General News

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP) – operators of the Guadalajara International Airport – has won a 25-year concession deal to operate the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica – their second airport on the Caribbean island.

At least 29 passengers and crew members were treated for injuries after severe turbulence affected a flight from Guadalajara to Tijuana this week.

Mexicans looking to further their studies in the United States or Canada can obtain more information at two special events planned in Guadalajara in October.

It is unlikely that Guadalajara’s third Tren Ligero (subway) line will be operating before the spring of 2019, Gerardo Ruiz, the federal Transport and Communications Secretary, said on a visit to the city this week to assess the ongoing project.

According to a new study, almost half the women who frequent the downtown historic center of Guadalajara are fearful of being sexually harassed.

Electronics giant Samsung has opened its first branded store in Guadalajara – its fourth in Mexico.

The recent news that Jalisco’s Forensic Sciences Institute (IJCF) had no space to house the large numbers of unidentified murder victims piling up in the state and therefore resorted to using refrigerator trucks to store the corpses, shocked the families of disappeared persons throughout Mexico. 

Students from 21 secondary schools in Guadalajara will be learning yoga in a new program developed by the Jalisco state government in conjunction with the Federación Mexicana de Yoga Deportivo, whose members will lead the classes.