As of December 21 Delta Airlines will fly every Saturday non-stop between New York's JFK and Guatemala City.
The route will be operated by a Boeing 737-700 with capacity to carry 124 passengers.
According to the company's website, the flight's departure from New York is scheduled for 8:30 am, while from Guatemala City the flight will depart at 2:00 pm
The Colombian company, Conconcreto, has announced an investment of $25 million to build the project.
The new bus terminal will have capacity to serve two million passengers a month, and will be built by Conconcreto and the company Servicios Para Centrales, originally from Guatemala, which will provide the remaining 50% of the investment ($25 million).
In the past four decades great advances have not been made in the problems of water distribution, solid waste management, land use and transport.
Nine municipal administrations have presented action plans for solving the problems facing Guatemala City, but most have ended up as just that, plans.
"The current municipal authorities, in conjunction with the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), produced a study in 2008 called "Perspectives of the Urban Environment: Geo Guatemala City" in which a diagnosis of the city’s problems was given and a solution offered for each of them. It stressed that with population growth, the horizontal extension of urbanisation, the socioeconomic inequality in the greater metropolitan area, there would also be an increase in territorial imbalances.
The complex will also have space for 300 banks, restaurants and shops.
In order to ease congestion of traffic coming from the East, a bus terminal will be built, which will be able to receive 2 million passengers per month.
Buses coming from that area will not have to go into the city, helping to improve traffic conditions in the capital, especially in rush hours.
The Spanish group won the tender to build and equip a new Hospital called Villa Nueva.
The hospital will be located in the southern district of Guatemala City and the estimated time for construction of is six months, said the Vice President Rafael Espada.
According to an article in Siglo21.com.gt "After two years of problems with licenses and permits, it wasn’t until 2011 that a tender with the construction company was finalised which will result in the formal beginning of work next year. The work will be carried out using a loan granted by the Inter-American Development Bank. "
The Ministry of Infrastructure tenders overlay works for streets and avenues.
According to tender documents the work will be completed in two phases. Phase one will include an estimated area of 120.810 square meters and phase two a 101.845 square meter area.
Authorities estimate for works to be completed in six months and interested bidders should submit their offers by March 31st, 2011.
There is no more space to build in the municipality of Guatemala, reason for which authorities are promoting "different density," i.e., taller buildings.
There are very few metropolitan areas where there is still room for growth. Green spaces are decreasing and the streets are becoming narrower. Many of the residential developments are already moving to the adjacent municipalities, especially in Santa Catarina Pinula.
The work, Interamericas World Financial Center, is currently in the excavation phase and will be completed by the middle of 2011.
Prensalibre.com reports: "The investment for this building is estimated to exceed $30 million (Q234 million), said Jose Sanchez Gongora, the project designer and coordinator, to the Prensa Libre daily.
The office and commercial building will have two towers with 18 floors and 7 basements.
Starting today the accord regulating construction types and use of the ground in the Municipality of Guatemala will come into effect.
According to elperiodico.com.gt, "Accord 30-08, published in the Government daily on 30 December, has 135 articles and one chapter with the regulations establishing the requirements that establishments that are open to the public must meet, such as bars, churches, discotheques, or the sale of alcoholic drinks, etc."
The Elevated thoroughfare project by businessman Juan Fernando Letona could increase the number of cars on the road.
This was the conclusion by Enrique Godoy, president of Urban Proposal, and Francisco Rodas, a consultant for the United Nations Development Program.
Rodas points out that the project by Letona is interesting and can be joined with the municipal projects of the Anillo Periferico (Outer Ring) and the Transmetro, as a solution to the congestion problems.
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