( April 15, 2026, 1:35 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on April 14 published a tribunal’s decision denying the Republic of Honduras’ request to bifurcate an arbitration brought against it by several U.S. companies that invested in a chartered island city in a Honduran special economic zone and now seek $1.6 billion for the republic’s purported termination of their land-use rights, finding that the objections are too intertwined with the merits for separate adjudication....