Honduras Daily by Location

Authorities in Tela are investigating the death of an unidentified woman found on a beach in the Garífuna community of San Juan on Sunday morning with a gunshot wound; a man admitted to the hospital with a bullet injury the same night is also under investigation.

Honduras will see moderate scattered showers through Tuesday, with a tropical wave entering from the east on Thursday and expected to produce light to moderate rainfall across most of the country by Friday, according to the National Center for Atmospheric, Oceanographic, and Seismic Studies.

Residents in Santa Bárbara, Atlántida, and Lempira are protesting recurring blackouts lasting up to three days, citing damage to appliances, food spoilage, and lack of official communication from the national power utility ENEE.

Yaritza Murillo, 20, and Katerin Oliva, 19, were shot dead and three men were wounded in an armed attack at a home in El Porvenir, Atlántida; the motive remains unclear and no arrests have been reported.

The beach in the Garífuna community of Corozal sustained damage from heavy rains and high waves, affecting a viewing platform and trees.

The director of the UNAH's Violence Observatory reported to Radio HRN that Honduras averages six homicides per day, with Francisco Morazán, Cortés, Olancho, Yoro, Atlántida, and Copán departments recording the highest rates.

Tela's mayor outlined plans to reconstruct the city's coastal cargo dock and build a road linking Tela to Yoro and Colón departments, projects he says will boost the area's economy, tourism, and regional connectivity.

Honduras's disaster agency COPECO has placed the Caribbean coastline and Bay Islands under a Green Alert due to rough seas, while the same alert level remains in effect for the country's 11 departments.

Over 14,100 manzanas of land in coastal Cortés and Atlántida are disputed by invasions that advocacy groups say cost the economy roughly $15 million a month and deter foreign investment.

Henry Medrano, 31, a farm worker in El Porvenir, Atlántida, died instantly when struck by lightning while working on Tuesday; other people were reportedly injured in the same incident but authorities have not confirmed their condition.

The Public Ministry's financial crimes unit (ATIC) and police corruption task force (FETCCOP) are investigating irregularities at the municipal government in Jutiapa, Atlántida.

Police arrested Williams Noé Reyes Izaguirre in Colón as a second suspect in the May 21 massacre of 20 people at an African palm plantation in Rigores, Trujillo; Alexis Molina Mencía, arrested earlier, is believed to have ordered the killings.

Honduras's Special Prosecutor for Tax Crimes has recovered more than L31.9 million (roughly $1.28 million USD) in unpaid taxes from smuggling cases in the northern region.

The Armed Forces will provide free medical and social services on Saturday, June 6, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at three locations across Atlántida, Francisco Morazán, and Comayagua departments.

A magnitude-4.4 earthquake struck off Honduras's north coast early June 2, the second tremor in the Caribbean in less than 24 hours; authorities reported no damage or injuries from either event.

Honduran armed forces have destroyed more than 515,000 coca bushes across at least 25 illegal plantations and nine drug-processing sites in six departments so far this year, including a newly secured crop of 16,500 plants in Colón.

Honduran police detained one individual found in possession of suspected crack cocaine and powder cocaine in the Mezapa area of Tela, Atlántida.

The national power utility announced scheduled maintenance and emergency repairs Friday, June 12, affecting neighborhoods across Tegucigalpa, Comayagüela, and the north coast during different hours, including the National Stadium and major commercial zones.

Armed forces discovered a coca plantation and a makeshift drug-processing lab in the Río Tinto mountain range of Colón department, bringing the year-to-date total to over 500,000 coca plants and nine processing sites seized across six departments.

A proposal in Congress would fund five new heavy-vehicle training and licensing centers across Honduras, addressing a shortage that currently limits such certification to one department.