Monday, June 29, 2026 — Evening Edition

Honduras's human-rights committee supports the government's electricity reforms but wants legal guarantees that the state-owned national power utility will not be privatized and that the benefits reach every sector, as Congress prepares to vote on the overhaul this week.

The European Union's ambassador said the bloc will give Honduras intelligence networks, training, and tools to tighten border security and manage migration while respecting human rights.

Roatán launched a departmental Child and Adolescent Rights Council, uniting local institutions and organizations to coordinate protection and tackle concerns that include 150 teen pregnancies and 650 school dropouts last year.

With ENEE losing more than L50 million a day (about $2 million) and carrying an accumulated deficit of L120 billion, civil-society groups and small-business leaders are urging lawmakers to pass energy reforms that would split the state utility into separate generation, transmission, and distribution units.

The Inter-American Development Bank says Central American and Dominican economies face mounting global volatility and must build fiscal room, allow more currency flexibility (especially Honduras and Nicaragua), and shore up foreign reserves to absorb external financial shocks.

Alexander Godoy, a STENEE union representative, says a review of Honduras's electricity subsidy aims to steer the benefit only to low-income families while cutting off vacation homes and vacant properties, letting state utility ENEE strengthen its finances and trim costs.

A World Bank report finds digital employment and remote work are growing in Central America but remain limited outside Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, held back by poor connectivity, a shortage of devices, and weak digital skills in most countries.

Honduras's Central Bank issued a public alert about fraudulent websites, calls, and messages impersonating the institution to steal personal and banking data, and cautioned against fake investment platforms that falsely claim official authorization.

A 35-year-old woman went into labor on a bus on the Patuca–Juticalpa route near Cayo Blanco; firefighters provided emergency care and took her and her newborn daughter to San Francisco Hospital for observation.

A mother identified as Darling died in Cortés after a bite from a venomous fer-de-lance, a death highlighted in newly released video footage.

President Nasry Asfura said medical brigades will start Monday in Candelaria, Lempira, and spread to other rural communities, offering consultations and health services to residents who travel long distances and pay high costs to reach hospitals in major cities.

Congressman and physician Carlos Umaña warned that the Health Ministry has confirmed serotype 3 is now the dominant dengue strain, and that those who previously caught serotypes 1 or 2 face more severe illness if infected with type 3.

Honduras's Constitutional Court ruled the Mining Law partly unconstitutional after a twelve-year delay, but legal experts warn that Congress's promised reforms may not actually fix the constitutional defects the court identified.

Honduras's Social Ministry is taking applications through June 30 for a national scholarship program that offers monthly stipends to about 8,000 university students aged 17 to 40 pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees, with a budget of 224 million lempiras (about $9 million).

A tropical wave will bring rain to Honduras this weekend, but forecasters are warning of a harsh canícula — the midsummer dry spell — ahead.

Gabriela Verónica Fleritt, a Venezuelan actress and comedian who appeared on 'Bienvenidos'—a show rebroadcast on Honduras's Canal 5—was killed on June 24 when magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck Venezuela, toppling buildings in Caracas and La Guaira and killing an estimated 1,500 people.

Police arrested four men in Juticalpa, Olancho, accused of drug dealing, cattle theft, and illegal weapons possession; officers seized two 9mm firearms in the operation.

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