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ENEE manager Guillermo Peña Panting said a bill to reform Honduras's electricity system is in advanced legislative stages and aims to attract private investment in generation, transmission, and distribution to address chronic blackouts and improve service reliability.

Congress approved a temporary two-month deadline extension and suspended collection efforts against 2025 election candidates who failed to file required financial reports, with penalties waived if they comply by the new deadline.

The Libre party's congressional bloc has proposed a popular consultation to let Hondurans decide the future direction of ENEE, the state electrical utility.

Nurses, nursing assistants, stretcher-bearers, and support staff at Leonardo Martínez Valenzuela Hospital in San Pedro Sula protested Monday over salary arrears of up to ten months, despite continuing to work regularly since their reinstatement in July 2025 following a wrongful-dismissal lawsuit.

San Pedro Sula's 34th annual Feria Juniana will feature 500 vendors, live World Cup broadcasts, music, food, and entertainment across ten days, with organizers projecting 300,000 visitors and about 150 million lempiras in economic activity.

Copán Ruinas will hold its tenth annual Guacamaya Fest from June 26–28, celebrating Honduras's macaw-conservation efforts and cultural heritage, with 12 red macaws to be released on June 28 as part of a decade-long initiative that has freed over 120 birds.

Of 32 dike and flood-control projects underway across the Sula Valley ahead of the rainy season, only six are finished, 26 are roughly half-done, and several have not started, with the Infrastructure Ministry estimating completion in July.

A congressman has proposed replacing unanimity with simple majority voting and reducing quorum requirements at Honduras's National Electoral Council and Electoral Court to break deadlocks, amid current staffing vacancies and absences that have raised concerns about institutional stability.

President Nasry Asfura declared the state power company's financial losses and accumulated debt the country's chief economic concern, pledging to stabilize operations while keeping it publicly owned and freeing resources for health, education, and infrastructure.

Honduras's merchandise exports grew 7.3% in the first half of 2026 compared with a year earlier, driven by higher volumes of coffee and bananas and improved international prices for gold and recycled products.

The Honduran Olympic Committee named tennis player Natalie Gabriela Espinal Sánchez and taekwondo athlete Derek David Midence Aguilar as flag bearers for Honduras at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo, July 24–August 8, 2026.

Roberto Contreras, president of the Liberal Party's executive council and mayor of San Pedro Sula, asked the Public Ministry to investigate the handling of 42 million lempiras the party borrowed and spent during the 2025 presidential campaign.

The state utility ENEE will cut power across industrial parks, commercial centers, and neighborhoods in San Pedro Sula on June 16 from 8:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. for maintenance work on two distribution circuits serving the Bermejo substation.

A consumer-advocacy group reported that at least 16 staple foods rose in price over the weekend, with beans reaching 120 lempiras (about $4.80) per measure and eggs up to 110 lempiras (about $4.40) per carton, alongside price increases in chayote, potatoes, peppers, and broccoli, blamed on weather, inflation, and Middle East conflicts.

Honduras's Health Ministry extended its vaccination and deworming campaign through June to boost immunization coverage nationwide, as the country reports five confirmed measles cases.

Honduras's state power utility is issuing bonds in the national financial system to raise liquidity and settle accumulated debts to electricity generators, officials say, aiming to ensure uninterrupted power supply.

Police arrested two men, ages 25 and 22, on suspicion of armed robbery with intimidation against a resident of Yoro; officers caught them fleeing the Las Colinas neighborhood shortly after the alleged assault.

An aviation training center at Toncontín Airport in Tegucigalpa says its electricity was cut off, suspending classes for scholarship students in what the organization claims is an irregular eviction process that violates prior agreements and due process.

National Police arrested two members of a criminal gang accused of stealing and dismantling motorcycles in Olanchito, Yoro.

The Ciudad Mujer educational center graduated 91 women—including single mothers, homemakers, and working women from across Honduras—who completed secondary studies through a program designed to serve women unable to pursue education through conventional channels.

The Inter-American Development Bank said it supports Honduras's energy reforms, which aim to fix structural problems in the electrical system and ensure long-term sustainability, and pledged to help with implementation.

Former energy official Guillermo Peña Panting warns that Honduras faces potential loss in international arbitrations filed by electricity-sector investors at the ICSID, citing the current administration's reforms to contracts signed under prior legal frameworks.

Honduras's monthly economic activity index rose 3.5% in the first four months of 2026, driven by stronger agricultural-export sales and increased domestic consumption, the central bank reported.

National Police arrested an active MS-13 gang member in San Lorenzo, Valle, and seized more than 2,900 doses of narcotics during the operation.

Infrastructure crews built over 1 kilometer of stone barriers along the Ulúa River in El Progreso, Yoro, to prevent erosion and protect riverbanks serving roughly 1,700 residents in three nearby communities.

Honduras's Environmental Prosecutor has obtained formal charges against two men for illegal nonmetallic mining extraction in Lepaterique, a municipality in Francisco Morazán Department.

A tropical wave will bring rain to most of Honduras on Monday, according to the risk-management secretariat.

The opposition LIBRE party faction says the government's draft energy reform is privatization disguised as modernization and is calling for a popular referendum, arguing that Hondurans—not lawmakers or private interests—should decide the future of the state-owned utility ENEE.

The Latin American Development Bank (CAF) endorsed Honduras's proposed electricity-sector reform, saying it would modernize the energy system, attract foreign investment, and improve service quality while offering support for implementation.

Honduras's National Risk and Contingency Secretariat will analyze 75 municipalities in the Dry Corridor already under alert due to El Niño-linked low rainfall, evaluating whether to adjust or expand warnings as the critical rainy months approach.