim Serrao (504) 9764-5968 Editor’s note: Support Staff The editorial content of Paya Magazine is Office manager Opening independent from paid-for advertising. We Graphic designer Gabriela Galeas made every effort to ensure the accuracy of Printer Lithopress Industrial the information at the time of going to press, but assume no responsibility for errors or changes. Thanks to the many people that made the thirteenth edition of Paya Magazine possible: Ana Svoboda, Eva Milakowski, Julian Milakowski, Ing. David Dominguez and Edith Diaz.

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PERSPECTIVE | Paya-in-Chief

­THOMAS TOMCZYK UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT

little noticed law has been making a difference in the Aires and Bogota; These cities have seen the criminals switching op- Roatan Municipality. It is now not allowed by two erations to solo motorcycling and driving in tinted windowed cars. “men” to ride on a motorcycle in Roatan. Women – The law encourage crime amongst women who will be A yes. While the law is supposedly limiting assaults by drafted to drive the getaway motorcycles of criminals. Maybe the men committing robberies on a motorcycle, I found the effect of deprived of motorcycles drivers, will lose a job and will take up the this punishing law on my own. life of crime to maintain themselves and their families? When driv- My hardworking gardener was driving his 14-year old cousin ers caught driving two-men-up inevitably try to bribe their way out on the back of his beat-up, 13-year-old motorcycle. The motor- of a situation and the unjust law corrupts the law-abiding drivers, cycle was stopped by police looking to “enforce” the no-two-men will the policemen realize they are enforcing a senseless law? Motor- law. The young passenger could pass for 12-year-old, and as a minor cycles are an affordable means of transport, of the working class of doesn’t have an ID, but my gardener was too honest for his own the island. They reduce traffic, and if the ride sharing men are now good and admitted the boy was 14. The police confiscated the mo- forced to spend hours on busses and in taxi this will also increase the torcycle, and then informed him he could traffic jams on the island. buy it back, along with his license in 45 days The fact is that the collective punishment for 12,000Lps. Motorcycle drivers effort just doesn’t work. A law abiding, strug- This was quite an ordeal for this hon- gling majority that doesn’t want to migrate to est, hardworking man. My gardener doesn’t must endure the the US shouldn’t be punished for the crimes make much money and works two jobs that of a tiny group and failures of the system. The are inaccessible by public transport on other consequences of the fear, anxiety and expense that this “security” parts of the island. As the price of the fine procedure has caused, outweighs any possible surpassed the value of his beat-up motorcy- collective failure of benefits from preventing crime. cle, he decided to abandon his commuter in But, if you need to have “some new” the police yard. He also had to work an extra the Honduras’ legal motorcycle laws that would make life bet- week to pay off the ransom for his seized li- ter, I have plenty of suggestions. What about cense. system stopping motorcycles that don’t have working The fact is my gardener is far from lights? What about requiring a yearly vehicle alone. There are now around 200-300 confiscated motorcycles in inspection that would be tested at certified? What about checking the parking lot of Roatan police headquarters. These are not stolen the tread of motorcycle tires assuring they are safe to drive? by thieves, they are taken away legally. Just because something is le- There is another post scriptum to the story of my gardener. gal, doesn’t mean it is morally correct. Almost all of the people who Since his motorcycle confiscation he has found a very competent had their motorcycles confiscated come from low-income, hard friend to help him with gardening work. The only thing is he’s a working Roatan families. Yet they fell afoul of the law. 60-years-old man. The fact is not a lot of 12-year-olds are doing hold The motorcycle drivers must endure the consequences of the ups in Honduras and ever fewer 60-year-olds. Yet the Honduran law collective failure of the Honduras’ legal system: its police, its pros- passed didn’t account for the elderly motorcycle passengers. ecutors, its courts and its prisons. “When liberty leads to the loss of After three days, the 60-year-old gentleman had to quit be- order, then the demand for order will lead to a loss of liberty,” said cause he couldn’t afford the time or expense of getting to work on Dr. Stan Monteith. public transport and walking. The devil usually hides in the details. Then there are the laws of unintended consequences. Honduras Sadly, the politicians who pass these laws that create this oppressive is not the first country to face assassins and robbers who use motor- situation only care about the sound bites and don’t really care about cycles and two-man teams. London, Athens, City, Buenos the misery they create.

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IN DEPTH | Feature - History

Pirates meet on Roatan’s French Harbour in 1683 to discuss their rides on Spanish territories. Terror of The Caribbean (Illustration by Gabriela Galeas) Roatan was the Favorite Base for the

In 1683 Roatan hosted the largest meeting of pirates in history; they planned a series of at- By Jon Tompson tacks on Spanish towns and shipping routes. These pirates known as ‘Brethren of the Coast” raided Spanish cities and burned towns, cap- tured and sold slaves and executed hostages, sewing terror from Florida to South America. These defied laws and civility, no one was safe from their greed and cruelty. While many people glorify them, today that loose coalition of pirates and would be called terrorists with behavior surpassing that of the Islamic State. Some of these buc- caneers carried ‘Letters of marque and repri- sal’ that regulate their relationships with their European benefactors and themselves. The Brethren were almost always English Prot- estants, Dutch Lutherans and French Huguenots that saw their Catho- lic, Spanish and French counter- parts as legitimate targets of ruthless treatment. Their actions were the exten- sion of ruthless Euro- pean religious wars in the New World.

A dark and swarthy band of pirates ready to charge if their demands are not met.

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Armed with this valuable permit to at- gathering at French Harbour for the raid and with another 200 men marched over- tack the Spanish, Van Hoorn met up with were almost exclusively Dutch and French, land into the rear of the town and took Grammont at their base in Pétit-Goâve and with only two English captains, George over a hundred horses from the garrison’s sailed in his own triple-decker warship, the Spurre and in attendance. The stables. They attacked the fort at dawn. “St. Nicholas Day,” along with 300 men, rest of captains were Michiel The Spanish were so surprised by to rendezvous with De Graaf on Roatan. Andrieszoon, Jan “Yankey” Willens, Jacob the Dutch cavalry charge on their own Van Hoorn’s ship, the largest op- Evertson, Francois Le Sage, Pierre De horses that they quickly surrendered erating in the Caribbean, had been paid L’Orange, Nicolas Bregeult, Nicolas Bot, without a fight. The sea rovers quickly for with part of a bullion shipment of and Antoine Bernard. They spent over a spread out through the town, herding two million gold livres which the Span- month on the island, careening boats and most of the population into the large ish had paid Van Hoorn to protect on its hunting and fishing, their enforced stay church, to be bartered for ransom. Cap- way from to Cádiz, and which caused by the news from their spies that tain Spurre found the town’s governor, he had stolen once the convoy left port. Don Louis de Cordua, hiding under some By chance, they encountered John straw in a stable, and would later success- Coxen and his ship the “Dorado” off Ja- fully ransom him for 70,000 pesos. maica. Coxen, who had temporarily re- After a week of looting the town, tired from (only for one year!), Was himself under Morgan’s orders to hunt down and capture another Dutch corsair, Yankey Willens, a former cohort The animosity of Morgan, for a reward of 200 English pounds. They explained to Coxen their between Van Hoorn plan to attack Vera Cruz and invited him to join the team, but he demurred, and and de Graaf would they continued towards the Bay Islands. Van Hoorn was so eager to retaliate turn deadly against the Spanish that he diverted his boat to attack Trujillo on Honduras’s mainland. Ochoa, with 1,200 marines and the Ar- Trujillo proved easy to capture, as it had mada de Barlovento, was in Vera Cruz, pre- fewer than 200 men under arms to defend it. paring to sail to to look for de Graaf. There they found two large Spanish As soon as the coast was clear, the Antique map of , Mexico, 1850. (Below): 4 Reales, Spanish Coin from 1683. , Nuestra Señora de la Concepción Brethren departed in five large boats and and Nuestra Señora de la Regla, awaiting a five smaller vessels. Late on the night of May valuable shipment of indigo which was to 17th 1683, Van Graaf boldly sailed into Vera n the morning of April 7, harbored a deep hatred for the Spanish after the Barlovento fleet, off , arrive by mule train from the south. Un- Cruz harbor in the two Spanish-flagged 1683, some 1,200 French being captured on a Dutch merchant ves- along with 120,000 silver Peruvian pesos, fortunately for the townsfolk and the sol- vessels from Trujillo, and, along with Yan- buccaneers and Dutch cor- sel and forced to work as a galley slave and which he shared equally with his crew. diers guarding Trujillo, the boats sat idle key Willens, silently landed over 200 men. sairs gathered for a meeting later to labor on their plantations for sever- De Graaf renamed the second boat and empty. This infuriated Van Hoorn, who Meanwhile, Grammont and Van Hoo- O at what is now known as al years before escaping. De Graaf, known “Francesca” and used her as his own flag- already had a reputation for his arrogance rn moored their boats down the coast, portrait, from the Pirates of French Harbour on Roatan. simply as “The Devil” to the Spanish, was ship for years to come. To keep himself and cruelty towards prisoners, and he or- the series. They met in order to plan an audacious at- so successful in his piratical activities in the and his 200 crewmen entertained, the dered his army to kill the garrison of the Nicholas Van Hoorn in a duel with De Graaf. tack on the heavily defended town of Vera Caribbean that they sent their special, fast, popular De Graaf employed an orches- fort and to murder the entire population of Cruz, ’s largest and most important pirate-chasing fleet, called La Armada tra of musicians, replete with guitars, the town, after which he ordered Trujillo to Atlantic seaport. The Mexican port city de Barlovento, or Windward violins, and trumpets, who lived be torched and burned to the ground. This with a population of over 6,000 people Fleet, under the command permanently aboard the ship. act of insanity caused the Spanish viceroy was deemed impregnable. No attempt had of Andrés de Ochoa In retaliation for this in Guatemala to order Trujillo to be com- been made to take it since almost a hundred in pursuit of him. great insult and loss, the pletely abandoned as indefensible; it would years earlier, when and John Furthermore, Spanish confiscated the not be repossessed by Spain for another 97 Hawkins lost most of their men, and al- was first Dutch-flagged years, leaving it a free port for smugglers. most lost their own lives, while attacking it. now a reformed boat that sailed into Van Hoorn and Grammont then This was the largest and the last con- character assigned Santo Domingo. sailed with their two new prizes to French vocation of The Brethren of the Coast to be an as acting gov- This ship, which be- Harbour. Unbeknownst to either man, held on Roatan, and it was convened at the ernor of . longed to Nicholas Laurens de Graaf and his colleague Mich- behest of Dutch sea rover Nicholas “Claas” Morgan had sent Van Hoorn, contained iel Andrieszoon also had plans to seize Van Hoorn, who had persuaded two of the the 55-gun a valuable shipment of the two cargo ships and were waiting pa- most flamboyant and successful pirates of the “Norwich,” with 900 African slaves to be tiently on Guanaja, careening their boats, the era to accompany him on the mission. 240 men aboard, to hunt sold in Martinique. Van until the cargoes of indigo arrived at Tru- They were Le Chevalier Michel de Gram- down de Graaf in order to Hoorn was so aggrieved by jillo, and were appalled and angered by mont, a French nobleman who had fled appease the Spanish. Four years its loss that he immediately sailed Van Hoorn’s actions. The animosity be- and turned to piracy after killing earlier, De Graaf had turned the tables on to the French-ruled western part of His- tween Van Hoorn and de Graaf would his sister’s lover in a duel over her honor. the Spanish and attacked the boats chas- paniola and demanded and received turn deadly within less than two months. The other leader of the group was ing him, capturing two of their vessels, the from the governor a letter of marquee With and Spain being in a Laurens Cornelis Boudewijn de Graaf, who “Tigre” and the “Princesa,” the flagship of and reprisal against Spanish property. state of peace for eleven years, the men

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Extorting Tribute from the Citizens: illustra- tion of pirates’ taking over a city.

De Graaf learned that another heav- with de Graaf’s former flagship Princesa. ily armed Spanish fleet was soon to arrive Three weeks later Willens would from Cartagena and hastily retreated to use this ship to capture a passing Eng- La Isla de Sacrificios two miles offshore, lish sloop named the James, thus anger- taking his Spanish hostages and over ing the governor of Jamaica so much 1,500 black and slaves and free- that he doubled the price on Wil- men with them. The latter would be dis- lens’s head from 200 to 400 pounds. persed and sold throughout the Carib- De Graaf ransomed the surviving bean, a sad crime which the people of soldiers back to Cartagena. Upon receiv- Vera Cruz never forgave De Graaf for. ing the extortion money, he sent a mes- While awaiting the ransom for their senger thanking the governor for his Spanish hostages to be sent from Mexico Christmas present. With his cohorts, he City, Van Hoorn became impatient; he then sailed back to their main base at Pe- ordered the decapitation of twelve of the tit-Goâve, where he would remain on his hostages, intending to send their heads sugarcane plantation with his family for back to the mainland as a warning. When the next year while plotting his next raid. De Graaf stepped in to prevent the execu- In June 1685 de Graaf returned to tion of the Spanish, a drunken Van Hoorn Roatán to await the passing of the Spanish attacked him with his sword. A duel en- fleet on its way to Guatemala and sued and ended when De Graaf slashed thence to Cuba. Thwarted when the fleet Van Hoorn badly on the wrist, and then was delayed by bad weather, he reconvened ordered him confined to his boat in chains. a meeting of all the Brethren of the Coast on After receiving their ransom, the sea Cuba’s Isla de Pinos (now ). rovers sailed to Isla de Mujeres, off pres- From there he sailed with Michel de ent-day Cancún to split their booty. Lau- Grammont and the entire team who had rens de Graaf, Jacob Evertson, Michiel An- drieszoon, Jan “Yankee” Willens, George Spurre, and shared the equivalent of $30,000 each, while their Fine view of Fortress Truxillo in Honduras depicted during the attack by the Dutch fleet of Admiral men each received 800 pieces of eight, Van Hoorn. worth perhaps $7,000 today. In addition, there were some 1,500 slaves to dispose of. having left behind 90 slaves, who put out companied by a detachment of French sol- Grammont and Jacob Hall took 400 the fire and were rescued by Ochoa. The diers and that the overall command would He withdrew to slaves north to sell in North Carolina; Hall French captains and their crews were be undertaken by the pompously titled would use his profits to retire in Virginia. publicly executed by garrote on the wa- Major Jean de Goff, Sieurde Beauregard. De Graaf, Evertson, Andrieszoon, and terfront, as were 14 Englishmen who had A brutal martinet, de Goff dis- Trujillo,now a virtual Spurre sailed directly to Saint-Domingue participated in the raid and were captured pleased the Brethren so much that they (present-day Haiti) to auction off the re- in a failed attack on Tampico in early 1684. mutinied before the venture got under ghost town maining slaves; over the next four months sail, and instead turned their attention Spurre would drink himself to death there. to another Spanish target, Cartagena, a Meanwhile, Andrés de Ochoa, the heavily fortified citadel surrounded by accompanied him at Vera Cruz and Carta- Spanish commander of Vera Cruz and Ad- 11 kilometers of walls and ramparts. gena—minus Hall and Spurre, who had miral of the Fleet of Barlovento (on the With over a thousand men, they been replaced by the Frenchman Pierre present-day Colombian coast), hell-bent on moored outside Cartagena’s bay for three Bot, who captained La Señora de Regla, capturing “Laurencillo” de Graaf and the pi- weeks while calculating how to infiltrate and the English pirate Joseph Bannis- rates who had raped his town and destroyed Along with Yankey the city’s formidable defenses. Their pres- ter, aboard his ship Golden Fleece—and his citadel, embarked on a two-year mission ence became known to the Spanish gov- a total force of 750 men and 30 boats to to hunt them down. On August 4th, on his Willens, silently ernor, who on Christmas Eve dispatched launch an attack on , Mex- 450-ton flagship, the San José, accompanied a force of some 800 men on three ships: ico. Campeche ranked alongside Ha- by three pursuit galleons of 350 tons each, the 40-gun San Francisco, the 34-gun La vana, Cartagena, and Vera Cruz as one Ochoa had success off of Little Cayman, landed over Paz, and the 28-gun galliot Francesca. of Spain’s most valuable shipping ports. where they captured two ships involved However, the large Spanish ships Forewarned of the attack, the gover- in the raid, Pierre d’Orange’s Dauphi- 200 men were outmaneuvered by the dexter- nor of Campeche, the 50-year-old veteran nand Antoine Bernard’s Prophète Daniel, On August 22nd Ochoa returned to Vera ity of the Dutch captains. The San Fran- soldier Felipe de Barreda, ordered the along with their crews and stolen plunder. Cruz; there he would stay for ten months cisco ran aground on a sandbar, and the women and children to leave the town, tak- A week later, on the evening of August while overseeing the rebuilding of the city. other two boats were captured with all ing with them most of its valuables, while 11th, they chased down Yankee Willens, In October 1683, the remaining on board. Ninety Spanish soldiers were he remained to organize Campeche’s de- who was captaining La Señora de Regla, Brethren of the Coast--minus de Gram- killed in the battle; on the Dutch side, fenses. The first assault group of pirates, ar- one of the cargo ships captured by Nikolaas mont, who was attacking Spanish settle- only 20 men were lost. De Graaf re- riving on July 6th, was repulsed by Barre- Van Hoorn in Trujillo. Willens set fire to the ments in Florida--were offered the op- floated the San Francisco, renaming it the da’s 200 defenders upon landing. However, ship, and then escaped on a smaller vessel portunity to attack Santiago de Cuba by Neptune and making it his flagship; An- the pirates regrouped, infiltrated the town in the smoke, dusk, and confusion, even- the governor of Saint-Domingue. The one drieszo on was given the La Paz, renaming at night, and emerged victorious from a tually making it back to Saint-Domingue, condition was that the raid would be ac- it the Rascal; and Willens was rewarded pitched battle with the remaining Spanish

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militiamen as well as two other detach- to escape after jettisoning all his can- ments of 200 soldiers sent from Mérida. nons. However, the unlucky Pierre Bot, The pirates then stormed Merida, his officers, and six Spaniards sailing un- only to find it mostly devoid of treasure. der his flag were immediately executed. Enraged, de Grammont sent 200 mount- The Englishman was ed French and Dutch cavalry riding sto- as unlucky as Bot. On his way back to Ja- len horses throughout the country in a maica, his boat was intercepted by HMS radius of up to 50 miles from the town, Ruby and he and his men were taken to burning farms and hacienda sand killing , accused of piracy against Eng- two thirds of the province’s population. lish vessels, and sentenced to be hanged. De Graaf then sent two ransom de- Bannister appealed the sentence, and while mands to Juan Bruno Téllez de Guzmán, awaiting a retrial, made a daring nighttime governor of the Yucatán, insisting that he escape with some of his men. They sailed send 80,000 pesos and 400 head of cattle the Golden Fleece to Sabana Bay, Santo Do- to prevent the town from being burned to mingo, where he successfully outgunned the ground. Guzmán refused both notes, the English naval Falcon and Drake saying that the pirates could do what they which had been sent to capture him. wanted, but that Spain, being powerful and Joseph Bannister then fled to Hon- wealthy, would simply rebuild the town. Painting of a brawl involving Morgan’s pirates in Port Royal, Jamaica. duras’s Mosquito Coast, hiding out in an This provoked de Grammont into hang- Indian village before being recaptured ing six of its leading citizens in the town having dumped much of his cargo over- if he would be taken, a cannon blew up and returned to Jamaica. The governor square. He was about to execute six more, board to lighten his ship, De Graaf turned on Ochoa’s flagship, killing several men of the island was so incensed by Ban- including Barreda, when de Graaf inter- and daringly engaged and outmaneu- and severely damaging the superstruc- nister’s disregard for English law that he vened. Finally, having spiked the fort’s can- vered the Spanish warships Santo Cristo ture, making further pursuit impossible. immediately had him hanged onboard A pirate ship attacking a vessel. nons, the pirates sailed away on September de Burgos and Concepción. Though the Ochoa died the following morning the ship in the harbor without trial. 5 and scattered up and down the coast. two pursuit vessels fired over 1,600 can- from a combination of fever and battle Michel de Grammont, aboard his flag- on St. Augustine, Florida. Leaving Roatán, Campeche, Andrieszoon retired from pira- Meanwhile, on learning that de Graaf non shots at the Neptune, luck was on De fatigue, and the chase ended. The disap- ship Hardi, teamed up with Nicolas Brigaut, the two Frenchmen split up at Matanzas cy to live out his life on Petit-Goâve. Yankee was holed up on Roatán, Andrés de Ochoa Graaf’s side. After his rigging was crippled pointed Spanish fleet turned north for making Roatán their base of operations for inlet, the plan being that Brigaut would Willens partnered up with Jacob Evertson, scoured every bay and inlet on the island by Spanish chain shot and it looked as Vera Cruz, giving De Graaf the chance two months while preparing for an attack capture guides and interpreters to assist his old comrade of many years, sailing the in search of the nemesis he had been hunt- them with intelligence before the raid. Princesa, the ship De Graaf had given him, ing for over two years. Unable to find any A British map of Honduras showing all the vessels navigating the Caribbean sea. When Brigaut’s ship ran aground, around the Caribbean while being hunted trace of him, he withdrew to Trujillo, now it was attacked by a much larger Spanish by both the Spanish and English navies, a virtual ghost town, to await de Graaf’s re- force and his entire crew of 40 men was before both men reportedly drowned in turn. When a messenger boat arrived from annihilated. Brigaut himself was captured a storm in the Gulf of Honduras in 1688. Mérida to report that de Graaf was attack- and taken to St. Augustine, where he was Laurens de Graaf was, after Henry ing Campeche, the gravely ill Ochoa set sail hanged at the end of May at the age of 33. Morgan, perhaps the greatest of north on September 8th with five galleons. Michel de Grammont’s luck also finally ran the , which would end Three days later, he espied three sails at the beginning of the 18th century with the 53 kilometers north of present-day Can- introduction of strong Dutch, French, Eng- cún and gave chase, catching up with part lish, and Spanish naval patrols and the elimi- of de Graaf’s heavily laden fleet at Cabo nation of such pirate bases as Roatán, Petit- Catoche and eventually capturing Bot’s Goâve, , Port Royal, Providence, slow-moving , with its crew of 130 and Isla de Pinos. The Brethren of the Coast Frenchmen, over 200 weapons, and 30 would never reunite; their time was over. African slaves taken at Campeche, as well De Graaf, however, would continue to as a sloop, while another sloop was sunk. Joseph Bannister lead a charmed life into his 50s, continu- The Spanish continued to tail De ing daring raids until the end of 1690s. In Graaf for four days until, at Alacrán Reef, was as unlucky March 1693, when he was 39 years old, he married a beautiful woman known as as Bot Anne Dieu-le-Veut (Anne Who-God- Wants), one of the very few known fe- male buccaneers (, Ann Bonny, out. In an attempt to rescue Brigaut, his ship and Jacquotte Delahaye being the others). Hardi capsized in a storm and he drowned Having fallen in love after she chal- along with all of his crew, aged 41. The lenged him to a duel for some slight, they De Graaf returned other Frenchman of the Brethren, François lived together for 12 years. He died either Le Sage, would survive a further nine years in while attempting to start a before being killed while accompanying De new colony there or back on his plantation to Roatán to await Graaf in a successful raid on Jamaica in 1694. in Saint-Domingue. The date of his death Of De Graaf’s three remaining Dutch is given as 1705, making him 50 or 51 the passing of the officers and leading captains, only Michiel years old at the time, slightly younger than Andrieszoon survived along with De Graaf Henry Morgan, who died in 1688 at age Spanish treasure to live into middle age. After the raid on 53 after a heavy drinking bout in Jamaica.

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PROFILES | Island Seniors

Mrs. Annie sits in her chair looking out the front door A SOFT SPOKEN UTILIAN of her humble home. Annie Bodden Looks Back at Her Adventurous Life “We are all in this together, before and today and forever, we are not only just individuals of one massive energy, but we co-create with a higher force. The spirit that moves in all things.”

Some of Mrs. Annie ancestors and family.

orn on July 29, 1928. Annie Elizabeth Bodden is a 21. A letter correspondence followed, and the relationship blos- quintessential, old school Utilian: soft spoken, wit- somed. “There was no kissing, no courting,” remembers Mrs. ty and tough. Her parents used to be farmers and Annie. Finally, a marriage date was set for December 30, 1949. raised cattle in the Utila hills overlooking the Utila Her husband was US Navy World War two veterans. He was B town where all the 1920s hustle and bustle was. One a mechanic and moved to Honduras to work for the Standard of her school teachers was Jim Rose, the brother of the writ- Fruit Company as a head mechanic in their “Taller” – work- er RH Rose author of “Utila Past and Present.” A book from shop. “He was the first Hand radio operator in Honduras,” 1905 describing the island’s history. Mrs. Annie remembers her husband. Mrs. Annie was the oldest of 10 chil- Life was simple, and nature was a big dren. John Alons Bodden was her father, part of it. Sometime the biggest part. “It her grandmother was Hester Diamond almost blew the house down. We were Flynn and her Grandfather was Hester Di- scared to death,” Mrs. Annie remembers amondy Flynn. “We were all family: hap- the 1955 hurricane. “The walls were py, jolly people,” remembers the 1930s cracking. But the good God has helped us.” Mrs. Annie. “The people were poor. The The couple had three children: two clothes you had to sew them yourselves. “It almost blew the boys and a girl. They moved as Stan- Everybody walked, or rode horses.” dard Fruit Company required her hus- The island education was basic, house down. We were band’s skills all over Honduras’ north- but solid and provided a great start- ern coast. Mrs. Annie spent seven years ing point to a person’s life. “I was told scared to death” in Coyoles, another nine years in La never to forget it: “there are five things Ceiba and 14 years in San Pedro Sula. to remember. To whom you speak. How Today Mrs. Annie lives in a mod- you speak. When you speak. Where you est one-story home in Utila Town. A speak. What you speak,” remembers her school days Mrs. Annie. photo of her great-great grandmother: Merceta Ann Wer- Her subjects were taught by a Belizean. “[Honduran] gov- ner, who came to Utila from England via Belize, hangs ernment didn’t want any English to be taught here,” remembers on a wall less than a foot from a well. That well, part of the 1930s Mrs. Annie. Until the sixth grade the education was the sitting room is vital to many homes around her. It’s all in Spanish and taught by mainland school teachers and there PVC tubing supplies water to a dozen of nearby homes. were a few Spanish workers who migrated to the island. Utila “I am a peaceful person raised in a Chris- counted around 300 souls who spoke and thought in English. tian home,” says Mrs. Annie as she sits in her arm- Mrs. Annie ended up meeting her husband when she was chair gazing and smiling out onto a quiet Utila street.

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PROFILES | Island Artist PERSPECTIVE | Jon’s World

[email protected] THE SOULFUL SOUND OF CARON PINNACE By Wilford James ­JON TOMPSON While fighting against her nerves and the fear of singing in public, she made her way to the altar. There, her rendition of “Away in a Manger” left the churchgoers in awe, and that HONDURAS IN was the first time she realized that she could sing. Before hitting Roatan’s music scene, she sang at dif- WORLD WAR I ferent events in her community. “I would sing at wakes, birthday parties, and at church”, she says. “I was the girl who sang at wakes and in church programs”. Caron’s first musical venture away from her familiar surroundings started six years ago. “My then partner, Paul Cleckner and his Bandidos group members would some- times practice at our home,” she says. “During one of those practice sessions, I got to sing ‘Summertime’ and was asked espite ongoing political intrigues, during the out- lize, Guatemala, and Honduras to spy on and compile black- to join them at BJ’s Backyard. Fighting against my nerves, I break of World War 1, I saw Roatán and the rest of lists of German-owned businesses and diplomats. Ironically, his agreed under the condition that I got to sing Bob Marley’s Honduras in a relatively peaceful state, untroubled agents in Honduras had to collect their monthly pay of $25 ‘No Woman No Cry,’ which is like my musical Anthem and by events on the other side of the Atlantic. The from the German-owned Banco de Honduras, the only bank my go-to song when I feel like my show is getting boring,” D she smiles. “That’s how I got started.” banana industry was still young, and the few boats steaming in Tegucigalpa. The “born and raised Island Girl” a phrase Caron Pin- up through the were untroubled by German Morley would also travel over 2,000 miles of Central nace uses to introduce herself before each show, sang at the submarines. Germany had only two long-range U-boats of the American coastline, including the Bay Islands of Honduras, “Music Festival for The Angels” as part of the “April Fool’s” 1-151 class, and these were used to transport valuable rubber, looking for clandestine U-boat sanctuaries. group in 2017, and was invited back the following year. nickel, and silver from the USA. During his time in Central America, Morley and his agents At the 2018 “Music Festival for the Angels,” she met However, as the war escalated, on the 1st of March 1917, would send back over 10,000 pages of information and reports Caron Pinnace on a Roatan Beach. Blues vocalist Jack de Keyzer. “It was nerve-wracking for America began taking the threat of underwater warfare seri- to naval intelligence. Morley would later be acknowledged as me to get on stage. I mean the guest singer was a legend,” ously enough to purchase the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 probably America’s most effective secret agent during the war. she remembers. “They sent me on just before this award- million. This was to preempt a possible German purchase for He would later excavate and largely catalog the objects in the winning artist, and as I made my way to the stage he said, ‘break a leg,’ and after my rendition of Tracy Chapman’s the purpose of installing a naval base there. great Mayan city of Chichén Itzá in the alented and soulful singer Caron Pinnace of Pandy ‘Give me a Reason to Stay Here,’ he approached me again The decision of British Honduras (Be- Yucatán, as well as make several exciting Town has been performing poignant renditions of and said, ‘man I told you to break a leg, but you broke a lize) to send 450 soldiers to fight in the discoveries of other previously lost Mayan songs by some of the most iconic singers of all whole body, ” she recalls with a giggle. war on the Allied side further increased temples and pyramids. Morley has been time, including Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Marley, and Following the festival, she had a show at Beacher’s; in tensions in the region. In response, a plan Honduras also put forward as a model for Steven Spiel- T Tracy Chapman. West End. Jack de Keyzer dropped- was conceived by the exiled Guatemalan berg’s fictional movie hero Indiana Jones. Accompanied by her band mates, in hoping to perform a duet with the General Isidoro Valdez and it proposed to closed all In May of 1917, reports that a Stan- guitarists Timothy Blanton and Alex Island Girl who had impressed him at Heinrich Von Eckhart, the senior German dard Fruit banana boat had been shelled Poitier, known collectively as Caron the festival. “When I got to Beache’s, diplomat, the general spymaster serving in of Germany’s and sunk by a German gunboat on the and the two old sexy guys, the 43 year the crowd was larger than usual, and old has been mesmerizing fans with I thought something was happening,” Mexico City. milk run between La Ceiba and New Or- eclectic music that ranges from reg- she says. “Then I realized they were The “Valdez Proposal,” as it came to consulates leans prompted Honduras’s pro-Ameri- gae to blues, and every genre of music there because of Jack DeKeyzer. We be known, was to muster an army of 5,000 can president, Francisco Bertrand, to cut in between. “I do a little bit of every- “I was the girl who did a duet ‘Stormy Monday’ and it Germans in Mexico, provoke a coup d’état off diplomatic relations with Germany. thing,” says the groovy singer. “I love was amazing!” in Guatemala to oust its pro-American Honduras also closed all of Germany’s all kinds of music, and if you come to sang at wakes and in That collaboration with Jack De president, Manuel Estrada Cabrera. The plan included an inva- consulates including those in Puerto Cortez, La Ceiba, and my house, you might hear a little Otis church programs.” Keyzer catapulted her singing oppor- sion of Belize with an army of Honduran opposition liberals to Trujillo, and expelled its German diplomats. Honduras was Redding, some Bob Marley, and even tunities to another level; most of the establish a U-boat base. Once a pro-German government had put under martial law, and people wishing to travel within the Rancheras” venues around the island wanted her been installed in Honduras as well as in its major ports, then country’s borders had to do so using an internal passport. Caron Pinnace got her first paid to sing at their location. gig at the age of eight, singing for one Caron Pinnace has entertained tire Mosquito Coast could also be used for naval bases. Germany had indeed been using its consulates to coordi- of her uncles and some friends who needed to practice at Bananarama, Infinity Bay, Beacher’s, Tranquil Seas, and Upon learning of these plans, U.S. naval intelligence sent nate espionage networks. Most of these German agents were their guitar skills for their church services. “They used to BJ’s. She currently entertains at Marble Hills Farm, Conch the esteemed Harvard-educated Mayanologist Sylvanus Mor- corrupt and much more interested in lucrative ac- pay me one lempira for my singing, but the real benefit, Fritters, and Coco View. “I feel good about what my music ley to Belize on a United Fruit Company ship. He travelled on tivities with allied ships than in espionage or actual sabotage. which I did not realize at the time, was that I got to prac- is doing for me right now. I dreamed about being this far the pretext of conducting archaeological research in the area. Honduras finally entered World War 1 on the side of the tice and train my voice”, she recalls. and would love to go further, but what I am living right Working as a secret agent from his headquarters in the allies on July 18, 1918. It was the last nation in the world to At the age of ten, while she was fixated on Disney now is a dream,” She says emphatically “I’m doing the thing American legation compound in Tegucigalpa, he would spend declare war on Germany. The threat of U-boats to the banana channel and its musical characters, Caron was asked to sing I love to do and am in love with someone who loves me the next 20 months putting together an espionage ring in Be- companies was now over. at a Christmas program in Pandy Town’s Methodist church. back.”

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PROFILES | Lifestyle

Suyapa’s Visit: On January 7, the statue of Virgin Suyapa, the most revered religious object in Honduras, landed for the first time on Roatan. The Catho- lic community gathered at the airport tarmac to welcome and escort the Virgin Suyapa to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Coxen Hole. Escorting the Virgin: Alejandra Zelaya, Father Nortberto Marroquin, Hilaria Martinez, Adri- ana Pinto, Father Alex Lopez & Father Carlo Magno (Rector of Minor Basilica of Suyapa)

Rocking in Flowers Bay: The Flower’s Bay Big Rock Amphitheater is slowly becom- ing the place for local musicians and small get together. The venue was developed by Vernon Albert, an American expat and businessman, to serve local and mainland musicians and artists. There is now a bar and restaurant on site and the own- ers see the Big Rock Amphitheater hosting art exhibits, school programs, fashion shows, weddings, movie nights and parties. Alfonso Cuzzovaglia, Isabelle Perrault, Luis de la Rosa, Hec- tor Antunez ‘El Barbero’, Lisandro Cabrera, Andrea Magnani, Larry Markowicz, Martin Hedener and Antonio Busiello.

Three Lane Roatan: Roatan’s newest road infrastructure project is the paving 7.62 km road from the airport to Los Fuertes with a bicycle path and two pedestrian walkways that has begun on December 5. The stretch of the road between BIP in Dixon Cove and Col. Santa Maria will consist of 3 vehicle lanes. While the Municipal of Roatan is prepar- ing the road for paving the actual 108 million Lps paving contract was won by El Progresso’ Cordon’s Heavy Equipment (CHE) employing around 65 people, including 10 locals. CHE has been in business since 1995 and has built several national Honduran landing runways and roads. The company is using a 15-cm-thick concrete mixture specifically designed for constructing roads. The cement used in the project is pur- chased at Argos in Comayagua, stone aggregates come from Diamond Rock Aggregates and sand is brought from La Ceiba via Island Shipping. Cordon’s Heavy Equipment builders: Edwin Duanas (loader), Ing. David Dominguez (Chief of the Project), Melvyn Vargas (Factory head), Pablo Borjas (Quality Control), Yenin Aleman, Jonathan Donaire.

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y great grandfather on my mother’s side was ervation. Now that is an immigration control that works. a native of the Cayman Islands. My Father’s While we belong to Honduras, we cannot stop the people have a British last name and were mainlanders from coming over or ask them where they among the first settlers of Guanaja hailing will be staying or what is the purpose of their visit. I M from Grand Cayman. I’ve been to the Cayman know I’m harping about the same issues over and over. Islands a handful of times and it always amazes me the hype The Colombian government owns two small islands that surrounds the place: the global recognition, interna- off the coast of Nicaragua: San Andres and Providen- tional fame, and it being the banking and finance Mecca. cia. The Columbian government is aware these islands My 3-year-old niece was bragging to her fellow day- have limited natural resources and limited jobs, so they care inmates about her upcoming trip to the Cayman Is- do the logical thing and restrict access to them. You may lands for the Holidays. It sounds pretty, it evokes imag- visit San Andres to vacation at any time, or enter with es of white sand beaches and piña coladas. There are the a job offer or as an investor. This is logical, not like our sting rays and picturesque boating and mass influx of people who have no diving activities. My mother tells me place to stay and no job to come to. tales of the Cayman of old and how they We don’t have the infrastructure would import pineapples from us here necessary to even begin to compete in the Bay islands. Their fresh produce with Caymans. They have branched was scarce and there was nothing there. themselves into medical tourism now So how did they come so far so fast We have with their Health City. Here on Roatan, and why we in the Bay Islands, while we we can’t even get our hospital built. have much more to offer, we just have In brief words: the government has gone backwards. Maybe the answer lies an albatross no interest in developing our Islands. in the fact that they are miles away from Why should they care if we rep- the country to which they are tied to. tied to our neck resent less than 2% of the country’s Or perhaps it’s that a developed nation population? Voting wise we are insig- such as the United Kingdom recogniz- nificant. I’m told we also represent es the jewel that Cayman Islands are. very little for them tax wise. They I’m unsure of the answer. The truth would have us believe that the taxes is that the Caymans have left us in the dust. Having no brought in by the cruise ship passengers, airline passen- hills, no water sources beyond a few wells and desalination gers, ferry passengers, real estate sale tax, capital gains facilities, no agriculture. Their biggest island is smaller tax, and security tax don’t represent a significant contri- than Guanaja, yet they have managed to have global appeal. bution to the country’s economy. Well, I for one don’t The Cayman Islands citizens are well cared for and think that is true. I want some transparency and ac- their government works for them. I had forgotten the date countability with these numbers. I want transparency. of my last visit when I arrived at immigration in Cayman I want to know what the actual amount of taxes is over the Christmas break. Their entry system was quick and paid by Bay Islands to Tegucigalpa’s coffers. If we don’t, suggested I had been there last in 2017 on a business trip. who has this information and why can’t we access it? They handle this information at the touch Bottom line is we have an albatross tied to our of a button, while we can’t even stop crimi- neck. The stench of corruption and mismanagement of nals with warrants for their arrest from coming funds reaches across the small stretch of sea that sepa- across on the ferry, or the plane from the mainland. rates us from the continent. If we represent so lit- Cayman Islands require stating who you are visit- tle to Tegucigalpa both financially and democratically ing or name the hotel where you are staying with a res- why not release us? I think we could manage just fine.

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IN DEPTH | Island Happenings

The head of the turtle visible on the roof of West End building.

Workers move the giant, fiberglass flipper of the turtle on top of a four-story building. One of the 16 parts of the turtle is placed on the roof.

A GIANT LEAP FOR TURTLE Victor Carbajal super- vises moving of the turtle World’s Biggest Turtle Sculpture is Moved on top of a Four-Story West parts with a crane. End Building

oatan is now home to the world’s biggest turtle tance of a San Pedro based sculptor Fredin Gomez from sculpture. The Carey Turtle is 96’-6”long and the turtle went from an idea to a land-based metal and commercial building. “They couldn’t secure a permit 46 feet wide and weighs fiberglass sculpture, to a sculpture from the government to get a helicopter here,” said a 18,000 pounds and after sitting on top of four-story building. The turtle moving crew would run ap the unfinished R a precarious project of The man for the job was found stairs of the building, onto the rump to land the turtle building it, cutting ithas by Mr. Victor on the side of the road part onto the roof. Victor personally tied knots around been lifted on top of a four-story- in San Pedro Sula where he would the turtle parts. As the wind would turn the travelling West End commercial building. made life size sculptures of horses turtle limbs, he skillfully and safely managed to elevate The metal-fiberglass turtle was and other animals.Sculptor Fredin it to the roof. first build on the ground then dis- Gomez has transformed the Carey “For me he is scientist. A small man with a big head,” mantled into 16 pieces and, on the “For me he Turtle into metal and fiberglass said about the moving of the turtle Alvaro Flores, a taxi back of a lorry, moved to a parking structure 30 times bugger then the driver from Sandy Bay. “The president will come here lot in the back of a house in Sandy is scientist. live ones. for the opening,” expressed his hope Flores. Bay.The last five pieces: the flippers The moving of the turtle pieces Since late 2019 The symbol of environmental apoca- and the tail were placed on last. The A small man was a challenge. OnJuly 4, 2019 a lypse the giant Caray turtle looks north with a somber turtle was bigger than the build- gusty, rare wind from south east has gaze. “We wanted to bring in focus environmental use ing itself and the extremities are to with a big head” been blowing during the crane op- on the island,” said Julie Woods. With only support of hang out far onto eration. Concerned neighbors were its giant head and some painting the turtle is almost fin- Victor Carbajal and his wife Julie Woods undertook watching the gigantic pieces of turtle anatomy being ished. The construction started in 2014 and the turtle the turtle dram project five years ago. With an assis- lifted over their home onto the roof of a fourth story should be completed in early 2020.

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IN DEPTH | Culture

At the Roatan airport bishop Michael Lenihan oversees placing of the Lady of Suyapa statue on top of a car. (Photo by Ana Svoboda)

Bay Islands and Roatan are a parish that forms the part of the dioceses of La Ceiba, the newest of Honduras’ 10 Right: The island’s dioceses. The idea for the Virgin Suyapa statue to visit the Catholic faithful escort La Ceiba dioceses and Bay Islands came about a year ago the Virgin Suyapa from the Roatan Air- The military guard of honor at the Coxen Hole Church. (Photo by Ana Svoboda) during Honduran bishop’s conference in Tegucigalpa. In 2011, the tenth of Honduras Catholic Dioceses was created port to the Immacu- by Pope Benedict XVI and it’s estimated 400,000 Catholics late Heart of Mary are served by 20 priests. Catholic Church. “LA MORENITA” VISITS ROATAN At 7 pm a solemn Mass was celebrated by his Excellency bishop Michael Lenihan, the head the dioceses of La Ceiba, Roatan’s main Catholic church was filled with faithful. “I The miraculous statue of “Lady of Suyapa,” the most revered symbol of saw people crying when they saw it for the first time. Even faith and “Patroness of Honduras,” is brought to I got a bit teary eyed,” said Ana Svoboda, a Catholic com- munity member and Fiscal of the Bay Islands parish council. the Island for the first time “I think that Maria this night would like that churches with different beliefs would be able to live together in har- By Thomas Tomczyk mony and peace. That there would be peace between Chris- tians, a profound respect for each other’s faith,” said in a n January 7, 2020, Roatan was visited by Hon- ruary 1747 the statue was discovered by laborer Alejandro sermon, by bishop Lenihan. None of Roatan’s protestant duras’ venerated holy statue of Our Lady of Colindres and an eight-year-old boy. The statue is affection- leaders took part in the celebrations. Suyapa, the Patroness of Honduras. At 3pm a ately called La Morenita (the Dear Dark One) and has been Mary, Mother of Jesus is a Catholic and Orthodox Saint, Honduran air force plane brought the statue possibly carved as a devotional item by an unknown art- and the doctrine of Intercession of the saints is held by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. While Anglicans directly from Tegucigalpa. ist. The statue is covered by a dark cloak Right (Below): Receiving of the Virgin Suyapa statue from a flight in O The Virgin holds a special trimmed with golden stars. defended the practice of praying to saints, and Lutheran ap- Tegucigalpa. (Photo by Ana Svoboda) place for the Honduran Armed Forces. By the year 1777 a chapel was con- prove honoring the saints, the attitude about the interces- In 1969, after the 100 hour war between structed to house the statue and a first sion of Christian saints, in the ever splintering 2,000 differ- El Salvador and Honduras, the Virgin of miracle attributed to the Suyapa oc- ent protestant churches vary greatly. Suyapa was declared Captain General of curred in 1796. In 1954, a large Basilica The Catholic, as Eastern Orthodox Churches maintain, the Honduran Armed Forces. was built next to the chapel and now its an III century dogma of Ecclesiamnullasalus or “outside the Several hundred Roatan faithful ac- ‘‘Outside permanent location is the Tegucigalpa’s Church there is no salvation,” are seeking that the protes- companied the revered image from the basilica of Suyapa, a place of pilgrimage tant churches would rejoin the Catholic Church. airport tarmac, through the main street the Church there for tens of thousands of people from all After the mass, an all-night vigil took place at Roatan’s of the island, to Coxen Hole Immaculate across Central America. main Catholic Church. There were rosary prayers, and hon- Heart of Mary Catholic Church. “The is no salvation’’ Pope Pius XI, in 1925, declared orary guards of police and firefighters were changed every statue is here to promote our Catholic the virgin Suyapa to be the Patroness two hours. “I didn’t sleep too much,” said Svoboda. faith and to strengthen our own faith,” of Honduras as “Our Lady of Suyapa,” After a 6am mass on January 8, a procession took the said Ana Svoboda, a Catholic community member and Fiscal and February 3 was chosen as her feast day. Each February blessed statue back to the Roatan airport from where the of the Bay Islands parish council. the statue is taken to places across Honduras. This was the statue was flown to Tela. From there the statue was taken to The XVII century cedar statue, just 6 centimeters tall, first time in history; the statue has visited Bay Islands and every parish in the La Ceiba dioceses: San Juan Pueblo, La is the most revered religious artifact in Honduras. In Feb- Roatan. Masica, Pino and finally in La Ceiba.

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WANDERINGS | Off Island News OFF ISLAND PERSPECTIVE

The Last Paddlefish It took 150 million years to extin- guish the last of the Chinese paddle- fish, a species that swan in schools along the river being an easy catch for net fishermen. Until the 1960s, the biggest and oldest freshwater fish on the planet was common on China’s Yangtze and Yellow Rivers. Pollution, damming and overfish- ing brought the fish to the point of Global Dimming extinction. The paddlefish spent The effect of global dimming has been noticed since 1950s. Now, most of its life in the brackish wa- depending on where you are on the planet, there is between 4% ter river estuaries and in the spring and 20% less sunlight getting to earth’s surface. It is generally it migrated up river and tributaries believed that global dimming has a cooling effect lowering the to spawn. The giant fish was known average temperature on earth’s surface. The theories of global for its speed, size, and prehistoric warming and global dimming causing cancellation in word’s appearance. It reached seven meters temperature change is neither mutually exclusive nor contradic- in length and weighed up to 500 ki- tory. Global dimming using “stratospheric aerosol injection” is lograms. Only two paddlefish have part of weather modification strategies. One prior such example been seen alive since 2000 and now of US military using weather modification was Operation Pop- the International Union for Conser- eye (1967-72) that prolonged the Monsoon season in South East vation of Nature suggests the species Asia during the Vietnam War. is extinct.

Churches Attacked Gatestone Institute reports of west- ern media ignoring or excusing a growing number and scale of attacks on Christian places of worship in Europe. Most of these attacks have been unreported. Gatestone Insti- tute reported around 30 “suspicious fires” in 2019 alone that damaged Self DrivingCars or completely destroyed sometimes “Democratic process” has hit a bizarre landmark. We can soon ancient Christian Churches in Eu- be able to decide by majority vote who gets spared and who rope. In February 2019 nine church- gets killed in case of a deadly traffic accident. To come out with es were attacked in two weeks and this “vehicle morality code” Google Inc. has created a “moral in April, for the first time in 700 machine” and compiled answers from 40 million individuals in years, France’s Notre Dame Ca- 233 counties. The researchers found that morality is divided into thedral almost completely burned three clusters: western, eastern and southern. “Southerners” down. Over the past 50 years much were more likely to sacrifice elderly and children, while “West- of Western Europe has become athe- erners” prioritized girls in strollers, but were ready to sacrifice ist and Islamized and now harbors a homeless old men if a vehicle had to make an impact. The self- deep-seated hostility toward Chris- driving cars have and will increasingly be controlled by ethical tianity. According to Gatestone In- code for the convenience of driverless driving. stitute acts of vandalism in European churches, theft and desecration are most often done by radical femi- nists, radical secularists, Islamists and Satanists. First Human Recycling World’s first human composting facility is planned for Seattle in 2020. The bodies would be laid out in “individual vessel to become clean, usable compost.” “We offer a new form of death care that honors both our loved ones and the planet earth,” said Katrina Spade, founder and CEO of Recompose. After a Kick starter campaign that raised $90,000 Recompose sees itself a revolutionary in the death-care busi- ness and combines g at a cubic yard of soil per person and friends and family members are encouraged to take some for the gardens and trees. At $5,500 a body the cost of “compostation” isn’t maybe revolu- tionary, but certainly competitive. Cremation costs vary from $1,000 to $7000 and a classic burial will set you back $8,000.

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WANDERINGS | Calendar

YEARLY CALENDAR

January 1: New Year’s Day January 6: Epiphany January 25: Honduras women’s day January 31: Atlantis 2020 Roatan Festival February 1: Hondura’s School Year Starts February 3: Our Lady Suyapa’s Day February 14: ARRL DX Contest CW February 19: Wine Whiskers & Wags at Infinity Bay March 14: Seventh Annual Music Festival For The Angels March 17: St. Patricks Day March 19: Father’s day April 5-1: Holy Week April 9: Holy Thursday April 10: Good Friday April 11: Holy Saturday April 12: Sunday Of Resurrection April 12: Arrival Of The Garifunas To Honduras April 14: Day Of The Americas April 22: Bay Island Return to Honduras Anniversary May 1: Honduran Labor Day New Year’s Rockers: May 25: Memorial Day West End on December 31, 2019 was a great place to welcome the 2020. June 11: Student’s Day June 16: Father’s Day Fireworks extraordinaire and Scotty and the band entertained the crowds July 3: Independence Day from a deck of a catamaran at West End’s Sundowners. September 1: Honduran Flag and Race Day September 10: Children Day September 15: Honduras Independence Day September 17: Honduras Teacher’s Day September 28: Honduras Independence Document Arrival Day

Weekly Happenings

Blue Monday: 4-7pm Happy Trivia Night: 7pm with Brion Free Salsa Classes: 7-9pm at Sexy Thursday: 9pm-12am Live Music: 6:30 pm with Scotty Movie Night: 7:15pm at The Sunday Funday: 12pm live music hour! at Blue Resto Bar in WE Sundowners Beach Bar in WE. Kaluu Bar & Grill in West End Live music DJ Flames at Frank’s C at Sundowners in WE Pineapple Grill, French Harbour and BBQ at Barefoot Cay in BB Ladie’s Night: 8pm at Herby’s Movie Night: 7:15pm at The Hideaway in WE. Live Music: 6:30-9:30pm at Brion James & the West End La Palapa: 6-8:30pm food and Sunday Funday: 12pm-5pm at Sports Bar in FH Pineapple Grill, French Harbour Movie Night: 7:15pm at The Bananarama in WB Players: 7pm at Beachers in WE The Brewery in PB Brion James: 6-9pm at Caribe drinks! Music Jam With Patty Mc- DJ: 8pm-11 at Blue Marlin in Pineapple Grill in FH. B.J´s Friday: 1pm The Backyard Live Music: 6pm with The West Happy Hour All Day: food and West End. Tesoro in WB Scott Haynes band: 5:30 pm at Banned at B.J´s Backyard in OR Culla at Infinity Bay in WB Bay Players at Hangover Hut drinks at Blue Resto Bar: in WE. Music Trivia: 7pm Music Jam with Sunken Fish at Tranquil Seas: Sundowners in WE Piano Sets: 6:30-8:30pm with in WB. Island Happy Hour: 4-6pm at Live Music: 12pm Live Music Eddie Nakada at Bananarama 7pm-9pm- Live Music Garinago Nights: 7pm at Paya Bay Summer Dawn at Grand Roatan Live Music: 7-9pm Jensen & The Herby’s Sports Bar in FH in WB Karaoke Night: 6:30-9:30pm Sing Resort in PB in WB with Jensen & The Boys at all night with DJ Tiger Tim James Boys at Splash Inn in WE 2CanDoo: 6pm music mix of 60s Latin Night: 6:30-9pm Music Music Jam: 6-9pm On the Pier at Karaoke Night: 6pm-12am Sing Paint Night: 4pm With Dip & Sip Bananarama in WB Jam with Joel Escalona at The at Bananarama in WB Sunset with Kristofer Goldman at All Night at The Live Music: 6:30pm Live Music & 70s soft & folk rock by Ron at Music Jam: 5-9pm with Brion Roatan at Bananarama in WB SunkenFish in SB Caribe Tesoro in WB Restaurant & Bar in WE Lotus: 6-9pm Live Music with with Lisandro & Luis at Sund- Caribe Tesoro in WB Acoustic Night: 6:30pm Music James & The West End Players at Karaoke Night: 8pm-12am Sing Island Music: 7:30pm with Caribe Tesoro in WB Tommy Morris at Xbalanque owners in WE Pizza Of The Week: 11am-3pm Jam with Brion James at Vintage all night with DJ Tiger Tim James Muddy at Herby´s Sports Bar & in WB Fire Show: 6:30pm Fire Show Pearl Restaurant in WB Live Music: 7pm Delicious BBQ at Blue Marlin in WE Grill in FH Mango & goat pizza at Banan- + Live Music at Coconut Tree Party Night: 6-9pm With DJ Tiger with Paul & Crab Races at Banan- Trico Tuesday: 2pm-4:30pm in WE Karaoke Night: 8pm-12am Sing Live Music: 7pm With Grupo Tim at Bananarama in WB arama in WB Live Music with Patty McCulla at all night with DJ Regis/Otta at Bahia & Fire Show at Infinity arama in WB Leche Con Canela: 6pm Music Live Music: 2-4:30pm Music Sunday Brunch: 10am Live Music Movie Night: 6-8pm movies at Jonesville Point Marina - Trico Bar night and more at Hangover Booty Bar in WE Bay in WB & Grill in JV Summer Dawn: 6:30-8:30pm Friday Wings: 6:30pm Funky Duo with Patty & Luis at Cal’s at San Simon Beach Club in WB Bananarama in WB Hut in WB Cantina in FB Live Music: 6:30-9:30pm with Karaoke Night: 7:30pm Sing all music, food, drinks & more at wings at The Sunken Fish in SB Sunday Funday: 1-4pm Tommy Drink Specials: 6-11pm live DJ 7 Jimmy James at Bananarama Celeste’s Island Cuisine in WB Sunsets & Music: 5:30pm – with Pub Quiz: 7pm Live Music With Morris Live Music at Ginger´s night with DJ Alex at Herby’s Scott Chamberlain at Blue Marlin days a week at Booty Bar in WE in WB Sports Bar & Grill in FH Trivia Night: 6pm All night fun at Angie Rosa at Caribe Tesoro Caribbean Grill in WE Blue Tuesday: 4-7pm Happy Coconut Tree in WE in WB in WE Karaoke Night: 8pm sing all night Paint Night: 4pm With Dip & Sip Island Music: 7:30pm with Live Music: 2-5pm Live Music hour! at Blue Resto Bar in WE Roatan at Infinity Bay in WB Happy Hour & Paint Night: Karaoke Night: 7pm at Kristi’s With Jimmy James at The Jolly at Kaluu Bar & Restaurant in WE Live Music: 7-10pm West Bay Karaoke Night: 7pm Sing all night 5-7pm with Dip & Sip Roatan at Overlook Muddy at Herby´s Sports Bar & Grill in FH Octopus in SB Off the Hook: 7pm Music Trivia Players at Beacher’s in WE at La Palapa at Infinity Bay in WB Ibagari Boutique Hotel in WB Movie Night: 5-9pm Family fun at Off the Hook: 7pm Music Trivia Live Music: 6:30-9pm with Movie Night: 7:15pm The SOL y MAR Beach Club in SB Live Music: 6-8:30pm Music Live Music: 1pm food and w/ Irma Korb at Coconut Tree w/ Chloe Overstreet at Coconut Patty McCulla at Vintage Pearl Pineapple Grill at Pineapple Live Music: 6:30-9pm w/ Tommy Duo with Patty & Luis at Infinity drinks! Music With Scotty Cat in WE. Tree in WE. Restaurant in WB. Villas in FH. Morris at Vintage Pearl in WB. Bay in WB. Kristies OVerlook in FB.