Thursday, September 3, 2026 — Morning Edition

The Labor Committee opened hearings on a proposal to extend the workplace lactation benefit by 42 days beyond the current six months and to begin counting it only after postnatal leave ends, with unions already consulted and private-sector feedback still pending.

Honduras's Medical College (CMH) has given the government three days to pay more than two months of back wages owed to public-sector doctors and to reinstate dismissed physicians, threatening to step up labor action if its demands go unmet.

A judge formally charged former military chief Roosevelt Hernández after the Journalists' Association complained about a social-media post in which he called several reporters "hired killers" (sicarios), a charge Hernández says amounts to censorship.

Former president Manuel Zelaya attacked Congress's approval of an energy-reform law as a handover of state control to private corporations, arguing it shows how elites and outside political pressure erode Honduran democracy.

Thomas R. Hardy, operations director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, said energy-sector reform and infrastructure links between Honduras's Atlantic and Pacific coasts are essential to attracting American investment and strengthening the economy.

Honduras endures more than 165 hours of blackouts a year—compared with fewer than 9 in El Salvador—costing businesses over $100 million annually, and analysts warn that the new Energy Justice Law's impact will hinge on the institutional capacity to enforce it.

The electricity regulator warns that Honduras could face power rationing next year unless it quickly adds generation capacity through competitive bidding, which it says—not tax breaks—will bring energy costs down.

An undercover investigation by La Prensa found that Medisan, a clinic operating without a valid health license in a San Pedro Sula shopping center, uses fraudulent quantum-resonance devices to diagnose fictitious illnesses and sell fake natural remedies, preying on vulnerable customers with credit cards.

Also reported by: El Heraldo

A woman received an alarming 128-page diagnosis of multiple organ problems from a quantum-resonance machine at the Nueva Med clinic in Tegucigalpa, but routine blood and urine tests at an independent laboratory contradicted the severity of those findings, raising doubts about the device's reliability.

Also reported by: La Prensa

Twenty-eight public-health doctors in Gracias a Dios department, some in remote communities, have gone unpaid for up to eight months in 2026, and at least ten are weighing resignation even as they keep staffing the Puerto Lempira Hospital and outlying clinics.

A motorcyclist died in a violent collision with a truck on National Road 23 near Punta Ocote in Yoro municipality, where firefighters found him without vital signs.

Roatán's municipality is launching a structured training and certification program called Anfitriones del Destino (Destination Hosts) for tourism workers, including beach massage providers, to raise service standards and professionalize the sector.

Tegucigalpa's 15 school districts have mapped out parade routes across the capital for Independence Day: preschool on September 6 and primary school on September 13, covering both urban and rural areas.

Police arrested two young men, including 23-year-old Omar Alejandro Luna Díaz, in a raid in Choloma and seized cocaine and crack allegedly packaged for street sales.

A Honduran court has ordered that the trial of four men accused in the disappearance of American tourist Angie Peña, missing from Roatán since January 2022, be held in closed session, barring the press and public; prosecutors argue the secrecy protects the investigation and, if she is alive, potentially Peña's safety.