Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The authorities of the National Meteorological Service have informed the low temperatures product of a low pressure system that entered Honduras will continue until Wednesday.

Nevertheless, the temperatures in the north coast will suffer a slight increase of three degrees, according to the Civil Aeronautics Meteorological Service, meanwhile in Comayagua and Tegucigalpa the temperatures will remain low.

COPECO informed of the presence of a low pressure system that does not represent any threats to the country.

The low pressure system is located east of Costa Rica and north of Panama. According to weather reports, this phenomenon could become a Tropical Depression, remaining semi stationary during two days and then dissipated in the same area.

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The current governor for the department of Cortes and vice-president of Congress, Mario Fernando Hernandez, was murdered on Monday in a shooting that took place in Barrio Cabanas of San Pedro Sula.

Marcos Collier, lawyer, also resulted dead during the shooting, both men where in a political meeting with one of the pre-candidates for mayor of that city.

The incident took place on the 15th street of barrio Cabanas, near the Penal Center of San Pedro Sula. The politician was participating in a medical brigade at the Luis Landa School, when he said he had to run an errand and would return promptly.

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The education leaders gave an ultimatum to the government to pay the salaries of over seven thousand teachers that have not received pay in months, if the government does not pay them in the next eight days, they will take over all the schools and stop the internal elections that are scheduled for November 30th.

The education leaders gathered yesterday morning at the Central Vicente Caceres Institute, where they decided to continue with their plan to boycott the primary elections and to hold the school year notes.

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A second cold front is expected to enter Honduras this Sunday according to the National Meteorological Service SMN.

The mass of cold air will be generating considerable decrease in temperatures, strong winds and heavy rains over the north coast of Honduras.

The cold front was getting close to the Gulf of Mexico accompanied by high pressure that will also affect Honduras. The cold front is coming from the Gulf of Mexico and we are expecting it to start affecting the north coast on Sunday with the decrease in temperature, some wind and rains.

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