Tela

Tela's municipality presented plans for a 1.5-kilometer linear park along a defunct canal, a tourism pier for boats and yachts, and a bike path to improve public spaces and marine-based tourism, though projects remain in design phase pending permits and financing.

The Infrastructure and Transport Ministry (SIT) is driving construction of a yacht marina in Tela, with a shopping center and hotel also projected, in a development officials say will attract domestic and foreign tourists.

Heavy overnight rainfall in Tela, Atlántida, prompted firefighters to evacuate a family as a precaution against flooding, while collapsed storm drains and clogged drainage systems compounded by debris posed ongoing risks.

Authorities in Tela are investigating the death of an unidentified woman found on a beach in the Garífuna community of San Juan on Sunday morning with a gunshot wound; a man admitted to the hospital with a bullet injury the same night is also under investigation.

Honduran police detained one individual found in possession of suspected crack cocaine and powder cocaine in the Mezapa area of Tela, Atlántida.