Sunday, June 21, 2026 — Morning Edition

The National Migration Institute (INM) will halt passport issuance nationwide from 6 p.m. Saturday, June 20, to 10 a.m. Sunday, June 21, for a system upgrade.

Honduras's traffic authority says current penalties—including a 600-lempira fine for speeding—no longer deter drivers, and it wants to expand automated speed enforcement, breath-alcohol testing, and stiffer sanctions to cut road deaths.

Ninfa Flores, who once led Honduras's National Institute of Migrant Workers (INAMI), appeared in a Tegucigalpa court for an initial hearing on fraud and abuse-of-authority charges over alleged omissions that harmed the public administration.

Also reported by: Poder Judicial Honduras, Radio América Honduras, Radio América

A Honduran court has ordered television journalist César Silva to pay 300,000 lempiras (about $11,200) in damages to a Venezuelan man over a confrontational 2019 encounter, a case Silva says was dismissed under the previous administration but revived after the Nationalist Party returned to power.

The Oil Administrator Commission says Honduras could see further fuel-price cuts within two to three weeks if international markets hold steady, citing easing Middle East tensions and progress on Iran-related peace accords.

Investors defrauded by Koriun Inversiones—an unregulated platform that promised returns in five months and collapsed after six years—are being summoned to register and coordinate legal action at an urgent assembly in Choloma on June 21.

Honduras's merchandise exports reached $3.61 billion in the first three months of 2026, up 11.5% from a year earlier on the strength of coffee, apparel, bananas, and palm oil, according to an Inter-American Development Bank report.

Honduras's fisheries authority struck agreements with the fishing industry to resume lobster operations in the Bay Islands and let 109 vessels fish while their license renewals are pending, and it set up a working group to study unifying the closed seasons for lobster, conch, and sea cucumber.

A 2025 gender-gap report from Honduras's banking regulator shows women hold more savings accounts and certificates of deposit while men dominate checking and basic accounts, pointing to distinct financial habits by gender.

The head of Honduras's renewable energy association said Friday that private generators have no plans to seize assets of state utility ENEE and are focused on their own projects under the reformed power-sector rules.

Edgar Aguilar, an energy analyst at the ASJ (Foundation for the Study of Applied Law), says Congress's failure to move an energy reform bill poses a direct fiscal risk to Honduras as the state utility ENEE keeps racking up multimillion-lempira losses.

The first shipment of new John Deere graders and tractors arrived at Puerto Cortés from Brazil on Friday under President Nasry Asfura's program to strengthen all 298 municipal governments in Honduras.

Also reported by: Once Noticias, SIT — Secretaría de Infraestructura y Transporte (X), Radio América Honduras

Roatán Electric Company (RECO) is correcting electricity bills for December 2025 through May 2026 after rate adjustments ordered by the electrical regulator; depending on the gap between the original and corrected amounts, some customers will see credits and others charges.

Honduras's Social Security Institute has launched a program to shrink its surgical waiting list, completing 143 procedures so far in San Pedro Sula, where more than 3,000 patients await surgery; it says it is purging outdated records and hiring private firms to expand capacity.

A 22-year-old woman from Dulce Nombre de Culmí in Olancho has died of severe dengue caused by serotype 3, after falling ill in early June amid active virus transmission across several regions.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (X)

A forestry engineer warns that an El Niño arriving earlier than usual, from June through September, will shrink water supplies for drinking and power generation, hurt bean and corn planting, and raise the wildfire risk across Honduras.

The National Autonomous University of Honduras gave a new supplemental exam to 220 applicants for sought-after health careers—medicine, dentistry, nursing, and others—to tighten admissions standards and ensure candidates meet academic requirements.

FIFA has assigned Honduran referee Said Martínez to officiate England versus Ghana on June 23, making him the first Honduran to referee two World Cup matches, with compatriots Walter López and Cristian Ramírez as assistant referees.

Also reported by: El Heraldo, Once Noticias, HCH

The Honduras Football Federation has signed Kevin Gyamfi González, a 15-year-old center back from Espanyol's youth academy in Barcelona, whose father is Ghanaian and mother Honduran, as part of its international talent recruitment program.

Anti-narcotics police arrested a person in Catacamas found with 32 packets of suspected cocaine, an additional ounce, drug-preparation gear, and cash during operations against small-scale drug networks.

Carlos Alberto Arriaga, 52, a produce seller at the El Rápido market, was killed by shotgun fire Saturday morning in the Las Peñitas neighborhood; police have disclosed no motive and named no suspects.

Also reported by: El Heraldo, HCH

Women's rights activists warn that femicides in Honduras are increasingly tied to gang turf disputes, with women killed to send a message rather than in cases of domestic violence.

Detectives arrested a man in San Antonio, Comayagua, carrying four packages of suspected marijuana, 36 doses prepared for sale, a firearm, and drug paraphernalia.