Understandable. But let him know that in the opinion of this person from North America who has lived on the Honduran mainland for nearly twenty years and visited the Bay Islands frequently over the years, they are indeed absolutely nothing like the mainland. And also, as mentioned above, Utila is even safer than Roatan (where we usually visit). The advisory itself seems to make a tacit exception for the Bay Islands - it's a completely different world, not just in terms of crime etc but in many other ways as well.