Tuesday, November 10, 2026 — Morning Edition

Honduras's National Migration Institute will stop issuing passports from November 17 to 22 to upgrade its system with biometric technology—fingerprint and facial recognition—and real-time links to the national ID registry, aiming to cut wait times and curb identity fraud.

Also reported by: La Prensa

Tegucigalpa's city government plans to turn the abandoned Central Penitentiary into a shelter for up to 500 stray dogs and cats.

The CNBS reported that Honduras's financial system holds a capital adequacy ratio of 14.88%, above the 12.5% Basel III requirement, with liquidity at 38.15% and loan defaults at 2.80%, pointing to stability in the supervised banking sector.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

The country's banks say they have the technical capacity to run an interbank currency market (MID) and can support broader liberalization of foreign-exchange trading if the central bank sets clear rules and maintains business confidence.

The Health Ministry is teaming up with private hospitals, nursing associations, and medical groups to raise vaccination rates and rolling out a new national registry that will track individual doses to flag people with incomplete immunization schedules.

Warming Pacific waters in Honduras's Golfo de Fonseca are driving fish and shrimp into deeper water, cutting catches by 50 to 80% and leaving thousands of fishermen struggling to feed their families, a crisis blamed partly on the 2026 El Niño.

Organizations from Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras are meeting in San Marcos de Ocotepeque from November 9 to 12 for the ninth Central American seminar on watershed analysis and climate-resilient water management, organized and funded by the Switzerland-based Fundación Vivamos.

A Cervantes Institute report finds that only 14% of Hondurans aged 15 to 64 use artificial intelligence, placing the country behind Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, and Costa Rica, even as nearly 20,000 open-source AI programs are now available in Spanish.

Persistent heavy rains across Honduras have left more than 60 Tegucigalpa neighborhoods at high risk of landslides, with authorities urging residents to steer clear of swollen rivers and unstable slopes and to report visible cracks, subsidence, or tilting trees to local officials.

The Organization of American States warns that El Niño 2026–2027 has a 75% chance of becoming the strongest episode since 1950, with central Pacific ocean temperatures already running 2.3°C above normal and threats to water supplies, power generation, and public health across Central America.

The Bay Islands Tourism Free Zone finished a beach-demarcation and rest-platform project in Camp Bay, Santos Guardiola, investing L4.27 million (about $171,000) to improve public space and tourism infrastructure.

Honduras's tourism institute opened public bidding for the second stage of the Malecón Ceibeño project in La Ceiba, aimed at strengthening infrastructure and spurring local economic growth and investment in the Atlantic region.

Honduras heads to the Middle East for two friendlies—against the United Arab Emirates on November 13 in Abu Dabi and Kuwait on November 17 in Kuwait City—to stay active internationally after failing to advance in the Concacaf Nations League.

Nashville SC finished the MLS regular season with a league-record 77 points, going 23–8–3 under coach B.J. Callaghan, with Honduran left back Andy Nájar of Choluteca providing a key assist in the clinching win over Cincinnati.

Four prison officers who sold commissary cards to inmates' families and handled funds for former prison director Juan Carlos Osorto Castillo are now linked to irregularities including unauthorized card printing and overcharging vendors, the National Penitentiary Institute confirmed.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano said security operations targeting crime-ridden neighborhoods will expand nationwide, including San Pedro Sula and Choloma, and must be sustained permanently rather than carried out sporadically.