General News

Twenty-seven hotels and restaurants are participating in Puerto Vallarta’s 19th International Gourmet Festival, which runs from November 14 to 23.

The announcement that the Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura (National Infrastructure Fund or FNI) will become a partner in the Chalacatepec tourist complex – dubbed by Jalisco’s former governor as Mexico’s “New Cancun” – will contribute significantly to the economic regeneration of the region, says Francisco Ayon, president of the administrative committee of the Instituto de Pensiones del Estado de Jalisco (IPE), the pension fund for state workers, another of the investors in the polemic 1.3-billion-dollar project.

The 58th International Fishing Tournament of Puerto Vallarta takes place from November 13 to 16.   There are major prizes up for grabs, including 180,000 pesos for whoever snags the biggest sailfish, another 150,000 pesos in the marlin category, 120,000 pesos for the biggest tuna and 80,000 pesos for the biggest mahi mahi.

The judge who earlier this year jailed a Puerto Vallarta lawyer for the “presumed” extortion of the late Thomas White has found herself at the center of a storm following allegations that she attended a party thrown by the late millionaire’s chief attorney.

Two men from Zapopan were shot dead and another was left seriously injured after their car came under fire in downtown Puerto Vallarta last month.

Just prior to his death, Thomas White had reason to believe that his ten-year ordeal in the Puerto Vallarta prison may have been coming to a conclusion.

Puerto Vallarta will host Engage Mexico, an annual social media conference, at the Sheraton Resort & Convention Center from November 14 to 17.

With the high tourist season approaching, Puerto Vallarta hoteliers have been advised to be alert to the threat of norovirus, the vomiting disease whose season runs from November through March and peaks in January.