General News

Tech giant Google will be presenting a technology workshop at the 4th International LGBT Business Expo to be held in Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit from June 12-14.

British Ambassador to Mexico Duncan Taylor was on hand at the Puerto Vallarta Airport Thursday to greet holiday makers from the United Kingdom arriving on the first direct scheduled flight from the European island nation to land in Jalisco.

Puerto Vallarta’s annual LGBT event, “Vallarta Pride,” will take place this year from May 22 to 26.

Dallying by insurers representing state public bus company Sistecozome has meant that a U.S. couple in their 80s who were run over by a bus on a Puerto Vallarta street March 19 have had to pay their own hospitalization costs and hire a private jet to take them back to Phoenix, Arizona.

Police have arrested a driver of a school bus in Puerto Vallarta who was transporting 31 children while heavily inebriated. The bus was registered to the municipality and the driver, Alfredo Solis, was a city employee.

A new airline made its debut in Guadalajara last week offering immediate savings on flights to several destinations, including Puerto Vallarta.

During the Easter vacation, Immigration officials at the Puerto Vallarta Airport denied entry to four foreign citizens with criminal records in their home country for sex-related offenses, Jalisco Government Secretary Arturo Zamora said this week.

There are encouraging signs that Jalisco’s cruise line trade is picking up after more than five years in the doldrums.