Monday, June 15, 2026 — Evening Edition

Congress's Telecommunications Commission is advancing reforms to stop inmates from running extortion schemes by cellphone, including penalties for satellite companies and prison officials who let contraband devices into the facilities.

Former energy official Guillermo Peña Panting warns that Honduras could lose international arbitration cases brought by electricity-sector investors at ICSID, pointing to the government's overhaul of contracts signed under earlier legal frameworks.

A congressional committee approved a bill imposing life sentences and other harsh penalties for killing or attempting to kill police, soldiers, judges, and other security and justice officials in the line of duty, sending the measure to a floor vote.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano and the public-information authority (IAIP) signed an agreement Monday to oversee an upgrade of the legislature's electronic voting system, which officials say will strengthen transparency and restore credibility after Honduras's Congress ranked last in Latin American legislative evaluations.

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

A former head of Honduras's banking commission warned that new US rules requiring those who send remittances to prove legal status could choke the flow of family money—which topped $12 billion in 2025 and has already passed $4.5 billion in 2026—and damage several sectors of the Honduran economy.

The Inter-American Development Bank said it supports Honduras's energy reforms, which aim to fix structural problems in the power system and secure its long-term sustainability, and pledged to help carry them out.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (X)

Crews built more than 1 kilometer of stone barriers along the Ulúa River in El Progreso, Yoro, to curb erosion and protect riverbanks that serve roughly 1,700 residents in three nearby communities.

The Ciudad Mujer education center graduated 91 women—among them single mothers, homemakers, and working women from across Honduras—who finished secondary school through a program built for women shut out of conventional schooling.

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

Police arrested two men, ages 25 and 22, on suspicion of an armed robbery against a Yoro resident, catching them as they fled the Las Colinas neighborhood shortly after the alleged assault.

Police arrested a man wanted on a warrant in connection with the killing of Máximo Martínez in Intibucá.