Saturday, September 5, 2026

Wagner Vallecillo, president of the Supreme Court, called on civil-society watchdog Carlos Hernández to bring authorities the evidence behind his recent claims that businesspeople and investors pay to secure favorable court rulings.

Nicolás García, a commissioner of banking regulator CNBS, warns that scammers manufacture urgency and dangle unrealistic returns, and he urges consumers to confirm CNBS authorization and never share their banking credentials.

President Nasry Asfura pointed to the crisis at the state electricity utility, calling its cumulative losses of 118 billion lempiras (about $4.7 billion) a central challenge for his administration.

State utility ENEE has scheduled maintenance outages across the Central District, Cortés, and Santa Bárbara on September 5, hitting dozens of neighborhoods and businesses for up to ten hours starting at 7 a.m.

A suspension bridge linking remote communities in Guata and Esquipulas del Norte, Olancho, collapsed during its opening ceremony, and the mayors of both municipalities are seeking government aid to rebuild the crossing, which serves more than 2,000 residents and connects them to health services and supplies.

A biomedical engineer who examined the quantum resonance analyzer used at fraudulent clinics in Honduras concluded that the device produces random results with no scientific basis and cannot diagnose disease from a hand placed on a sensor.

Honduras's child welfare agency, Senaf, reports that 104 children are legally available for adoption and 76 cases are underway, as it works to shorten a two-year wait and give priority to Honduran families.

The Honduran Medical College says it cannot investigate fraudulent clinics run by Colombians who issue false diagnoses unless the operators are licensed physicians, leaving enforcement to prosecutors and local authorities.

Lester Abel Martínez, a social-media communicator who ran the Revista Digital Honduras page and its 140,000 followers, has died in Madrid after a brief illness at age 28.

Olimpia beat Platense decisively, with striker Yustin Arboleda turning in a standout performance.

Also reported by: Diez

Erlin Escoto and Aníbal Aguilar, charged in the September 2025 killing of Libre congressional candidate Óscar Bustillo in Yoro, will enter an abbreviated guilty plea on September 8, with prosecutors seeking sentence reductions that would total 19.5 years in prison.

Iván Velásquez, former manager of Koriun Inversiones—a company accused of running a Ponzi scheme—was moved from Támara prison to the Center for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences for medical and psychiatric evaluation, and the court has not said who requested it.

Also reported by: HCH

A gun battle in the Olancho municipality of Guayape killed at least three people and wounded three adults and a child, who were rushed to a medical center in the capital as authorities investigate.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

An assessment by academics, civil-society groups, businesses, international donors, and political figures found that 80% consider the government's anti-corruption effort ineffective, with widespread doubt that any deep structural change is underway.

A court dropped the charges against Arcadio López, Perfecto Enamorado, Antonio Kattán, and Gerardo Galeano, who spent more than a year facing terrorism and assassination accusations built on WhatsApp conversations that authorities said revealed a plot against former president Manuel Zelaya.

Economist Santiago Herrera warns that ending the US Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans could cut remittance inflows by as much as $380 million, threatening the households that depend on them and straining the country's ability to reabsorb returning workers.

Also reported by: Once Noticias

Honduras has again been named a candidate country for 2027 funding from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US-backed program that supports governance and economic development, according to CCIT vice president Enrique Jaar.

ENEE will cut power to several San Pedro Sula neighborhoods from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on September 6 to install metering equipment on a dual-circuit transmission line.

Honduras's civil protection agency and international partners will run a large-scale tsunami drill on October 13 in coastal communities of Atlántida to sharpen emergency coordination and community awareness.

The Bay Islands recorded 84 malaria cases in 2026, a 60% drop from last year, but about 90% are clustered in Santos Guardiola, where local transmission persists despite fumigation, community cleanups, and other prevention efforts.

Designers Roberto Ramírez and Celina Brizuela have created 'Cordelia,' a fashion and jewelry collection inspired by Roatán's coral reefs and Honduran minerals, which will debut on the Runway7 catwalk in New York with backing from Próspera ZEDE.

Honduran forward Romell Quioto scored his third goal for Saudi second-division club Al-Ula in Wednesday's 2-0 win over Al-Raed, extending a strong start to his time in Saudi Arabia.

More than 300 teachers asked to be transferred in 2026 because of threats, extortion, and harassment, part of a nine-year pattern that has displaced over 900 educators since 2017, with Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela accounting for more than half the cases.

Police in Villanueva, Cortés arrested a 40-year-old man accused of sexually abusing his stepdaughter from age 8, including rape starting at age 11, using threats to silence both the child and her mother.