October 6th was the 4th Year Anniversary of the Roatan Bruce Radio Show!

Daily News!

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Here is the Official, Unofficial Roatan Bruce Weather Forecast for today!

Skies are again clear this morning and will remain that way for the entire weekend. There is a weather front trying to make its way up from Panama. It is bringing a lot of rain and stormy weather. It is just approaching the southern part of Honduras now, but I do not think it is going to get here with the strong tradewinds out of the north pushing it back down before it gets to us. Lot's of sunshine is the call for the entire weekend. Highs will be 87 to 88, lows will be 79 to 80. Lower winds out of the east at 15 to 20 mph, meaning we w will continue to have nice cool breezes to keep the feel of the temperatures down as we begin to get warmer and warmer as we start our approach to summer. Relative humidity is at just 75%. Barometric pressure is at 29.83 and rising. Sunset will be at 5:18 am and sunset will be at 6:07 pm.

It should be another beautiful day in paradise. If you are here vacationing on the island, go out to the beaches and enjoy it.

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Daily Uploaded Highlights of the Roatan Bruce radio show.

The Roatan Bruce Show is now offering daily (well not every day) podcasts of the show minus the music. All the local news, weather, activities, events and interviews will now be available for you to download onto your I-Pod to listen to at your convenience...or simply listen at your computer. Just click on the mic and look for the date you want to listen to.

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The Maypole event on Honduran Labor Day was a great success!Wonderful time at the beach at Los Palmas Beach Resort! Great Berties famous BBQ, The Steel Drum Band, The Garifuna danced and sang and Carlene and Dave were wonderful! There were kids demonstrations of Tai Kwon Do and the ballet group of French Harbour. The Volleyball Tournament by the best players on Roatan was great to watch.

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There were games for kids including a bouncer from REMAX. Lorin Starr and The Roatan Women’s Club sponsored the Maypole Event and did an incredible job. The most rewarding was to see what they created! Hundreds of people enjoyed the day from all parts of Roatan. People came from east and west, and all cultures came together and had a peaceful, enjoyable day. Everyone was invited and they all came out! The ladies raised money for Valerie Nelson and Familias Saludables to help them purchase much needed formula for mothers and babies with HIV?AIDS. It was a great day for everyone! Congratulations Roatan Woman's Club for creating this wonderful opportunity for everyone to enjoy their Labor Day holiday!

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2008 Powerade Bay Islands Triathlon was a success!

Everybody was invited, but only some came out to witness a worldclass, international event right here in our backyard. Where was everyone? Where were all the volunteers from local neighborhoods that filled the finish line areas in years past? Where were all the school kids that were so excited and enthusiastic in previous years?

Everyone was invited to come out to West Bay Beach on Sunday. Even with limited radio, banner and flyer exposure, more of you would have come out to see this incredible event by some athletes that will be seen on international television this summer at the Summer Olympics in China. Why didn't you come out? If you haven't been to one before, you will have to wait another year to see it again. If you have been to them before, you know how exciting they can be to cheer the runners in. I announced the event live on the beach. I only recognized a few faces. If you have a good reason why you did not attend, (other than you were somewhere else in the world) please e-mail me those reasons. I would like to know why so few of you were there.

2008 Powerade Bay Islands Triathlon presented two new events!

On Friday, May 2nd at West Bay Beach, lots of people took part in the first Powerade 5Km Family Walk/Run. Many ran the course that will be used by the athletes. Anyone over 15 could have participated. The Kid's Beach Race took place at 5:45 for kids 4 to 14. There was no charge. The run took place on the beach and used the same finish line as the Triathlon. It was a very successful event!

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The Roatan Bruce Show is the only English speaking (non-religious) talk radio programming on the Bay Islands. It is the main source of important, timely interviews and information for English speaking residents and visitors on the Bay Islands and Northern Honduras.

In addition to playing many of the most popular and upbeat Soul and R& B music from the 50's, 60's and 70's, Roatan Bruce hosts top business, community, political and real estate leaders who share important information about the islands and greater Honduras. Roatan Bruce has already interviewed 300 people.

One of the most unique factors about the show is that for the first time, businesses can now promote their products or services to the thousands of English speaking people and tourists on the Bay Islands and northern mainland Honduras on both radio and television.

Honduras Media!

Roatan Bruce Interviews is now a weekly column in The Honduras This Week, Honduras' only weekly English speaking newspaper. Look for the best of the past Roatan Bruce Show interviews and the most important information spoken by the experts themselves on all the most interesting subjects to be written in the columns now and in the coming weeks and months.

Recent News!

Kelcy Warren is the new owner of RECO!
The ENEE intervention has been lifted. Kelcy Warren is now the owner of RECO. He has been doing all he can to help the people or Roatan without actually having complete ownership of RECO in the past! Now he knows RECO is under his directorship! Read all about it on my Honduras This Week columns and look up Kelcy Warren on Google and find the Roatan Bruce blog.

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Free Trade Zone Agreement.

There is a Free Trade Zone Agreement. The official start up date is the 15th of December. Because Guanaja did not take a census, a must to be a part of the Free Trade Zone agreement, they along with Cayos Cachinos will not be a part of the Free Zone. Go to the Zolitor office opposite Bank La Fiese in Mount Pleasent to get your application forms.

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$50 Million Dollar Mahogany Bay Carnival Cruise Line Dock

Ground breaking took place on November 15th for the new $50 million dollar Mahogany Bay Carnival Cruise line port of call to open October 1st, 2009.

April 2008

Wednesday, April 30th. Nora El Goulli is a Doctor of Pharmacy, and the Founder of Medicines for Roatan, a Honduran non-profit organisation which was created in 2007, to provide prescription medicines for the poor in the Bay Islands. Medicines for Roatan celebrates its first year of existence this month. Medicines for Roatan has so far provided 25,000 treatments to the Roatan public hospital. Nora El Goulli will be telling us more about the medicines situation in the Bay Islands.

April 22 - Tony "The Tiger" Lopez - the three time World Boxing Champion, was on the show with Mayor Dale Jackson, The Governor Arlie Thompson and many others who showed up to meet Tony. This great interview will open the way for the island to build a new a sports facility to help keep kids off the streets and into disciplined, organized team sports.

April 16th, Phil Brown - one of Roatan's newest residents and part owner of Cool Beans Coffee Shop in West Bay Beach Mall, recently returned from a 7 week trip to Nepal and India - I recently watched his slides at an Islands Friends meeting - originally intended as a vacation with an old friend, it turned into a personal physical challenge pushing him beyond anything he's experienced before - as well as a spiritual pilgrimage affecting his life greatly.

April 14th - Matthew Harper, the Interim General manager for RECO chosen by Kelcy Warren, was on the show giving an in-depth description of the activities at RECO to deleiver the best service possible in the future.

April 11th - The King Squad - our very own internationally known rap group, chose the show to premier their new CD. It was a great show and a lot of fun.

April 4th - Kelcy Warren, the new major stockholder and soon owner of RECO was a guest at the 106.5 FM studios. The ten minute interview was recorded for airing next week. There were problems recording the interview with the recorder. Please have patience with the quality of the sound. Thanks

April 3rd - Sinthia Solomon and Freddy Fernandez, a representative of D.E.I , the Honduran version of the I.R.S, came on to explain the crazy law created to limit fuel consumption. Crazy because the plan cannot work here on Roatan like it will on the mainland. You have to hear this interview.

March 2008

March 27 - The Commissario Julio Benitez was on the show to talk about security issues during Semana Santa.

We also talked about the problems a few one sided and self-serving reporters from the Phoenix area have caused for our Sisterhood Law Enforcement Project started by the Maricopa County Sherrif's Department. Please listen to this interview to see how damaging a few people can be to ruin it for the safety, security and protection for us in The Bay Islands and all of Honduras. Maybe we should all contact the publisher of the Arizona Republic newspapers to voice our opinions about the awful job of reporting a competing underground newspaper is doing to hurt us here.

March 21th - Mayor Dale Jackson spent the hour talking about many of the most important
issues to people living on the island and around the world who care about Roatan. We talked about many subjects such as repairing the roads, education, health care, RECO and the changes at the garbage dump and more.

Full interview is available.

March 18th - National Police Commissario Julio Benitez talked about the security measures being taken to ensure the safety of everyone on the islands. Also discussed was the biased and self serving, one sided journalism by one or two newspaper reporters in the Phoenix, Arizona area that may prevent the very successful sisterhood training program that has been so helpful to the under tranied, under equipment Honduran police force. We are not sure how those writers can sleep at night trying to sabotage training that could help so many Hondurans for years to come for selfish political reasons.

March 17 - RECO GM Humberto Meza and Italo Tugliani, the lawyer representing Kelcy Warren, the new owner of RECO, were interviewed and shared the latest.

January 2008

January 31st - The esteemed lawyer Italo Tugliani, the man who authored the new "Free Trade Zone" Agreement.

January 29th - Aaron was again on to talk about the Davos World Economic Forum.

Susan Jensen was on the show to talk about World Yoga Day on Sunday, when the entire world did yoga during the same two hours to support a world peace effort at Palmetto Bay Plantation from 11 am to 1 pm.

January 10th - Aaron - Called in from the state of Florida. Aaron has submitted a direct video response to a contest called the DAVOS QUESTION, part of a World Economic Forum taking place in Switzerland with many of the worlds top leaders. He is attempting to improve the quality of life in Central America. The question is “What one thing do you think can countries, companies, or individuals do to make the world a better place in 2008” He believes that a Central AMERICAN Union is the answer.

If you would like to participate and help this cause, do the following until January 23rd. First go to http://www.youtube.com/itwasaaron. You can Click the video and read the description, or you can follow the direct link to the Davos question on my video profile. Type in itwasaaron on the vote/view screen. When the video appears in the middle of the screen, it’s a simple as clicking on the last star or the thumb up, or a thumb down to vote. I suggest that you take the time to read the description to get a better understanding of what he trying to do.

January 7th, 9th. On January 3rd, I had a private, exclusive one hour interview with former President Maduro. It was a wonderful experience. He is a great man and you will be able to hear this up-close interview on the website.

January 4th - Zachary Kaplan from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and Muse America, an organization he started in upstate NY to help school systems in underprivledged areas. He was on the show to tell us about how he can help our Bay Island schools.