Saturday, September 5, 2026 — Morning Edition

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)