Sunday, November 8, 2026 — Evening Edition

Garífuna groups camped outside Honduras's Supreme Court demanded an end to what they call a racist hate campaign and disinformation spread on social media by businessmen in the Tela Bay area.

José Darío Cruz Zelaya, who became Education Minister on November 3, collected nearly L44,000 (about $1,760) a month through October for two teaching posts at the Abraham Lincoln institute, shut since 2014, with authorities saying he had been reassigned but offering no record of any work.

Defensores de la Paz en Tela (DEPAT) is organizing a public demonstration in Tela on November 9 to press the government to act on territorial disputes, illegal occupations, and property rights, demanding legal solutions and judicial security.

Members of Congress say Honduras should withdraw from international human-rights treaties if they stand in the way of lowering the age of criminal responsibility, a change the lawmakers want folded into planned criminal-code reforms.

Congress approved a change to the Energy Justice Law allowing companies with ownership ties to serve together on the Market Control Office (OCM), clearing an obstacle that had kept state utility ENEE off the ten-member board that oversees Honduras's electricity sector.

The pension fund for executive-branch employees said it is paying all benefits as normal and that its recent purchase of preferred shares—just 2.2% of its diversified portfolio—poses no risk to retirees or contributors.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

Honduras's state supplier is keeping medium cartons of eggs at 95 lempiras (about $3.80) at 110 outlets and will start delivering by truck to eight neighborhoods in Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela this weekend to make them easier for shoppers to get.

Steep real estate prices in and around San Pedro Sula are blocking affordable-housing projects, pushing social-interest apartments (45–50 square meters, L1.2–1.4 million, or about $48,000–56,000) out of the urban core and shifting supply to outlying towns such as Cofradía and Choloma.

Infrastructure Minister Aníbal Ehrler announced work on 106 kilometers of roads in the northwest, including stabilization, widening, and safety improvements to keep them passable year-round.

Congress is reviewing a bill that would set up a legal framework for organ and tissue donation and transplantation, including a National Transplant Center, a provision for non-related donors, and a registry of donor intent on national ID cards.

Josué Nehemías Cruz, 11, from Santa Bárbara, has been discharged from a San Salvador hospital after emergency surgery for a congenital heart condition (dextrocardia) and is expected back in Honduras soon.

The backlog of pending surgeries in Honduras's public hospitals rose 12% between January and September, leaving thousands of patients waiting for operations despite government efforts.

Honduras's National Autonomous University is combining drones, LiDAR scanning, and 3D modeling to study how the ancient Maya read the sky and wove astronomical knowledge into their culture.

Honduras will be the featured country at the tenth International Film Festival of Ciudad Madero in Mexico (November 23–26), with eight Honduran filmmakers showing short films and Carlos Membreño's feature Café con sabor a mi tierra opening the festival.

Pedagógica Nacional beat Motagua 1-0 in Round 14 play on Saturday in Choluteca, ending the defending champions' run with a goal from former Motagua player Marcelo Santos; a thunderstorm forced the match to finish early.

Natanael Martínez, a forward for Honduran club Marathón who emigrated to the United States at 15 and fought through academies and injuries, has earned his first call-up to Honduras's senior national team.

About 900 Hondurans from San Pedro Sula crossed into Mexico through Chiapas on November 7, citing economic hardship and scarce jobs at home, and plan to reach the US border; Mexican immigration authorities broke up two earlier caravans this fall.

Police say a grandfather, his son, and his grandson were killed in a remote part of Guata, Olancho, in what authorities suspect is a family vendetta tied to earlier violence involving their relatives.

Also reported by: La Prensa, TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI), Radio HRN, Infobae – Honduras

Two men identified as César Vargas and Nelson Eduardo were found dead in the Roma community of Jutiapa, with early signs suggesting they were shot by unknown attackers.