Sources: BBC
Thirteen people, including popular Garifuna musician Aurelio Martínez, are killed and five others are rescued when an Aerolínea Lanhsa Jetstream 41 crashes into the Caribbean Sea shortly after takeoff from Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport in Roatán, Bay Islands Department, Honduras. 2025-03-17
Honduras reports five suspected cases of the new mpox clade. 2024-08-21
Ten people are killed when a bus falls into a ravine after crashing into a bridge near Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 2023-12-5
Gunmen open fire inside a nightclub in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, killing four people including Said Lobo, son of former President Porfirio Lobo Sosa. 2022-07-14
A riot at a maximum security prison in El Porvenir, Atlántida, Honduras leaves at least 16 inmates dead, according to Honduran authorities. The riot comes just two days after another riot killed 18 inmates at a prison in the town of Tela. 2019-12-22
The Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority announces that it will file a complaint to the United Nations after Honduras' recognition of the disputed city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Palestinians see East Jerusalem as the capital of the future State of Palestine. 2019-08-29
President Donald Trump directs the United States Department of State to cease aid for El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. This apparently reverses the regional compact agreement Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed on Wednesday with these countries and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's congressional testimony of the same day. 2019-03-30
The United States will end the temporary protected status program (TPS) for more than 300,000 refugees from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Many of the refugees have already left for Canada, where it is easier to get asylum. 2017-11-4
Senior prison officials are suspended and an investigation is opened into the cause of a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, in which over 350 inmates died. 2012-02-16
Fourteen people are killed by gunmen at a soccer field in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. 2010-10-30